Do Businesses Show Their True Colors During LGBTQ Pride Month?

Celebrations continue across the country as the LGBTQ community
celebrates Pride Month. President Bill Clinton declared June as
“Gay & Lesbian Pride Month” in 2000. The designation
commemorated the Stonewall Riots in Lower Manhattan in June of
1969. Nine years later, President Barack Obama included bisexual
and transgender people — the “B” and “T” of LGBT. Nowadays, rainbow
flags are in front yards, tourism posters, along with sponsorship
banners and ad campaigns. With brands like Campbell’s Soup, Apple,
and Taylor Swift feeling comfortable aligning themselves with
Pride, On Second Thought sat down with Georgian members of the
LGBTQ community for a conversation about the history of Pride and
how corporate commodification has changed the event over time.