Last Thursday, the HRC published its annual Corporate Equality Index, in which the group scores companies on their treatment of LGBTQ people. The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, one of the country’s largest LGBTQ lobbying and advocacy groups, makes it easy.
But if you’re going to boycott Chick-fil-A over issues such as these, there are probably some other companies out there you’ll want to boycott as well, including some headquartered right here in the Philadelphia area. (Yes, there is a Chick-fil-A at Philadelphia International Airport, and no, I haven’t seen any petitions to kick them out. San Antonio City Council just decided to ban Chick-fil-A from that city’s airport, and now officials are scrapping plans to let Chick-fil-A open at Buffalo’s airport. Then, the mag pushed a Chick-fil-A boycott by directing readers to 17 great chicken sandwiches you can buy in New York City that aren’t from Chick-fil-A - sandwiches “you can eat without fear that you’re also, however indirectly, supporting our nation’s hate-mongers.”Īnd since then, Chick-fil-A is having even more problems. New York magazine picked up the Think Progress report. In response, Chick-fil-A has said that it isn’t trying to push a political or social agenda the donations were for youth camps and other educational programs, it argued.
