I am a journalist—I get pitches for stories every day from huge multimillion dollar companies, asking for stories about their service to the LGBTQ community, just so they can get free publicity. Swear to God, last week I got a pitch from a PR person yo write a Pride story about Quikbooks. Because there are gay and trans people who use Quikbooks. I am not exaggerating this. Quikbooks wanted free publicity about queer people paying to use their product.

Corporate America will do anything to make money. Supporting the LGBTQ community is profitable, so they do it in June when it is trendy. They don’t actually care. Does Target run ad campaigns supporting, I don’t know, what other group of people are marginalized? Do they run month long ad campaigns for children in foster care? How about Jewish people who are being targeted by hate campaigns? Or Native American tribes who are having their lands and water systems destroyed? No. It isn’t sexy enough.

Stop buying this crap from big companies. Stop. Nobody benefits and it is just a vanity purchase for you when you do it. And especially with Target, and their Pride collection of tshirts featuring Drag Race contestants…they do not need your money. They have millions of dollars, literally. If you want a rainbow tshirt, go on Etsy or something and buy from a small artist who is just trying to make enough to survive. That is the LGBTQ community.

Ok rant done.