What You Can Do: Continue boycotting Cinemark. Cinemark now trades at half of what it did in September, hovering at $7.99/ share.
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While almost all movie chains saw their stock tumble in the October crash, Cinemark has regained little of its value as competitors like Regal Cinemas have shown moderate improvement. How They’re Faring: Need proof that boycotts are effective? Look no further than Cinemark. Despite multiple boycotts, including one at Sundance, neither Stock nor Cinemark have pledged to change anything, other than to send out form letters saying, “It would be inappropriate to influence our employees’ position on personal issues outside the work environment, especially on political, social or religious activities,” to people who write asking for Cinemark to take a stand.
Operating also under the name Tinseltown, CineArts and Century Theaters, Cinemark delivers the sort of highbrow, artistic films that appeal to gays.
Regular Queerty readers know our feelings about Cinemark CEO Alan Stock, who donated $9,999 dollars to the Yes on 8 campaign. We hope you will provide this current information to your readers and revise your top 10 list by removing Brown-Forman.” These changes reflect a genuine desire, on the part of our leadership, to create an inclusive organization. Brown-Forman began offering domestic partner benefits in January 2009, amended our EEO policy to include gender identity or expression and have created a GLBT Resource Group, among other GLBT efforts. “I noticed you have included Brown-Forman on this list, so I wanted to provide you with some updated information. With so many gay-friendly liquor companies, there’s no reason to put Brown-Forman booze in your gullet. If you’re out at a gay bar and see a bottle of SoCo or Jack Daniels on the shelf (which you will at just about any gay bar), let them know that they’re serving up their whiskey with a chaser of hate and ask them to consider taking it down off the shelf-though you may want to do this the next day while sober and not while loudly screaming at your bartender. Stop drinking the brands Brown-Forman distributes. What You Can Do: This one makes the list because it’s so easy for you to make a difference. is currently trading at $41.70, up marginally from their mid-November 52 week low of $38 dollars, but over the past 10 years has had an average of 8.3% growth annually. Their customer service number is 1-80.Ī Fortune 1000 Company, Brown-Forman distributes Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort, Finlandia Vodkas, Herradura Tequila, Sonoma-Cutrer Wines, Fetzer Wines, Korbel Champagne, Bolla Wines, Bonterra Wines, but provides no comfort to its gay and lesbian employees, refusing even basic domestic partner benefits. What You Can Do: Currently, there is no organized boycott action against AutoZone. Caster defended his donation, telling the San Diego Tribune, “Without solid marriage, you are going to have a sick society.” Since November, three protests against the company have been staged by Californians Against Hate and a boycott is ongoing. The owner and his family donated $693,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign, making then the 2nd largest individual donors to the measure. Owned by Terry Caster, A-1 is one of California’s largest storage rental companies, with over 40 locations in the state. Not a single one of them deserves a nickel. These are the 10 worst companies for gays and lesbians, chosen for their national influence, prominence, history of corporate bigotry and the likelihood you can do something about it. Poverschmidt’s Hobo Sticks Emporium, you may have quite a bit), so why spend it on companies whose executives use their cash to fund anti-gay bills or who refuse their gay employees the same benefits as their straight co-workers? With legislators using the economy as an excuse not to move on gay rights bills, we present this list so that you can vote with your dollar and hit homophobic executives where it hurts most. You may not have much (or, thanks to prudent investing in gold and shares in Mr. With the economy ever tanking, now is as good a time as any to take stock of where your gay dollars are going.
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