Urban Outfitters seeks to Exploit, Destroy LGBT people

One “Million” Moms freaks out over a teen girl kiss

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WARNING! The April 2012 catalog from Urban Outfitters has begun arriving in home mailboxes the last couple of days. On page two of this catalog is a picture of two women kissing in a face holding embrace! The ad and catalog are clearly geared toward teenagers.

Before your child has a chance to read the newest Urban Outfitters catalog call to unsubscribe from their mailing list at 1-800-282-2200 , and then throw it away. When you call be sure to let them know why you are unsubscribing. Tell them you will also no longer shop at their stores if you hear this type of advertising continues. The content is offensive and inappropriate for a teen who is the company’s target customer.

More:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/wwjtd/2012/04/13/one-million-moms-freaks-out-over-a-teen-girl-kiss/


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Why Are We Fooled By Urban Outfitters?

Urban Outfitters has certainly been in the spotlight lately. Stevie Koerner was added to the long line of artists claiming the chain lifted their designs without giving them credit. Twitter then exploded with Outfitter haters. Even Miley Cyrus jumped on the bandwagon, tweeting, “Love that everybody is hating on Urban Outfitters…. Not only do they steal from artists but every time you give them money you help finance a campaign against gay equality. #SHADYASHELL.”

Miley was referring to the more than $13,000 Urban Outfitters contributed to the former Pennsylvania senator—and famously anti-gay—Rick Santorum’s political action committee.

It seems to add insult to injury that Urban Outfitters (along with its progeny, Free People and Anthropologie) rocks a freewheeling style and courts progressive youngsters. It just feels a little more insulting than, say, Target giving money to anti-gay candidates. But...you sold me that Obama shirt, UO! we sniff. How could you?

But nobody should be surprised: This is less the exception than the rule. Corporations (many of them right-wing) have long funded products that avant garde consumers buy, from the first advent of rock n’ roll to the blingification of hip hop. As soon as a counterculture emerges, it’s immediately co-opted by people with money who know that coolness and youth sell. It's a coup if the establishment exploits anti-establishment culture for a profit, but it isn't uncommon.

More:
http://www.good.is/post/miley-cyrus-outs-urban-outfitters-for-donating-to-anti-gay-candidates/

Don’t Buy Here: 10 Companies That Hate The Gays
10. A-1 Self Storage Company
9. AutoZone Inc.
8. Brown-Forman Corp.
7. Cinemark
6. Domino’s Pizza
5. Salvation Army
4. Manchester Grand Resorts
3. Urban Outfitters
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1. ExxonMobil
http://www.queerty.com/dont-buy-here-10-companies-that-hate-the-gays-20090224/


Urban Outfitters Hawks 'Charming' Card About a 'Closet Tranny'

Urban Outfitters is being called out on Reddit for selling what they describe as a "charming" homophobic, transphobic card.

The card has "sold out" according to the Urban Outfitters website, but you can see it above.

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And I guess now is as good a time as any to remind everyone of Hayne's political leanings. Here's what This is Money UK wrote about him back in 2008:

"Shopping in Urban makes you feel like you are somewhere radically Left-wing, an antidote to the corporate blandness of The Gap. But Hayne is a stanch conservative who donates money to Republican politicians, not least Rick Santorum, a now failed Senator whose views on homosexuality are both bizarre and old-fashioned. Hayne doesn't give many interviews precisely because he's afraid that college slackers who get to know him will suddenly realise that buying his clothes is like giving cash to George Bush. Once described as projecting a 'Dick Cheney-esque aura of no-nonsense grayflannel gravitas', Hayne must be the only retailer whose expansion plans depend on no one finding out who he really is. Despite the strife in the sector, Urban just beat Wall Street profit expectations yet again. So far, the illusion is holding up perfectly."

More:
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/urban-outfitters-hawks-charming-card-about-a-closet-tranny.html


Urban Outfitters Under Fire for ‘Tranny’ Jack and Jill Greeting Card
Posted by Kevin Farrell on Mar 19, 2012 in Business | 15 comments

All good gays know that Urban Outfitters has a long history of anti-gay business practices, and political donations. So while we’d all love to own a t-shirt memorializing Jesse Spano’s “I’m so excited!” prescription drug abuse episode, we take our money elsewhere.

The latest in a laundry list of UO anti-LGBT missteps is a transphobic nursery rhyme greeting card for sale on the company’s website, and one imagines in stores as well.

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More:
http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/03/19/urban-outfitters-under-fire-for-tranny-jack-and-jill-greeting-card/