LGBTQ friendly businesses

IBM -offers domestic partner health benefits and also having an anti-discrimination clause.

Apple -$100,000 to the No on Prop 8 campaign and offers benefits to their LGBTQ employees.

Google -Google publicly opposes Proposition 8. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, donated $140,000 to the NO campaign.

Gap –In Los Angeles, CA, GAP has a billboard located downtown that reads: GAP- BE BRIGHT- BE ONE with two homosexual men pressed together under a shared t-shirt. One Million Moms called boycotts directed at Gap and its affiliated stores Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime and Athleta.

Old Navy -Old Navy celebrated 2011 gay pride by donating 10% of proceeds from the new shirts to the ‘It Gets Better Project’.

Amazon -Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have donated $2.5 million to help pass a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington State.

General Mills - took a public stance on gay marriage, spoke out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex couples from tying the knot in Minnesota.

JcPenny’s -JC Penney’ advertising in the past year has made it perfectly clear that they stand firmly with the LGBTQ community.

Macy’s -ads have supported marriage equality including ads in California protesting Proposition 8 and health insurance to LGBTQ couples.

Home Depot -sponsored the Southern Maine Pride. The American Family Association delivered a petition with 500,000 signatures asking them to stop supporting the LGBTQ community. Despite the backlash Home Depot continues its policies of equality.

Walt Disney Company -Walt Disney World lets same-sex couples use their Fairy Tale Wedding Program. They also host the yearly Gay Days.

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The Human Rights Campaign’s 2012 Corporate Equality Index chronicles a decade of progress in workplace equality. 2012 marks the first year of new more stringent criteria regarding transgender health benefits. In all, 189 participants earned the top rating of 100 percent, evidence the CEI has helped transform the American workplace for the better over the past ten years.

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