06.07.06
Macy’s Goes Gay-cy’s and Then Returns to Closet
Massachusetts is the only state in the entire country in which same-sex marriage is legal. You would think that after two full years of gay couples getting married and the sky subsequently not falling and the institution of marriage not collapsing in on itself, that the anti-gay crazies would just drop the marriage issue and shut the hell up. But, perhaps fueled by the return of gay marriage to the national stage, they have piped up again, succeeding in getting Boston downtown department store Macy’s to take down a window display celebrating gay pride week.
The Macy’s store - which is the former flagship location of the Boston institution of Filene’s, recently replaced because Macy’s bought out the competition - had put up a window display with a list of gay pride week events (including the AIDS Walk) and two male mannequins, one of which was wearing a rainbow flag around its waist. A group that calls itself “MassResistance” (puke) called the display “offensive” and got Macy’s to cave into removing the mannequins. Macy’s offered a pathetic little answer:
“We believe in diversity, and our customers are very important to us,” [Macy’s spokesperson Elina] Kazan said. “But (the display) did offend a few of our customers, and we had to re-examine it.”
Come on, people. How could this possibly be offensive? It worries me that a major local business is so willing to give into paltry, whiny groups like this.
mat8drb said,
June 7, 2006 at 5:24 pm
A rainbow flag? Why are people so uptight these days? Here, welsh neighbours of an English family are complaining about a child flying a St. George’s flag, and got the council to force him to take it down. When did we become so petty?
I also wonder how this issue is addressed on our two leaders’ phone converstaions and meetings: here, civil partnerships have gone very well and there’s been no major outcry from any anti-gay movement: how does that tally with UK-US relations?