Comments on: Selling out: Pride festival corporate involvement spurs criticism http://minnesotaindependent.com/4554/selling-out-pride-festival-corporate-involvement-spurs-criticism News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: ericam http://minnesotaindependent.com/4554/selling-out-pride-festival-corporate-involvement-spurs-criticism/comment-page-1#comment-7233 ericam Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:52:41 +0000 http://www.minnesotaindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=4554#comment-7233 I'm really ambivalent about it.<br><br><br><br>I confess, I did not take it upon myself to stop at every big corporation's booth and ask them what they do for their employees. I did pick up info and business cards from a few booths for products, services, and vendors that I didn't know about before. The parade seemed to be evenly split between corporations, churches, politicians, and "movements" (such as Revolting Queers).<br><br><br><br>Having not attended any other cities' Pride celebrations, I have nothing to compare it to, except that I keep hearing ours is too corporate and doesn't have enough "movements."<br><br><br><br>So yeah, you can't have much of a Pride without the corporations, but I felt dirty being so crassly marketed to. *shrug* I'm really ambivalent about it.

I confess, I did not take it upon myself to stop at every big corporation's booth and ask them what they do for their employees. I did pick up info and business cards from a few booths for products, services, and vendors that I didn't know about before. The parade seemed to be evenly split between corporations, churches, politicians, and “movements” (such as Revolting Queers).

Having not attended any other cities' Pride celebrations, I have nothing to compare it to, except that I keep hearing ours is too corporate and doesn't have enough “movements.”

So yeah, you can't have much of a Pride without the corporations, but I felt dirty being so crassly marketed to. *shrug*

]]> By: lavndrblue http://minnesotaindependent.com/4554/selling-out-pride-festival-corporate-involvement-spurs-criticism/comment-page-1#comment-7232 lavndrblue Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:12:23 +0000 http://www.minnesotaindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=4554#comment-7232 So, when corporations accept us as employees, providing us the ability to have health insurance coverage and wealth benefits for our families...actually recognizing our families by participating in our celebration, this is bad? Being accepted and given equal status is what we have worked for, for many, many years. I am proud to work for a company that accepts LGBT employees and actually sponsors the Pride weekend as well as other events throughout the year. I am proud of Target, Best Buy, CVS, REI and other companies for being a part of Pride. The alternatives are companies like Home Depot and Becker Furniture Mart that contribute to homophobics like Michele Bachmann and John Kline. So, when corporations accept us as employees, providing us the ability to have health insurance coverage and wealth benefits for our families…actually recognizing our families by participating in our celebration, this is bad? Being accepted and given equal status is what we have worked for, for many, many years. I am proud to work for a company that accepts LGBT employees and actually sponsors the Pride weekend as well as other events throughout the year. I am proud of Target, Best Buy, CVS, REI and other companies for being a part of Pride. The alternatives are companies like Home Depot and Becker Furniture Mart that contribute to homophobics like Michele Bachmann and John Kline.

]]> By: ericam http://minnesotaindependent.com/4554/selling-out-pride-festival-corporate-involvement-spurs-criticism/comment-page-1#comment-5299 ericam Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.minnesotaindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=4554#comment-5299 I'm really ambivalent about it. I confess, I did not take it upon myself to stop at every big corporation's booth and ask them what they do for their employees. I did pick up info and business cards from a few booths for products, services, and vendors that I didn't know about before. The parade seemed to be evenly split between corporations, churches, politicians, and "movements" (such as Revolting Queers). Having not attended any other cities' Pride celebrations, I have nothing to compare it to, except that I keep hearing ours is too corporate and doesn't have enough "movements." So yeah, you can't have much of a Pride without the corporations, but I felt dirty being so crassly marketed to. *shrug* I’m really ambivalent about it.

I confess, I did not take it upon myself to stop at every big corporation’s booth and ask them what they do for their employees. I did pick up info and business cards from a few booths for products, services, and vendors that I didn’t know about before. The parade seemed to be evenly split between corporations, churches, politicians, and “movements” (such as Revolting Queers).

Having not attended any other cities’ Pride celebrations, I have nothing to compare it to, except that I keep hearing ours is too corporate and doesn’t have enough “movements.”

So yeah, you can’t have much of a Pride without the corporations, but I felt dirty being so crassly marketed to. *shrug*

]]> By: lavndrblue http://minnesotaindependent.com/4554/selling-out-pride-festival-corporate-involvement-spurs-criticism/comment-page-1#comment-5300 lavndrblue Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.minnesotaindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=4554#comment-5300 So, when corporations accept us as employees, providing us the ability to have health insurance coverage and wealth benefits for our families...actually recognizing our families by participating in our celebration, this is bad? Being accepted and given equal status is what we have worked for, for many, many years. I am proud to work for a company that accepts LGBT employees and actually sponsors the Pride weekend as well as other events throughout the year. I am proud of Target, Best Buy, CVS, REI and other companies for being a part of Pride. The alternatives are companies like Home Depot and Becker Furniture Mart that contribute to homophobics like Michele Bachmann and John Kline. So, when corporations accept us as employees, providing us the ability to have health insurance coverage and wealth benefits for our families…actually recognizing our families by participating in our celebration, this is bad? Being accepted and given equal status is what we have worked for, for many, many years. I am proud to work for a company that accepts LGBT employees and actually sponsors the Pride weekend as well as other events throughout the year. I am proud of Target, Best Buy, CVS, REI and other companies for being a part of Pride. The alternatives are companies like Home Depot and Becker Furniture Mart that contribute to homophobics like Michele Bachmann and John Kline.

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