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USA: NOM’s Starbucks Boycott Flops

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Starbucks BoycottNational Organization for Marriage’s DumpStarbucks campaign, which is NOM’s attempt to punish Starbucks for supporting marriage equality, went international on April 10, running online ads in Egypt, Beijing, Hong Kong, the Yunnan region of China, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait in the languages Mandarin, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and Bahala.

By April 10th, before their international campaign kick-off, NOM had garnered about 30,400 domestic signatures on their boycott petition.
April 10.

One week later, after running online ads in some of the most anti-gay countries on Earth, NOM has netted all of 1,500 additional signatures.

Full Story from Pam’s House Blend

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USA: Starbucks Stock Up Since Boycott Began

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Starbucks StockStarbucks CEO Howard Schultz said last week the coffee giant hasn’t seen any diminished sales since anti-gay group National Organization for Marriage launched a flailing boycott over the company’s LGBT and equality-inclusive policies. Their stock clearly hasn’t suffered, either.

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USA: 25K Sign Starbucks Boycott vs. 460K in Support of Company

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Starbucks BoycottI guess this is what is meant by “the jokes just write themselves”. Check out the “victory” diary that Maggie Gallagher just posted on the NOM (National Organization for Marriage) blog.

NOM and allies have been thrashing the weeds for almost two weeks now trying to get people to pledge to “Dump Starbucks” because Starbucks has joined the ever-lengthening list of businesses that support Washington’s marriage equality law. And 25,000 signatures is all they have to show for it.

In the mean time, over 460,000 people have signed the Thank Your Starbucks note over at SumOfUs.

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USA: Starbucks Says Anti Gay Boycott Has No Effect

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Starbucks BoycottStarbucks has said a boycott over its support for gay marriage has had no impact on its business. “We’re not seeing any impact,” Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson told Seattle alternative The Stranger.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation’s most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, launched its “Dump Starbucks” boycott after Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defended the company’s decision to back Washington state’s recently-approved gay marriage law.

An online petition by the group SumOfUs.org thanking Starbucks for its support has outpaced boycott pledges.

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Archie Marriage Equality Comic Sells Out After Boycott

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Kevin Keller's Gay WeddingLife with Archie #16, with featured the marriage of gay character Kevin Keller, has sold out, the company announced yesterday.

The issue was the target of a boycott threat aimed at Toys R Us by the American Family Association’s One Million Moms project, which threatened that its members would stop shopping there unless the store removed the issue from its shelves. Unfortunately for AFA, it looks as though customers did the store’s work for them.

Archie Comics, the home to some of the world’s most recognizable characters — including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — is proud to announce that the company has sold out of LIFE WITH ARCHIE #16.

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Boycotts Fail to Make a Dent in Target’s Bottom Line

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Nearly three months after funneling $150,000 to a candidate who opposes gay marriage, Target Corp. is still dealing with the backlash from liberal groups who oppose the move. But while discussing the economy and other factors attributing to a fairly good year, the company told Ad Age last week that the negative attention hasn’t actually hurt the bottom line.

First, some quick background: The Minneapolis-based retail giant made the July 6 donation to a pro-business group called MN Forward that is backing GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. The contribution was allowed under the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United ruling and related regulatory decisions that allow companies to give unlimited amounts from their corporate accounts to political causes.

Target faced an outcry from groups that saw the donation as a betrayal to the company’s gay-friendly reputation. But in an interview with Ad Age’s Natalie Zmuda, Target Exec VP-Chief Marketing Officer Michael R. Francis said the protests and boycotts appear to have had a “negligible impact,” given sales for July and August were in line with expectations. Still, the retailer is taking the situation seriously.

Full Story from Advertising Age

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Target Apologizes to Employees for Anti Gay Marriage Candidate Donation

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Unable to extinguish a firestorm of protest among some of its customers and gay rights supporters, Target Corp. on Thursday took the unusual step of apologizing for making a political donation.

CEO Gregg Steinhafel sent a message to company leaders saying he was “genuinely sorry” that the donation had disappointed some. The message was posted on the company’s Intranet, making it available to all employees.

Minneapolis-based Target had tried for days to emphasize that the $150,000 donation to MN Forward, a pro-business group backing Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, was based solely on a tax and jobs platform. But because of Emmer’s stance against gay marriage, many perceived the donation as flying in the face of Target’s longstanding commitment to workplace equality.

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GOProud Stays At Hotel Owned By Anti Gay Marriage Advocate

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Hosting a reception today for Tammy Bruce, the lesbian conservative radio show host who believes marriage should be reserved for heteros, GOProud has taken over part of the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego. And they’re loving it!

Chairman Christopher Barron, who will likely be working on his red tan by the pool, isn’t afraid of you homos calling for a boycott of the hotel over owner Doug Manchester’s $125,000 donating to pass Prop 8. “Dear Boycotters of the Manchester Grand Hyatt – It’s really really nice here. That is all :D ,” he tweeted today.

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CA: San Diego Manchester Hyatt Changes Hands, Mostly; Boycott Continues

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

San Diego Port Commissioners on Tuesday approved the transfer of the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel downtown from developer Doug Manchester to the Hyatt Hotel Corporation. The hotel has been the target of protesters and a boycott since Manchester donated $125,000 to Proposition 8, the measure that banned gay marriage in California.

Fred Karger and his group, Californians Against Hate, have been leading the boycott.

“We’ve offered from day one to meet with Doug Manchester to try to negotiate an end to the boycott,” said Karger. “He has always refused to meet with us.”

Full Story from 10 News

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