Posted on 06/17/2024 4:16:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — With Pride Month in full gear, U.S. shoppers can find the usual merchandise many stores stock for the June celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights. But analysts and advocates say the marketing is toned down compared to previous years, and at some chains, there’s no trace of Pride at all.
The more subdued atmosphere underscores the struggle of many retailers to cater to different groups of customers at a time of extreme cultural divisions. This year’s Pride Month is unfolding amid a sea of legislation and litigation over LGBTQ+ rights, especially the ability of transgender young people to participate in sports or receive gender-affirming care.
Against this backdrop, Target reduced the number of its stores carrying Pride-themed products this year after getting backlash in 2023. Nike, which like Bud Light became the subject of boycott calls last year over its marketing partnership with a transgender influencer, also has pulled back after offering Pride collections since 1999. The athletic brand said it won’t have one this year; rather, it said it’s focusing on programming and ongoing support for the LGBTQ+community.
Some brands and influencers who work with the community report a noticeable decline in corporate partnerships. Rob Smith, founder and chief executive of The Phluid Project, a brand of gender-neutral clothing, cited a 25% drop compared with last June in the number of stores carrying his collection.
“I guess they just decided this year, especially in an election year, with what’s going on, just to play it safe,” Smith said.
But he and other advocates see a silver lining. They think the low-key landscape partially reflects a desire by some companies to move beyond one-month expressions of support toward more enduring acts of allyship, such as regularly featuring LGBTQ+-owned brands and models.
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I am guessing that the pall of a potential bankruptcy due to repulsed clients might have led to a more circumspect involvement in these revels.
It’s as if alphabet people have more rights than and can lord it over non-alphabet people.
The LGBT movement is one of those things, like Joe Biden, which benefit hugely from not being seen in public. That’s because when they aren’t in view, the public’s subconscious sees them as more or less the same as the public’s “me.” But when they’re visible, or in the case of LGBT, loud, then the public is thoroughly turned off. The LGBT movement would be more likely to achieve their optimum corruption of society through laws by remaining silent and out of sight. Only appearing, in professional garb, in political offices. Unfortunately, the only thing that maintains them as a “movement” are the frequent, loud, and violent public outbursts and gross displays of what it means to be in the LGBT “movement.”
As an aside, every article should call it sexual multination instead of the cuddlier “gender affirming care.”
Sounds like Daddy took the T-Bird away.
I was in a store yesterday and a woman had on a “pride” dress, all the colors of the mentally ill group. She got a lot of eye rolling from some of us. And yes, this store had “pride” cookies and “pride” cupcakes AND the cupcakes had these little plastic “pride” flags on them and as I stood there in the bakery some older woman opened up a pack of cupcakes and took the flags off the cupcakes and threw the flags on the counter, she said “I don’t want that crap in my house”. It was awesome!
How about getting rid of Black History Month, Pride Month, Juneteenth, and Kawanza. ALL Fake holidays. Posted by a so-called “person of Color”, and not pink.
Whatever happened to
*What we do in the privacy of our own bedrooms is nobody else’s business*?
Keep it there and stop shoving it in our faces.
Perversity Month. I spit in your general direction.
Hopefully, we will be alerted for which stores to ignore. I go to a store to purchase products that I want, not go get propaganda shoved up my Obamahole.
There’s no such thing as “pride month.”
I’ve certainly seen it toned down this year on most of the professional websites I visit.
I think “gay” fatigue is really setting in for most folks, and businesses know it. Plus, who wants to identify with a group who has been murdering children and other innocents with alarming frequency in the past couple of years.
Surprise - people who were molested as children don’t want to be pandered to and have their suffering trivialized in order to sell products.
Hey, sodomites, the world is tired of you. Go back to the closet!
Is that you, Brian Wilson, having fun, fun, fun?
I like to remind people who celebrate Juneteenth that slaves in Delaware were still slaves until Dec 1865.
https://whyy.org/articles/juneteenth-did-not-mean-freedom-for-delaware-slaves/
They do like to show their colors, so to speak. Last month I attended an event at my grandson's school and saw a woman all decked out in "pride" colors: eyeglasses, purse, coat, fingernail polish, and splashes of color throughout her hair. One of the most sickening sights I've ever seen.
Really I'm a libertarian when it comes to issues like this one. I don't care what you do as long as you do it in the privacy of your home.
But I think many people are tired of the agenda. Not with their personal lifestyle as long as they know how to be "discreet" about it.
If you don't understand that that is NOT an option, then you don't know the first thing about the queer agenda.
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