NOM Might Not Use Religion to Attack Gays, But Its Supporters Sure Do
The National Organization for Marriage, which always makes a point to insist it is not a religious organization and does not base in faith its views on marriage, might want to tell supporters that...
View ArticleIs MoveOn.org’s Boycott Target Ad a Waste of Time, Money and Tactics?
MoveOn.org’s Target Boycott ad, while terrible, has a purpose. Too bad the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times completely misses the importance of holding corporations’ feet to the fire on issues...
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Uh Oh, Did MoveOn.org Forget To Tell Everyone It Tries To Influence Elections...
If you’ve ever entered your email address on MoveOn.org’s website, you know pressing “submit” is followed quickly by calls to donate cash to help so-and-so get elected. Hey, sometimes their...
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Why Won’t HRC Stop Telling LGBT Consumers to Shop At Target? (Updated)
Candidates for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors are being quite candid on where they stand on Target’s introduction to their fair city: “No frickin’ way!” That’s quite a different position being...
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Target’s Dazzling ‘Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular’ Was Enjoyed By Gay...
So how did Target’s “Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular” in New York City go? Beautifully! If you discount the protesters down on the ground. The embattled retailer’s amped-up unveiling of its fall...
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No Gilt-Free Shopping When You’re In Bed With Target: Spenders Revolt Against...
Is everything Target touches turning to garbage? Already facing the wrath of America’s gays, the retailer’s disease is spreading to other companies teaming up with it. Just this week we saw protesters...
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Washington University Will Not Have Its Freshman Bussed to Target To Spend...
Washington University in St. Louis, the private research school that just received the highest LGBT-friendly rating from Campus Pride, is joining the anti-Target chorus by pulling out of Target After...
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Mark Dayton Is Proud of What Target Was, Not Necessarily What It’s Become
Minnesota governor hopeful Mark Dayton, of the Democratic-Farmer Labor Party and whose family’s company created the Target store chain, is leading his Republican opponent Tom Emmer by about 10 points...
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Surprise: America Has Taken a Steaming Dump On Target’s Reputation
I’m not really sure how anyone can quantitatively measure a brand’s “buzz” (Twitter mentions? Facebook likes? Drudge Report headlines?), but Brandweek BrandIndex Report by YouGov “is a weekly consumer...
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Guess Which Pro-Bigot Retailer Bravo Teamed Up With To Sell Its DVDs?
Bravo, the bisexual television network that doubles as Andy Cohen’s personal playhouse, sells DVDs of its Emmy-caliber shows like the The Real Housewives of Orange County on its website. But if you...
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Target Helped Make Twin Cities Pride Happen. Should All Gay Groups Start...
“It is the mission of Twin Cities Pride to commemorate and celebrate our diverse heritage, inspire the achievement of equality and challenge discrimination,” reads the pride organization’s mission...
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MN Gov Hopeful Tom Emmer Doesn’t Want Schools Telling His Kids Not to Taunt...
Cover your ears, because boy do we have a spoiler for you! Tom Emmer, the Republican who wants to be Minnesota’s next governor, and who Target is throwing its weight behind, doesn’t just want to keep...
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Who’s HRC Giving $150,000? (Surprise: This Time It’s Not The DNC!)
Making good on an earlier promise, the Human Rights Campaign is giving away $150,000 — to match Target’s cash and in-kind services donation to MN Forward — to Tom Emmer-attack PAC WIN Minnesota...
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Mark Dayton’s Lead Over Tom Emmer Is Slipping, And Target Didn’t Even Start...
Mark Dayton is still leading Tom Emmer in Minnesota’s governor’s race, but his lead is slipping, according to the most recently polling data, which also shows gains for independent candidate Tom...
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Are Target’s Exclusive CD Deals With Taylor Swift An Invitation to Pirate Them?
Target will be the exclusive retailer of Taylor Swift’s deluxe version of her third studio album Speak Now “that features three new music tracks, three remixed music tracks, and 30 minutes of video...
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Court: Target Can’t Hide Donations to Tom Emmer
Supporters of Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, the Target and Best Buy pick, wanted federal Judge Donovan Frank to issue a temporary injunction blocking a state law that...
View ArticleLocal Reporter Jason Matheson Makes The Future Of Minnesota’s Bullying...
“These kids are thrown to the wolves every day,” says FOX 9 Minneapolis’s Jason Matheson about the state’s student bullying epidemic that’s leaving suicides in its wake. Teased as a kid himself,...
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3M Just Gave MN Forward $100K To Elect Tom Emmer. Oh, and HRC Gives 3M A 100%...
3M — the enormous technology, health care, security, and manufacturing company that seems to be behind anything with double-sided sticky surfaces — has a market cap of $62 billion. Now it’s joining...
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HRC Finally Knocks Target, Best Buy + 3M With 15-Point Deductions. But Not...
The Human Rights Campaign’s ninth annaul Corporate Equality Index has been uploaded, and some 337 companies (up from 305!) managed a 100 percent score. Many of them have been quick to spit out press...
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Target’s Pick Tom Emmer Won’t Support Anti-Bullying Laws Since They Just ‘Get...
I don’t think we need more laws. I think we need more understanding. We need people to start to understand what respect is all about. And guess what? Every one of us has a point of view. We are...
View ArticleIt’s Great To See NOM Repurposing Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message In Minnesota
Only Tom Emmer, announces NOM and the Minnesota Family Council in this new television spot, will let Minnesotans vote on whether they want to give their gay neighbors a reason to pack up and take...
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Just Because The Democrats Pissed Off The Gays Doesn’t Mean We Aren’t Voting...
The idea that gay voters would even fathom sitting out today’s elections is pretty preposterous — for it assumes the entire homosexual community in America is a single-issue bloc. And that, frankly,...
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Why We Still Don’t Know Whether Voters Kept Tom Emmer From Governing Minnesota
While some 8,781 votes would have Minnesota declaring Mark Dayton — and not Target’s favorite jerk Tom Emmer — the next governor, the 43.63-43.21 percent margin has triggered an automatic recount....
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Tom Emmer To Announce Target + Best Buy Lost Gay Customers For Nothing
Tom Emmer will today concede the Minnesota governor’s race to Mark Dayton, ending the drawn out election dispute — and ensuring the man whose family created Target stores will keep Gov. Tim Pawlenty...
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When You Go To Buy Last Minute Christmas Gifts At Target, Remember: The...
Do you continue seeing your friends, even your gay friends, check in on Foursquare to their local Target and think to yourself, “But don’t they know this company donated to anti-gay politicians?” And...
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Equality Michigan Comes ThisClose To A Formal Target Boycott. Why Hold Back?
For donating to anti-gay political candidates — and then apologizing for it, while continuing to, uh, donate to anti-gay candidates — Target has already drawn the ire of queers across the country. And...
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How Did NGLTF ‘Create Change’ This Weekend? By Accepting Cash From Bigot...
Creating Change, the five-day queer mega-conference wrapping up today in Minneapolis, didn’t just appear from pixie dust and Rea Carey’s crossed fingers. No, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,...
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Let’s Hear A Homosexual Executive At Target Defend The Company’s Reputation...
Daniel Duty is the Director of Enterprise Strategy at Target. In 1992, Duty was appointed by Target’s CEO as a co-sponsor of the company’s LGBT business council. Duty provides an insider’s perspective...
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Target Has ‘Changed’ Its Corporate Giving Policies? Oh Please. Don’t Believe...
Well look who’s finally coming around on their wrongs: Target Corp. The company that donated $150,000 in cash and services to MN Forward, the PAC dedicated to the failed Minnesota gubernatorial...
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Here’s How Lady Gaga Is Rationalizing Her Get Rich Quick Scheme With Target
With an exclusive deal with Target and Target.com to move deluxe editions of Born This Way, Lady Gaga appeared to be throwing her little monsters under the bus in exchange for a quick paycheck. But...
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Lady Gaga’s Stupid Plan To Fund Gay Rights Groups By Telling Little Monsters...
Is this how Lady Gaga will make good for helping generate cash for Target? She’s releasing a “limited edition” of “Express Yourself” “Born This Way,” and that a portion of the proceeds will go to “gay...
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Report: Target + Lady Gaga End Their Anti-Gay, Mixed-Messaged Deal
The unconscionable deal between Lady Gaga and Target — where the pop star tried convincing her fans to spend money with the anti-gay retailer in order to get her deluxe album — is reportedly over. How...
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Target ‘Surprised + Disappointed’ Lady Gaga Reneged On Deal To Gay-Wash The...
“We were very surprised and disappointed by the statements made by Lady Gaga’s organization related to her partnership with Target,” says the company in a statement after Lady Gaga dropped the...
View ArticleCongratulations, Target: Here’s Your Lady Gaga Sorrow Song
The story we’re being told is that Lady Gaga dropped out of her exclusive deal with Target because she realized, hey, the retailer didn’t really change its anti-gay stripes. Target, having lashed out...
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Advocate + Out Owner Here Media Is Happily Taking Target’s Ad Dollars
Visitors to Gay.com and Out.com are going to find advertisements from gay America’s most-hated retailer of the moment, Target. And who owns those websites? Oh, just Here Media, the stumbling gay media...
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UPDATED: Blogs Are “Not Allowed” (OR ARE THEY?) at Westfield Mall’s Photo Op...
UPDATE, 1:00pm PST: Okay, let’s make it even clearer: apparently it wasn’t the Mayor’s Office’s fault. Apparently someone thought that we had been allowed in when in fact we hadn’t. So, whose fault is...
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Meet Bradlee Dean: From Rockin’ Republican To Public Pariah In Under A Week
Meet Bradlee Dean. He’s a close friend of Minnesota Republicans, a youth pastor, rock “star”, and comic book hero. But after delivering a hateful speech on the Minnesota house floor, he found himself...
View ArticleUh-Oh… Is Target’s “It Gets Better” Video Actually Good?
Despite its accommodations to queer employees, Target has been the scourge of queer blogs ever since it made a donation to anti-gay Minnesota Republican Tom Emmer. But now they’ve released an It Gets...
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Could Michele Bachmann’s Successor Be Even Worse?
Now that Michele Bachmann is heading for the door, the scramble is among her would-be replacements. And the first hat into the ring belongs to a man who might out-Bachmann Bachmann in his homophobia:...
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If You Think Michelle Bachmann Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet The New Wingnuts...
Republicans won big in this year’s elections, but it’s not because the candidates suddenly become more moderate. If anything, there was a bumper crop of candidates from the furthest fringes of the...
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