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Target has hosted Pride displays for more than a decade. This year’s items have been particularly controversial.
LGBT Pride displays and merchandise at the retailer Target recently provoked controversy, including calls for boycotts and, in some cases, apparent anti-LGBT harassment and property destruction. This has been followed by apparent pro-LGBT threats of violence against the company after it removed the merchandise from some stores.
Now, attorneys general from 14 states and the District of Columbia have written to the CEO of Target voicing support for its LGBT Pride merchandise and warning that some actions against Target or its employees can have legal consequences.
The June 16 letter to Brian C. Cornell, chair and CEO of Target Corporation, came from the attorneys general of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
They deplored “intimidation of Target staff” and “destruction of certain Pride-related merchandise” at Target stores. They said that in their view the company’s stores have been the victim of “potentially criminal acts.”
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LGBT Pride displays and merchandise at the retailer Target recently provoked controversy, including calls for boycotts and, in some cases, apparent anti-LGBT harassment and property destruction. This has been followed by apparent pro-LGBT threats of violence against the company after it removed the merchandise from some stores.
Now, attorneys general from 14 states and the District of Columbia have written to the CEO of Target voicing support for its LGBT Pride merchandise and warning that some actions against Target or its employees can have legal consequences.
The June 16 letter to Brian C. Cornell, chair and CEO of Target Corporation, came from the attorneys general of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
They deplored “intimidation of Target staff” and “destruction of certain Pride-related merchandise” at Target stores. They said that in their view the company’s stores have been the victim of “potentially criminal acts.”
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Anti-‘Pride’ Backlash Can Have Legal Consequences, 15 Attorneys General Tell Target CEO
Target has hosted Pride displays for more than a decade. This year’s items have been particularly controversial.
