Hey, I'm not a fan of editorial cartoons based on internet memes, but sometimes you have to go where the readership is. The days when one could reference Shakespeare and Schiller are sadly gone.
LGBTQ+ Pride festivals this year are likely to be more modest than revelers may have become accustomed to.
Knuckling under to the Blatantly Corrupt Trump Regime's policy of Conformity, Inequity, and Exclusion, erstwhile sponsors such as Mastercard, Skyy Vodka, Target, and Pepsi have decided to cancel their support in 2025. Anheuser-Busch ended its 30-year relationship with hometown St. Louis's Pride festival and others'; Comcast sent its regrets to San Francisco, contributing to a $300,000 shortfall in corporate support there.
“I find it very difficult to believe this is about the economic context,” Fabrice Houdart, executive director of the Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors, told the New York Times. “One thing that is striking about the conversations I have had over the past few months is there are a lot of companies saying, ‘I won’t engage on anything LGBT-related because I don’t want to find myself being a target.’”
Some folks see this as an opportunity to get away from the over-commercialized, homogenized versions of what used to be a celebration of queerness and activism — although, like complaining about Memorial Day Weekend becoming devoted to grilling out and drinking beer, that ship may have sailed.
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