Trans designer at center of Target Pride backlash bashes cowardly companies
“If you’re going to take a stance and say that you care about the LGBT community, you need to stand by that regardless,” Carnell said.Target’s decision to remove some Pride products came weeks after Anheuser-Busch’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney sparked outrage.Kohl’s is also taking heat from some conservative commentators criticizing it for selling bibs and bodysuits for babies that feature the Pride flag and slogans supporting the LGBTQ community.
Target’s collection for Pride Month, which is celebrated every year in June, includes more than 2,000 products, including Carnell’s Abprallen brand. His brand’s products are the only ones so far that have been removed both in-store and online, he said. Carnell says he has received hate messages and death threats over the past week, adding that he has had no contact from Target.Target’s stock loses $13.8B, sinks to lowest level since 2020 over boycottsIn a statement to Reuters last week, the company said that due to “volatile circumstances” in its stores, it was removing items at the center of the “most significant confrontational behavior.
“We stand with you now and will continue to do so – not just during Pride Month, but each and every day,” he said. The designer Carnell said Etsy, an online marketplace where Abprallen has a store, got in touch to check on him, and that Threadless, which prints his designs, offered him its premium services for free., such as a design featuring the slogan “Satan Respects Pronouns” and a horned ram representing Baphomet – a half-human, half-animal deity that is both male and female.
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