“The latest evidence that corporate America is becoming more gay-friendly comes in the form of a new report on workplace practices released this week by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian and gay political organization,” Marc Gunther reports for Fortune.
“The report, called the Corporate Equality Index, gives 138 major U.S. companies a perfect 100 percent score when it comes to providing equal benefits to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) workers. That’s 10 times as many as received a perfect score when the group did its first survey of workplace practices in 2002,” Gunther reports.
“To get a perfect score, companies must explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, provide domestic partner benefits and offer diversity training. Beyond that, they must advertise to the gay community and contribute to GLBT community groups,” Gunther reports.
“Companies with perfect scores for 2006 include automakers Ford, General Motorsand Daimler Chrysler, computer makers Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard, tech firms IBM, Intel and Microsoft, financial giants Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch and consumer products companies Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Johnson & Johnson. Several aerospace and defense industry firms – Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon – also notched perfect scores,” Gunther reports.
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thats so gay
Whoopie.
Great, maybe some unemployed schlub can startup a Macs for Gays charity and reap a handsome salary from it.
Watch the ads on the left side
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So why is the Nation’s leadership so far behind the curve on this issue – from talking with some of the republicans on the hill one would think that lives were at risk when it comes to gay issues!
Here hope’in the American people have had enough and take action in November! I know I have!
Remember that when someone speaks of gay issues in a unfriendly manner – it’s very possible that their talking about your kids or some close family member!
Thank about!
“To get a perfect score, companies must … <snip > … advertise to the gay community and contribute to GLBT community groups,”
“Several aerospace and defense industry firms – Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon – also notched perfect scores”
The mind boggles at exactly how those aerospace and defense products were advertised in the gay community and whether they sold any.
Well, we knew apple is a progressive company.
Hmmm, is it ‘equal rights’ if gay people living together get something that two straight people living together can’t get?
they probably like the spinning beach-ball when os x catches up… I could watch it for hours!
To get a perfect score, companies must… advertise to the gay community and contribute to GLBT community groups.
In other words: bend over first and then we’ll give you our perfect (and perfectly) gay score.
Makes me want to throw my iPod and Mac right into the trash… if even a penny of my purchase went to a gay and lesbian group I’m disgusted.
“So why is the Nation’s leadership so far behind the curve on this issue – from talking with some of the republicans on the hill one would think that lives were at risk when it comes to gay issues!”
Gee I wonder if somebody is purposely trying to stir the pot here.
Yeah, and while you’re ‘on the Hill’ (sure you are), could you give Hillary a kick in the rump for me…..after your done kissing it that is.
>>The mind boggles at exactly how those aerospace and defense products were advertised in the gay community and whether they sold any.<<
Haven’t you seen the ad slogans from Northrop-Grumman? …
‘Let us put our missiles in your silo’
and
‘Hey sailor, how about I land my big jet plane on that deck of yours’
“You know I know you’re gay?”
I’ve heard lesbians like them too.
OK, I don’t have anything against someone being homosexual. As long as it is two gorgeous women with me in the middle or on the end. Common who doesn’t want that? YEESSSSSSS!!!!!
I was actually looking forward to a post from “ron” telling us that all Mac users were “butt-pirates” or something. Where’s a troll when you need one?
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I don’t care if you are gay just stop being so gay!
The history of this country is pretty much based around the denial of rights to groups of Americans other than us good old White Boys. We started out against our Black brothers and sisters, and finally accepted them as a whole. Then it was the women of this country that we fought against, embraced, and grew stronger cause of it. Now, it’s the gay folks that must endure ignorance and prejudice from “god fearing americans”. One day, the gay population of this country will finally be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the rest of us, and we all will be that much better for it.
If you want to remain an ignorant white trash retard like Bobby here, I’m sure that Windows ’98 was born out of the blood of slaves and the tears of homosexuals. I’m sure you can go use that, and we won’t miss you.
See, you man-ass-loving sausage-smuggling Mac lovers are gay homos!
Stop chugging man-goo, lay off the guy-pudding, and stop swallowing the baby batter and upgrade from your gay toy Macs to a real man’s Windows PC!
H-Mo Mac freaks must now see the proof. You are all 100% gay homo fags.
MDN MW: “knew” – I “knew” it all along!!!
I’m not gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
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Hmmmmm,
<italic>Hmmm, is it ‘equal rights’ if gay people living together get something that two straight people living together can’t get?</italic>
No, it’s not, but I challenge you to provide an example of a benefit granted to a non-heterosexual common-law relationship not granted a heterosexual common-law relationship.
Apple Computer gets perfect score for lier, murderer, adulterer and Gay,-friendliness
lets not have any BrokeMac Mountain refferences…
Who cares. This is a Mac site – leave your bedroom activities private please.