Well, this is something that we never thought we’d see…
A Chick-fil-A franchise based in Hollywood, California made a surprising move last week when the business held a fundraiser to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. The initiative reportedly benefited Campus Pride, one of the leading national LGBT nonprofits committed to making college campuses safe for LGBT youth.
The percentage of sales at the Nov. 22 fundraiser donated to Campus Pride were reportedly unspecified, but went towards raising money for an anonymous $10,000 matching grant.
“We’re not going to turn away anyone who wants to be an ally and help us fundraise,” Campus Pride Director Shane Windmeyer said in a statement. “Activism is dirty work. It’s work that some people don’t always agree on the journey or the past and today we were just trying to be positive, to move forward and to do things that are common ground issues.”
Chick-fil-A was at the epicenter of a media firestorm in 2012 after the fast food chain’s CEO, Dan Cathy, stated in a 2012 interview that he was “guilty as charged” when it came to his company’s reported support of “traditional” understandings of family and the “Biblical family unit.”
In the two years since those comments were made, public backlash has been explosive, including same-sex kiss-ins and other boycotts.
Over the past year, Cathy has reportedly attempted to soften his stance towards the queer community.
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