AT&T is taking a shit on the rainbow flag
One day AT&T happily waves the rainbow flag, the next it happily takes a dump on it. It isn’t a kinkster call to Dan Savage’s podcast – it is literally true.
They might be taken down a few days sooner once word gets out about the new report Popular Information worked on with Progressive Shopper. 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.
The companies include familiar names like AT&T, UPS, Comcast, Home Depot and General Electric. All told, their donations totaled almost $15 million.
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. The index ranks more than 1,000 companies according to their policies for LGBTQ employees and their public advocacy for LGBTQ causes. And in the scorecard, HRC gave 228 members of Congress the worst possible score: a zero. 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.
