Posted on 11/05/2004 1:33:57 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
Big companies are hoping to marry their brands to gays and lesbians this weekend — about 20,000 of them. In the first days after the presidential election — in which gay marriage proved to be a pivotal issue — the nation's biggest exposition on homosexual life is setting attendance records. Booths for exhibitors are also sold out for the first time at the Javits Center, which since 1999 has hosted Gay Life Expo, one of the center's liveliest trade shows. Companies ranging from Citigroup and American Express to Jet Blue and J.P. Morgan Chase are hawking their offerings to the crowds, described by organizers as brand-loyal big spenders who are hard to please.
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"are hawking their offerings to the crowds, described by organizers as brand-loyal big spenders who are hard to please."
Unless of course you're into gay, whips and chains, freaky weirdo sex in which case they are easy to please.
Comment TWO - < barf >
? "Gay Life Expo" ?
don't even want to know
Why not court them? They've got plenty of disposable income, they don't have to spend it on those annoyances like kids or anything like that.
That was sarcasm by the way.
To name a few of the worst bigots against heterosexuals, American Express, Wells Fargo, Anheuser-Busch, Proctor & Gamble.
Lot more Bible-thumpers than bum-bumpers. Time to kick in the after burtners on the corporations that think pandering to perverts is good business.
I heard the K-Y Jelly booth was pretty slick.
I don't know why this would bother anyone. How does it in any way harm a straight person if a gay guy opens a bank account at Citibank?
I know Land Rover and Jaguar were doing a deal with GLAAD.
I wrote Land Rover and told them I had one, and was dissapointed they were moving away from family values.
They replied ( twice ) that they were dissapointed that I wouldn't want them reaching out to minorities. . .
Comment ONE - I'd like a full list of companies that participate so I can avoid them at all costs.
Comment TWO - < barf >
DITTO!
A homo NYPD officer with Met Life insurance who books Lufthansa flights on Orbitz, dresses in the latest fashions from Gaultier & Macy's, reads Time magazine, holds Tupperware parties, and takes Tylenol when having bum pains.
How does it in any way harm a straight person if a gay guy opens a bank account at Citibank?<<<
It doesn't harm any straight person like a slap in the face or something - it's all a matter of the "company one keeps".
To go with the Citibank example, I'm sure there are plenty of gay people with accounts at Citibank. I, too, have an account at Citbank. In what way have I been effected, in any way, by the fact that homosexuals have checking accounts at the same financial institution?
How are my checking, savings and investment accounts effected one bit by Citibank's renting a booth at this trade show?
I choose not to do business with any company which panders to homo's... is that okay?
Did you write back and ask them if they were reaching out to child molesters or beastialiphiles?
They are a minority, too
LOL!
Why are you asking me? You're free to do business with whomever you choose.
That doesn't mean it's a rational choice, however.
Tylenol is one of Johnson and Johnson's companies. You boycott J&J and life will be a lot more inconveinient. They make "splenda" BTW. Also I expect a lot of tylenol will have to be used this weekend at an event like that.
I hear the Dims are blaming Gays for the big loss tuesday. Gays are about to find out what the Dims really think of them now that they are a political liability.
I hope I'm wrong. But just look at how they've turned on Kerry already. The problem with liberalism is that all that touchy feely talk is all just talk. Sigh, another special interest group disenfranchised.....
Following that logic, why should I personally care about murder in Cleveland? After all, it won't personally hurt me. We approve and disapprove of activities that are good or bad for society at large, not just our personal selves.
MM
For any company out there reading this, I actively boycott ALL businesses that promote or pander to the homosexual lobby.
And since I live in the SF Bay Area, I see your advertising targeted at the homosexual "community" and I read the news that discusses pro-homosexual businesses. You might think that you can push this crap in San Francisco and other large urban markets, while putting on a "traditional values" face and hiding your pro-homosexual proclivities from the rest of the country. But we are on to you. You can no longer count on the mainstream media to cover-up your actions. The Internet is the new free press of the 21st century. And in case you didn't notice from this last election, Conservative values are making a strong comeback in America.
I may seem like a small voice, but just know that I represent a large silent MAJORITY that is sick of the homosexual agenda. For each homosexual customer you pick up, you are probably losing three or more regular Americans. As news of your pro-homosexual business practices spread into America's heartland, that loss ratio will increase. You have been warned.
Here's a list of exhibitors. Heh.
http://www.gaylifeexpo.com/exhibitors.html
you asked a question in your post #11 and I answered it.
Well, now we know who to boycott.
You just had to slip that post in, didn't you? ;)
It's called Capitalism. Gays have alot of money.
For any company out there reading this, I actively boycott ALL businesses that promote or pander to the homosexual lobby.<<<
My family does as well. I have not missed Disneyland at all, nor will I miss anything by any company that panders to gays. I dont use tylenol either. Hope bayer is not on the list, if it is, I'll suffer thru the occasional headache rather than supprt the decling morality of this nation.
BTW I have not missed paying at the box office for movies with terror-loving liberal "stars" in them either!
It is not very hard to live by a good personal value system, no company can provide me with the Peace of God.
Just preposterous. So you won't frequent any business that advertises to Gays? You've just drastically cut your choices. I don't know how being against Gay marriage has now manifested itself into being against Gays. It's their life, they have a right to sleep with whomever they want. Really now, you think by not going to CitiBank you're going to stop people from being Gay?
It is the way they court gay people. Have you seen the advertisement for wrinkle release by P & G?? They always have to make it perverse.
I agree with you, the cost of health care due to aids brought to us courtesy of the gay community is just one of many ways their "choices" hurt innocent people.
Good idea marking it as sarcasm.
My post got whacked -- it was intended as dry sarcasm.
When ANY company tries to "cut its morals to fit today's fashions", it will suffer. I know a brokerage house in my city that wants to build its gay business. In response, gay marriage is now a political issue for all its brokers because gay marriage is about financial benefits just as much or moreso than about publicly-recognized commitment. In the meantime, they have turned off a more important market, married heterosexuals. Why buy from a broker who doesn't see the world the way you do when there are 100 others around the block who do? Will your broker be as quick to call you about a market change if he really wants business from another "targeted" customer? Sensing that a salesperson is discriminating, perhaps against your best interests, does not inspire future business.
Most products are the same, there are just subtle differences in how they market them. I don't want to do business with companies that don't think I'm special. It's like talking to someone and noticing that they are looking at everyone else in the room instead of you. Why bother if you aren't appreciated?
Than God we have the self anointed like you to set us, uh, er, straight.
Seriously, I have no idea.
You might want to boycott everything, because I am sure much of what you own, so does some gay guy or lesbian.
Are you saying Modernman is not 'keeping good company' because he banks somewhere that might also be the banking choice for homosexuals?
You might want to boycott everything, because I am sure much of what you own, so does some gay guy or lesbian.
You are way off the mark. What gays "own" is not at issue - those who pander to them are. . . .forget it. I cant talk to a brick wall . . .
dude, if you're going to avoid "all companies that support them at all cost," you're going to have to start raising goats for food, milk, shoes, etc. you're reading about marketing, not an out and out endorsement of gays, the gay lifestyle, etc. all big companies do this. it comes down to, how can we expand our market? in the purest, capitalistic sense, it's got nothing to do with lifestyle, it's just another customer constituency.
No...no I wouldn't. I like Tylenol, JetBlue, and Amex too much. Oh, and Nordstroms.
Fine .. then I guess they don't need my business. I'll be only too happy to take my business somewhere else.
Procter and Gamble
Will Coors Brewing be participating???
This one is sick. It's a Procter and Gamble ad for Downey in a gay publication with two guys in bed together.
http://www.pgboycott.com/pgcommercialcloset.pdf
My understanding was that that ad was run only in gay publications, such as Out Magazine. P&G did not run the ad in any mainstream publication.
Apples and oranges. Murder harms the rights of others. Homosexuality, while arguably immoral, harms no one's rights.
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