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This bank has supported Pride for three decades. Here’s how it happened
The multinational banking giant has been supporting LGBTQ rights since before some of us were born.
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The LGBTQ community finally starts holding corporate ‘ally’ feet to the fire
The National LGBTQ Task Force announced Wells Fargo will no longer be a corporate sponsor, and HRC returned money from Bank of America.
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Pride, consumerism, & the sale of a civil rights movement
A few years ago, I entered my classroom and was about to introduce that day’s lesson when a large poster pinned to the bulletin board caught my eye.
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HRC rejects $325k donation from Bank of America for supporting discrimination
The LGBT rights org is willing to take a hit to protest the banking giant’s role in brokering the fake “repeal” of North Carolina’s law targeting LGBT people.
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Capital Pride fires executive producer for transphobic blog post
Bryan Pruitt made no secret of his conservative politics, but your toes will curl when you read what he wrote about trans people.
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Charlotte Pride sets new record for attendance: 130,000
This was the biggest Pride yet, thanks to out of town marchers and a large local response from LGBTQ allies and HB2 opponents.
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Why is the private prison industry funding LGBT organizations?
All LGBTQ organizations should divest from corporations that are actively benefiting from the caging of our own people in prisons and detention centers.
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Why are pro-equality companies donating to the political party pushing discrimination?
Why are companies like Coca-Cola supporting the Republican National Convention when the party platform calls for more laws like North Carolina’s?
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Wells Fargo lights Charlotte office tower with transgender flag colors
Wells Fargo is not only demanding repeal of North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law, they lit the 48-story Duke Energy Center tower in pink, white, and blue for the International Day of Transgender Visibility.
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Franklin Graham urges boycott of LGBT-friendly businesses for promoting ‘moral decay, Godless lifestyle’
Rev. Franklin Graham is calling for a boycott of gay-friendly businesses, beginning by pulling his ministry’s accounts from Wells Fargo after the bank ran an ad featuring a same-sex couple.