Looks like companies such as Henekein, Guinness, and Samuel Adams are staunchly in support of the LGBT community, and have pulled their support as corporate sponsors for St. Patty’s Day parades in Boston…. and now New York. Ford Motors is the last American corporate sponsor standing for the midtown parade that kicks off Monday, March 17th, at 11am….
Guinness decided it was in the best interest of their company… and their revenues after the Stonewall Inn, a historic LGBT bar in New York said, “it would cease offering Guinness and would dump the stout beer in the streets if the company didn’t back out of the parade”. To the approval of GLAAD, Guinness removed their traditional backing in the long standing celebration.
GLAAD made this statement to supporters: “Today, Guinness sent a strong message to its customers and employees: Discrimination should never be celebrated,” said GLAAD CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis. “As a gay mom who has fond memories of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade, it saddens me that I can’t give those same memories to my own kids because my family isn’t welcome. Hopefully, as parade organizers realize that anti-LGBT discrimination is not supported by sponsors, or many Irish New Yorkers, they’ll see that families like mine should be part of the celebration.”
