During the Grammy awards last Sunday, the notoriously anti-LGBT restaurant chain Chick-fil-A debuted a new commercial featuring the voice and hit song, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” of Grace Slick, a member of legendary rock bands Jefferson Airplane and Starship. Chick-fil-A has a well-documented history of funding anti-LGBT organizations through their philanthropic foundation WinShape. In…
Fast-food company Chick-Fil-A’s return to Denver International Airport may be in jeopardy because of their anti-LGBT stance. A number of City Council members this week passionately questioned a proposed concession agreement, reports The Denver Post. Councilman Paul Lopez called opposition to the chain at the airport “really, truly a moral issue on the city.” His…
CBS 5 – KPHO Believe it or not, there is a new movement that has been set up to support Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. HuffPost Gay Voices reports that the latest development to stem from Robertson’s homophobic and racist comments in a recent GQ profile and subsequent suspension from A&E, an unnamed group has…
(CNN) — Chick-fil-A restaurants’ philanthropic WinShape Foundation no longer funds the most controversial and politically charged anti-same-sex-marriage groups and has not since 2011, according to Campus Pride, a leading national LGBT campus organization. Campus Pride issued a statement Monday claiming that Chick-fil-A gave the organization’s executive director, Shane Windmeyer, access to WinShape’s 2011 “990” tax…
Do you remember Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno? He was the alderman who stated he wouldn’t allow a Chick-fil-A to be built in his ward after Chick-fil-A’s CEO Dan T. Cathy stated that Chick-fil-A supported “the biblical definition of the family unit,” and the broad LGBT community became aware that Chick-fil-A’s non-profit arm (the Winshape Foundation)…
(CNN) – A Chicago alderman says Chick-fil-A’s president is publicly contradicting what company executives personally assured him for months — that the fast-food chain is changing its stance on gay marriage — and he asked the company Sunday to clarify. Alderman Joe Moreno made news last week when he announced Chick-fil-A has ceased making donations…
Reports are coming through that Chick-fil-A is continuing to actively raise money for anti-LGBT organizations like the Marriage and Family Foundation. The Advocate is reporting that Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy Tweeted a photo from an event raising funds for the anti-LGBT group on Tuesday – a day before LGBTweekly reported that the fast food chain…
The Civil Rights Agenda, an Illinois LGBTQ advocacy organization has released a statement confirming that Chick-fil-A is ceasing anti-gay donations, and has clarified its stance on gay customers and employees. From the statement: The Civil Rights Agenda … has learned that Alderman Moreno has finalized his negotiations with Chick-Fil-A. Alderman Moreno has confirmed that Chick-fil-A…
‘Legally Blonde’ or willfully blind? An open letter to Broadway star and Chick-fil-A supporter, Bailey Hanks Dearest Bailey Hanks, My name is John Carroll. Like you, I am a Broadway performer. I am also gay. While I very much support your right to free speech and free association, I would like to hold you accountable…
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A petition by some staff and students is calling on the University of Maryland (UM) to kick Chick-fil-A off the College Park campus. The petition on Change.org has collected nearly a 1,000 signatures and asks the university to end its partnership with the chain after its president, Dan Cathy, told a…
