Posted on 06/05/2012 1:07:55 PM PDT by smokingfrog
On June 28, 1969, gays, lesbians, and their transgendered friends took to the streets of New York, protesting the harassment they'd experienced at the hands of the city's police force. The violence -- now known as the Stonewall Riots -- lasted for several days and altered the way that Americans viewed their LGBT neighbors.
Forty-three years down the road, things have changed dramatically. We have an array of LGBT characters on TV and in movies. We have a president who's come out in favor of marriage equality. And with only a couple of exceptions, most of America's major corporations -- 86% to be exact -- have anti-discrimination HR policies to protect their lesbian and gay workers.
So, it shouldn't really come as a surprise when automakers sign on as sponsors of city-wide LGBT pride events, as Chevrolet did this past weekend for Motor City Pride in Detroit. In fact, it was Chevy's second year on the sponsor board, and it was joined by Ford, Chrysler, and the UAW.
No, what comes as a surprise is that Chevrolet would put so much thought into the advertising they do around such events. Case in point: the above piece for the Chevy Volt, which ran in Between the Lines, a Detroit-based LGBT newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecarconnection.com ...
is the volt ac or dc?
Haha! Now it makes sense that it’s AC/DC.
Re Volting.
“is the volt ac or dc?”
They plug into anything.
How will the Volt run, if the wrong thing is put into the wrong orifice? (E.g. if you plug your electrical probe into the gas hole.)
Well, it is a flamer.
Fagette Obamamobile
The faggots are taking over the world.
Henry Ford is rolling over in his grave.
The Human CentiVolt
Nah, Henry Ford is laughing all the way to the bank.
This will send even more people in middle America Ford's way. And both Chevy and Ford make some of their best margins on the trucks the Evil Conservatives buy. For Ford at least, the truck business was 33% of the units and close to 50% of the revenue last I heard.
Electric Richards......
All this for only 2-3 % of the population?...What a bunch of crap!
Not true for me.
Like any self-respecting homosexual would drive a Chevy!
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