Posted on 05/22/2023 6:59:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As queer Americans face a historic onslaught of anti-LGBTQ legislation, a normalizing of homophobic and transphobic rhetoric from right-wing politicians and a surge of violent attacks, Target’s standout message for Pride Month is simple: “Live Laugh Lesbian.”
The short mantra adorns a pink crop top that is part of the global retailer’s latest Pride collection. Other noteworthy items include a coffee mug that says “gender fluid”; rainbow outfits for pets; a Drag Queen Bird Decorative Figurine; a jumpsuit that simply says “GAY” in massive letters; a tote bag with an image of a woman looking off into the distance and text that reads “Busy thinking about girls”; and a graphic T-shirt with an illustration of a skeleton bending its wrist and saying, “Is he … you know?”
While many major brands will launch similar Pride-themed products in coming weeks, few are likely to rival Target in generating online chatter leading up to and through the month of June, which is LGBTQ Pride Month.
“It’s a sort of universal theme, no matter high-water or low-water, we all have to react to Target and Pride,” said Bob Witeck, president of Witeck Communications, a firm specializing in LGBTQ marketing.
The large online reaction to this year’s collection evoked both delight and eye rolls among LGBTQ Americans.
“I am torn between thinking the Target Pride collection ‘Live Laugh Lesbian’ shirt is either the best or the worst shirt ever,” drag performer Chiffon Dior wrote on Twitter Thursday. “I don’t think there is a middle ground.”
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Every one of those statements is false. Historic anti-LGBTQ legislation? Are we talking about instituting the death penalty for homosexuality? Or going back to criminalizing homosexual conduct? "Normalizing homophobic and transphobic rhetoric"? Like calling a man "he" and a woman "she"? Surge of violent attacks? Where?
Start sewing our own or thrift.
Ewwww.
Shopping at gay friendly Target is kinda like coughing up some phlegm immediately after eating an Oreo.
It looks bad.
Any store that signals homosexual pride, I pass it up for a place that doesn’t shove their perversion promotion in my face.
Agreed. When it comes to supposedly normalizing transphobia, I guess ones like J.K. Rowling and even Martina Navratilova are guilty parties in all of that as well. And not to mention also gay women who have always lived their lives as women and who simply want to meet and date other such women instead of transgenders.
“Gay AF” - Gay AS F***. So vulgar and sinful.
Lol
As strange as rhis might sound to cosmopolitan folks who are connoisseurs and worldly, at 86 I have never been in a Target Store.
Now I never will!
typical leftist histrionics in the face of opposition, multiplied this time by homosexual narcissism
Target is Walmart with an LGBTQ agenda. You can buy the same cheap Chinese-made crap elsewhere without the woke sloganeering.
LOL. Epic pandering.
I doubt gays would even buy this crap.
A “Gay AF” tee shirt? Wouldn’t that be an open invitation to a homophobic azz whupping?
And a tote bag with a picture of a lesbian staring into space, “thinking about girls”?
Wouldn’t most lesbians consider that a little too cringey?
Maybe it’s just me, but the “surge of violent attacks” seems to be inflicted by the trannies on normal, mentally sound people.
Eff Target.
LOL - it’s like they’re trying too hard.
To the point of looking pathetic.
That is maybe the most infuriating lie-packed topic sentence I’ve ever read.
They are twisting child protection laws into “hate.”
They are ignoring the ultra-violent attack of the murderous Hale woman.
Ewwww is right.
TGT has done very well since their pro-queer bathroom policy a few years ago, so its easy to see why they’d do this.
I hope they go out of business, but that is probably never going to happen.
Yo Mattie. It’s your side with the insane trannies who are killing school kids.
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