WLWT Ch 5By Nicole AponteMarch 24, 2025Cincinnati Pride is willingly giving up tens of thousands of dollars as it prepares for its biggest event of the year.The LGBTQ advocacy organization says it's choosing to stop working with some of its sponsors even as it's in need of funding for its annual parade this summer.Beginning at 7th and Plum, Cincinnati's pride parade in June costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on every year. It's made possible by donations, but as companies roll back diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the organization says they're re-evaluating their partnerships.Cincinnati Pride says they're committed to equality for all and advancing the mission of celebrating the rich history and diverse culture of the LGBTQ community.While not naming names, Cincinnati Pride says they'll separate from some corporate sponsors, ranging from small businesses to major retailers.
How about... your company dropped DEI, we don't want you for sponsors!
How about... your company donated to the Republican party, we don't want you for sponsors!
How about... your company donated to Trump... we don't want you for sponsors!
Companies are shaking in their boots that Trump & Company will come after them!
Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and others cancel funding as US becomes increasingly hostile toward LGBTQ+ communitiesThe GuardianBy Dani AnguianoTue 18 Mar 2025Pride, one of the largest LGBTQ+ celebrations in the world, has lost significant funding as major corporate sponsors – some who supported the festivities for years – have pulled out of the event.Several companies, including Comcast, Diageo and Anheuser-Busch, which had provided about $300,000 in funding, told the organization that they did not have the budget to participate this year, Suzanne Ford, the executive director of San Francisco Pride, told the Guardian. Some of the companies had been a part of Pride for decades, Ford said. “We have relationship with all those people. It’s not just a number or transaction.”Ford believes the sudden departure of long-term sponsors is the result of a political environment, driven by the Trump administration, that has become increasingly hostile to the LGBTQ+ community.“The backtracking on rights for the LGBTQ community certainly have to be part of any [corporation’s] calculus on whether they give us money so I can’t pinpoint the exact reason, but, as we all know now, it’s more difficult than ever to stand up and say you support rights of LGBTQ people,” Ford told KRON4.
FEAR! Fear of legal action...
But maybe we should boycott the companies that put profit first before human rights?
Since taking office, Donald Trump’s administration has attacked LGBTQ+ people and diversity efforts with a barrage of executive orders. The president has ordered that the US only recognize two sexes, sought to ban trans people from the military, and repealed policies promoting racial equity and protecting LGBTQ+ people from discrimination. Major US companies from Amazon to Google have announced they will end their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The Christian Post.
The national retail chain Target is scaling back socially progressive policies, including phasing out its diversity and inclusion policies.In a statement on Friday, Target said it is ending the "three-year diversity, equity and inclusion goals" as well as concluding its "Racial Equity Action and Change (REACH) initiatives in 2025 as planned."Additionally, Target promised to stop "all external diversity-focused surveys," specifically naming the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index as an example.
The businesses fear the wrath of Trump & Company more than the wrath of a god.
FEAR! Fear of losing grants and funding...
The announcement drew immediate condemnation from some faculty and free speech groups.Boston.comBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated PressMarch 21, 2025Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.As part of the sweeping reforms, the university will also adopt a new definition of antisemitism and expand “intellectual diversity” by staffing up its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, according to a letter published Friday by the interim president, Katrina Armstrong.The announcement drew immediate condemnation from some faculty and free speech groups, who accused the university of caving to President Donald Trump’s largely unprecedented intrusion upon the school’s academic freedom.“Columbia’s capitulation endangers academic freedom and campus expression nationwide,” Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
First they came for...
We are living in Rev. Martin Niemöller poem.
There was this meme on Facebook:
It is time for Pride events look at who their sponsor are and if they are capitulating to Trump the way Neville Chamberlain capitulated to Hitler!
Updated: 3/26 @ 3:30AM
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