Why we're not changing our logo for Pride Month
Tomorrow Pride Month comes, and we just received a suggestion from our guest editor BigBad75 to change the logo to the Pride flag for Pride Month, Our answer was simple: no way José, because we don’t want to stoop down to the level of other corporations who pander to the LGBT crowd on Pride Month for easy money, only to leave it when July comes.
Every June, every corporation has an “opportunity” to milk out the pink money out of the LGBTQIA+ crowd by just doing LGBT related PR stunts during the month, that also includes changing their logo to the Pride flag. Which is the visual equivalent of doing a high-five to someone who’s drowning and then leaving them to drown.
We don’t need to support LGBT rights during one single month because we do support them all year, every year. If it wasn’t clearly evident that I was by presenting myself to yearly Pride protests and related during several years and engaging in presential LGBT activism and learning of sorts, I don’t know what else is. JMAA.tv is a soon-to-be worker-owned entity that works in favor of the LGBT community by any means necessary. This PR stunt corporations do on Pride Month is nothing more than an empty gesture on their part, and I don’t think it’s necessary to stoop down to their level.
Besides, the fun fact about all of this is that a lot of the same corporations who do this Pride Month stunt do donate as well to anti-LGBT lawmakers:
Source: 19thnews.org
Source: Forbes
And we ain’t doing that. Ever.
