Anti-gay fundies helpfuly provide us a list of gay-friendly businesses

[Ian David]

This is from the anti-gay bigots at Article 8 Alliance.

Here are just some of the major businesses and institutions openly supporting the radical homosexual movement in Massachusetts . This list includes advertisers in Bay Windows.
{Sources: Bay Windows, Boston Pride, EqualMarriage.org, Greater Boston Business Council, Human Rights Campaign, Boston Spirit magazine}

Adesso
A.C. Cruise LIne
Accenture
Amazing Superstores
Amenity Windows
American Airlines
American Express Financial Advisors
American Repertory Theatre
Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser
Art's Dune Tours, P'town
Back Bay Financial Group
Bank of America
Bank of America Celebrity Series
Barnes & Noble
Bay State Cruise Company
The Beacon Group Real Estate
Beaulieu Vineyard
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bingham McCutchen LLP
BlueCross BlueShield
BMC Cosmetic Center (Div. Boston Univ.)
BMW
Borders Bookstore
Boston Art Tours
Boston Ballet
Boston Business Journal
Boston Community Capital
Boston Design Center
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
BostonTheatreScene.com
Bradford Auto Park & Wax
Brattle Bookshop
Campus Tan, Boston
Cape Air
Captain Morgan Rum
Centaur Music
Charles Street Inn
Chase
Cingular
Circle Surrogacy, Boston
Citigroup
Citizens' Bank
Clarion Hotel, Northampton
Classic Imported Designs, Inc.
Climate Technologies
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
The Colonnade Hotel
College Club of Boston
Comcast
Commonwealth Financial Network
Cose Belle Design, Essex
Countrywide Home Loans, Tremont St, Boston
Courtyard Marriott/Boston Copley Sq.
Crescent Realty Group, South Shore
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Natick
Davio's Restaurant
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Delta Airlines
Dolphin Fleet Whalewatch
Eastern Bank
Earth Angel Yachts
Edwards & Angell LLP
Eliot Hotel, Boston
Ernst & Young
EssentiallyBare
Euroports Iron & Antiques, Raynham
Evergreen Investments
Fidelity Investments
First Horizon Home Loans
Five Star Travel Services
(formerly) Fleet Bank
Freeport Tavern, Boston
Gibson Domain Domain
Gill Foundation
Gillette
Glaxo Smith Kline
Gondola di Venezia
Greenpark Mortgage
Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
Harvard Bookstore
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
Harvard University
Hill Holliday
Hilton Hotels
Holiday Inn Boxborough
Home for Little Wanderers
HomeVest Mortgage Co.
Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge
Huntington Theatre Co.
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
IBM
Independent Tax Operators' Assoc.
In Style Transportation
J J Bodner Insurance
John Hancock Insurance
Jordan's Furniture
Jose Cuervo
Keezer's Classic Clothing
Keller Williams Realty, Salem
Kessler Family Foundation
Kiehl's Pharmacy
KPMG
Langham Hotel Boston
Laser Skin Care Solutions, Needham
Lee Hecht Harrison
Levine Chapels
Maple Cliff Real Estate Services, Northborough
Mass. Council on Tourism
Mass. Horticultural Society
Mellon New England
Mercer HR Consulting
Metro Realty Corp., Brookline
Metropolitan Mortgage, Providence
Mill Creek Condominiums, Chelsea
Mitchell Gold Co.
Moose Meadow Lodge, Vermont
Mortgage Advisors Inc, Mass/RI
Movie Place, Tremont St, Boston
Neena's Lighting
New England Conservatory
Newbury Comics
Nike
Nine Zero Hotel, Boston
NorthStar Asset Mgt.
Novations/J. Howard & Associates
NSTAR
Olde Bostonian Architectural Antiques
Odyssey Cruises
Office Gallery International, Norwood
Onyx Hotel
Our Secret Bridal, Canton
Pathways to Wellness
Planet Subaru/Chrysler Jeep
Precision Fitness Equipment
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Pride Mortgage
Princess Yacht Charters
Prudential Financial
Prudential Prime Properties, Jamaica Plain
Quality Major Appliances, Newton
Remax Bayside, Cape Cod
Raytheon
RCN
Replacements, Ltd.
ROI
Saab Nashua North
Seyfarth & Shaw LLP
Sheraton Boston
Sheraton Grand Resort, Bahamas
Sherwood Mortgage, Boston
Showtime
Shreve Crump & Lowe
Skin Spa Clinic, Boston
Smirnoff
Sona Med Spas
Staples
Star 93.7 Radio
State Street Stuart Street Playhouse
Summit Mortgage
Touch of Klass Bridal, Canton
Trader Joe's
Truro Vineyards
Valente Insurance, Dorchester
Verizon
Virgin Megastore
Volvo
Wainwright Bank
Wang Center for the Performing Arts
Washington Mutual Home Loans
Westin Copley Hotel, Boston
WCVB-TV5 (w BostonTheatreScene)
WHDH-TV/Ch. 7 Boston
Whole Foods Markets
Wyndham Westborough Hotel
Yale Applicance & Lighting, Boston

More:
http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2005/04/hall-of-shame-update-corporate.html

[Sherwood]

1. Right...

I have difficulty believing that Nike is actively involved in the "gay agenda." I'm not sure what these guys want to accomplish.

[Goblinmonger]

2. When I think of gay rights funding

I think of Volvo. No doubt.

[Ian David]

3. Volvo: Boxy but Good and Very Gay

Well, I suppose we could:

1) Identify the "gay-friendly" companies on that list that contribute to Rick Santorum.
2) Organize the fundies to boycott those businesses.
3) Accuse Rick Santorum of accepting "gay money" for taking donations from "gay-friendly" businesses.

In other words, turn their own bigotry against them.

[BOSSHOG]

4. It takes a lot of hate and evil and paranoia

to come with a list that long. Sad, disgusting, constitution hating bastards. I'll keep this list handy and drop a few bucks out of my military pension into their coffers. Some of those listed are in the New Orleans area.

Budweiser? Those motherfuckers have got to do a shit load of boycotting to offset my contribution to that company.

THIS BEER DRINKING MILITARY RETIREE IS SO FUCKING HAPPY BUDWEISER IS HATED BY NEANDERTHALS AND IS LISTED AS GAY-FRIENDLY. NOW I HAVE ANOTHER REASON FOR DRINKING THEIR PRODUCT.

[ClarkUSA]

5. The GOP is full of the homophobically mentally-insane

I am convinced of it.

That's why the gay members of the GOP make me sick. What corrupted self-loathing must be occurring there to support this kind of viciously anti-gay agenda.

[davidinalameda]

6. they're so sweet to help us out like that

let's go give each and everyone of them big sloppy kisses!

[Misunderestimator]

9. Not me man... They might like that too much!

:)

[benevolent dictator]

7. Thanks for the list, fundies,

we'll be sure to buy stuff from them to offset your boycott.

[TaleWgnDg]

8. And, here's "Article 8 Alliance's" pals at the MA statehouse . . .

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And, here's "Article 8 Alliance's" pals at the MA statehouse
. . . planning their dirty tricks AGAINST homosexuals and their families:


Know who is working AGAINST same-sex marriage in the halls of our statehouse and elsewhere:

L to R, conferring inside the MA Statehouse during the 2004 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention whether to amend the MA state constitution against same-sex marriage and removing other benefits and privileges from homosexuals in Massachusetts:

(1) MA Representative Philip Travis (.pdf format, Adobe Reader necessary), Democrat, of Rehoboth, MA, (religious affiliation: "Christian") chief sponsor of the 2004 anti-gay MA amendment, and who has opposed same-sex marriage as a party to many MA and federal lawsuits, and who has co-sponsored a bill to remove the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices who authored (or concurred in) the Goodridge opinion allowing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts;

(2) MA Representative Mark J. Carron, Democrat, of Southbridge, MA, (a Roman Catholic and Third Degree, Knights of Columbus) who votes anti-gay (anything), co-sponsor of Travis' 2004 anti-gay MA amendment, and who has worked with Brian Camenker of Article 8 Alliance to remove the MA Supreme Judicial Court justices who authored (or concurred in) the Goodridge opinion allowing same-sex marriage in MA, and who has been a party (.pdf format, Adobe Reader necessary) to litigation AGAINST same-sex marriage in both state and federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court;

(3) Attorney Daniel Avila who is a paid lobbyist (client #950462) at the statehouse and elsewhere for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, Inc., (which is a Massachusetts corporation of the Roman Catholic Church headed by the Bishops of the Dioceses of Fall River, Springfield, Worcester, and Archdiocese of Boston/Archbishop of Boston, Most Rev. Seán Patrick O'Malley, OFM Cap). As such, Attorney Avila lobbies for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, Inc. (Massachusetts corporation ID #666002658) regarding such matters as anti-gay issues, anti-abortion issues, anti-in vitro fertilization issues, anti-right-to-die-with-dignity (Terri Schiavo-like) issues, anti-stem cell research issues, anti-contraception (including no condoms for AIDS/HIV) issues, abstinence-only sex education in public schools, and propagation of other Roman Catholic Church related religious issues in Massachusetts; and

(4) Reverend Ron Crews, Republican, of Ashland, MA, a fundamentalist preacher, a carpet-bagger from Georgia who is a paid lobbyist (#1367) for the "Massachusetts Family Institute, Inc." (MA corporate ID #043113783) a hate-mongering and gay-bashing religion-into-law fundamentalist organization and as former president of "Massachusetts Family Institute, Inc." filed an amicus brief against same-sex marriage and against same-sex civil unions with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the Goodridge case, who as a Georgia state representative opposed abortion, sought to create "covenant marriages," to have Creationism taught in Georgia public schools and abstinence-only "sex education" taught in Georgia public schools and a statutory redefinition of marriage as only for one man and one woman, and who recently ran unsuccessfully against incumbent U.S. Representative James McGovern, Democrat, Worcester.

For perusing summarized anti-same-sex marriage amici briefs, e.g., Massachusetts Catholic Conference, Inc., Massachusetts Family Institute, Inc., and others, filed in Goodridge, go to: http://www.mlgba.org/briefs/AmicusIssue.PDF (.pdf format, Adobe Reader necessary).

See also: http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2004/03/29/how_lawmakers_cast_their_final_vote_on_the_gay_marriage_amendment/ (BosGlobe, 3/29/04, How Lawmakers Cast Their Final Vote on the Gay Marriage Amendment, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 2004) (as last visited Monday, April 25, 2005).
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edited to correct broken hyperlink

[Misunderestimator]

10. LOL... I just noticed that Harvard is the only university they have listed

What about the symphony orchestra and the opera and the music schools and all the theaters they don't have listed? They can't even make up a good gay list. What boobs.

[Guy Fawkes]

11. They missed Microsoft.

Gates was on NPR this morning talking about how he supported gay rights- and was very upset when microsoft stopped its public support of gay rights.