Why are so many companies obsessed with LGBT?

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I’ve just seen yet another advert by a company going on about supporting lgbt etc. Is it just the fashionable thing to do now? Every company really wants to associate themselves with it, why not choose one of the less popular causes? I guess I’m answering my own questions really but I just find it bizarre how popular it is to have a rainbow flag as part of the advertising.

It's 'Year of Pride' or something.
I doubt find it in bit odd when supermarkets have signs up saying 'proud to support our LBGT customers' or whatever. Why wouldn't they? In my 20 years of working in retail I have to say the sexuality of the customers I served wasn't something that I even thought about. My job was to provide people with certain products. Where does sexuality come in to it? (I worked in Woolworths mostly - so the products people bought were mostly mundane household bits, cds and vids and pick n mix).

I bought the rainbow bags from ikea for one of my stepdaughters and she asked for a couple more, then I saw that they were actually not just rainbow bags for the sake of it but an agenda for LGBT.

It’s just cashing in on a popular trend/topic.

My step daughter is having a rainbow themed nursery/bedroom for their first child and is using somebody of the bags to repurpose/cut up to make things with.

Pride month of June. Apparently turning your company logo the colours of the rainbow flag will make all the difference.

1careful Really? Have you been physically attacked for being heterosexual? Beaten up on a tube? Had things thrown at you for being with your DP?

Being heterosexual has never been a prisonable offence.

Please don't go there.

I avoid them where possible.

Where were they 10, 15, 20, 30 years ago? Nowhere.

Now it’s just bandwagon jumping of the highest order. Just a fashion pushed by charities wanting big business bucks. All for the benefit of males.

1Careful Ah, the old "we need a straight pride" brigade... better don your hard hat.

How is it lesphobic? Genuine question

Stonewall have redefined lesbian from female same-sex attraction to mean anyone who identifies as female being attracted to anyone who identifies as female. Regardless of biology. Pride agree & so does Diva, which used to be a lesbian magazine.

Lesbians who object to this (and we’ve protested it, outside a Stonewall conference and at Pride marches) get the police called on them. It’s happened to me.

I’ve listened to young lesbians who have been almost in tears at the pressure they’re getting from their OWN COMMUNITIES to not be exclusively same-sex attracted. Saying that lesbians don’t have penises is apparently transphobic.

That’s why the rainbow makes my teeth itch.

It's just because it's trendy atm, same with climate change, sustainability & veganism. Victoria's Secret got laughed at recently for claiming to support LGBT when their CEO had only just recently been a dick about it!

I thought Victoria’s secrets said they’d have a trans woman model? Now how that would work with their itty bitty pants I’ll never know.

@LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD That's definitely not going to happen! The CEO/Head Marketing guy said this:

"If you’re asking if we’ve considered putting a transgender model in the show or looked at putting a plus-size model in the show, we have," Razek told the fashion mag, when asked about how other brands are starting to become more inclusive of including trans and plus-size women in their ad campaigns.

He continued:

"Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show? No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy."

£££££££££££££ is why

Oh I didn’t see the follow up quote!

I think same goes for Mental Health awareness. Large organisations want to be seen as a supportive to the cause but it's largely lip service in my experience.

It's all well and good saying 'we support people with mental issues' but I think this is mostly focused around mild stress, anxiety and depression. Anything more complex then your stuck.