Posted on 04/11/2024 11:54:36 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Chick-fil-A, the nationwide fast food chain known not only for its fried chicken sandwiches but also for its charitable foundation’s history of donating to organizations with anti-LGBTQ+ leanings, is facing a community uproar over a proposed new California location in the very gay-friendly city of Palm Springs, according to the Desert Sun and the Palm Springs Post.
Plans for the new location at The Springs, a shopping plaza at the northeast corner of Ramon Road and Gene Autry Trail, have been formally submitted to the desert city, but the project is on hold as the company negotiates with the shopping center’s owner. According to the Palm Springs Post, Chick-fil-A would demolish a building that used to house the California Nurses Educational Institute. It would then construct a 6,000-square-foot fast food restaurant with indoor and outdoor dining, as well as a three-lane drive-thru.
Palm Springs has long been a bastion for the LGBTQ+ community, dating back well over a century, when Hollywood stars would escape to the desert city for privacy and relaxation. Business organizations and the like became more politically active in the 1970s, and in the 1990s, LGBTQ+ tourism started to boom. Today, more than 100,000 people attend the Pride celebration held annually in November, and the city even saw the opening of an LGBTQ+ friendly senior living development recently, complete with a restaurant from legendary chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger.
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I can see a trans applying for a job there hoping to get rejected then suing. Hope their policies are cut and dry with appearance, including hair color, tats, nails, facial jewelry, etc.
Chick-fil-A is gay friendly so what’s their problem?
Hire the gay person and work him very hard. H/She/It will leave. They really do not want to work.
It’s interesting they picked Palm Springs knowing the backlash they would receive.
If you go to Palm Springs you only do it once it’s oven of a the lost land nothing there what so ever.
It must be a place for lizards go to die.
Are they afraid it will draw normal people to their “gayborehood”? Let them open it. If the queers don’t support it, it will close.
I finally got it. Doh! “PALM” Springs. Carry on Patty!
If you’re a smart restaurateur, you go where the money is.
What’s it been? At least six or seven years since Chick-fil-A went full homo. I haven’t eaten there since. There must be hundreds of small cities across America that would welcome them with open arms… But they insist on going to the San Francisco of the desert. Not my problem…
They didn’t expect the backlash. They know they’ve been full Globo Homo and BLM shine the shoes people since the old man died. I don’t support Chick-fil-A at all anymore, they threw their lot in with Satan and Wolk. I hope they lose a lot of money on this adventure.
Nothing is more stupid than Christians today championing the cause of Chick-fil-A.
I remember 30+ years ago a couple guys applying to be waitstaff at Hooters and being rejected.
I was just in Palm Springs and it’s not as gay as some would say it is. More rich, white, and hetero is what I saw. Very white. So white even the black people were white!
Foot bathers of negroes
Some people just want to pick fights. Any excuse will do.
Yes, we’ve been hearing for the past few years here on Free Republic, that Chick-fil-A has gone liberal. So why is there a problem?
If you go to Palm Springs you only do it once it’s oven of a the lost land nothing there what so ever.
This. The streets are full of trannies and other freaks. Not a place any sane person visits more than once.
Agree
Cross it off the list to visit.
This. The streets are full of trannies and other freaks. Not a place any sane person visits more than once.
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Is it that bad?! I was there a few times in my youth with my folks, and it seemed like a normal place — just ungodly hot. We went there for the mineral pools.
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