Popular Information reached out to HRC for comment. It should be noted that after receiving a perfect score in 2018, GE, Comcast, Home Depot, FedEx and Verizon scored only a 90 on the 2019 CEI. The donations were all from corporate political action committees to politicians or their leadership PACs. Every one of those nine also donated about $1 million or more in the last election cycle to politicians who received a zero on the HRC Congressional scorecard, which the team then brought to the attention of Popular Information. All of them voted to confirm anti-gay members of the Trump cabinet, voted to deny healthcare to transgender troops, and wouldn't sponsor or co-sponsor any legislation in support of LGBTQ rights.Īfter comparing those two lists, Progressive Shopper identified those nine corporations, all of which received a perfect score on the 2018 equality index from HRC. And in the scorecard, HRC gave 228 members of Congress the worst possible score: a zero.
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The index ranks more than 1,000 companies according to their policies for LGBTQ employees and their public advocacy for LGBTQ causes. The team at Progressive Shopper created a dataset based on two annual lists compiled by Human Rights Campaign: one called the Corporate Equality Index, the other the HRC Congressional Scorecard. All told, their donations totaled almost $15 million. The companies include familiar names like AT&T, UPS, Comcast, Home Depot and General Electric. Nine of the biggest, most LGBTQ-supportive corporations in America gave about $1 million or more each to anti-gay politicians in the last election cycle. They might be taken down a few days sooner once word gets out about the new report Popular Information worked on with Progressive Shopper.
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Of course, come next week, the calendar will flip to July, and it's buhbye to all the cute gays, sparkly rainbows and boldly-colored banners flown by big businesses. Are consumers so gullible as to actually choose to spend their money on a brand with a rainbow?Īs the website Popular Information noted, a survey by Harris Interactive found "approximately two-thirds of LGBT adults, or roughly 66%, would be very or somewhat likely to remain loyal to a company or brand they believed to be supportive of the LGBT community, even when less-supportive competitors offered lower prices or greater convenience."