For those with shopping still to do

[drwex]

HRC, the Human Rights Campaign (a big supporter of marriage equality, among other things) has published its latest list of what it rates as GLBT-friendly businesses. (*)

http://www.hrc.org/buyersguide2010/

You can do some limited browsing of the list online, or you can download the whole thing from their site. There's also a link from that page to a description of the criteria they used to rate businesses.

If you're still out there shopping, for winter holidays or whatever, give this guide a look.

(*) As noted in comments, a business that is ranked as GLBT-friendly may have other human-rights or problematic elements to it.

Comments

I do not know if they were involved in the Prop 8 fight

[drwex]

They have been involved in the MA, NY, and ME campaigns, at least to my observation.

Nike is on the list? Ugh.

Re: I do not know if they were involved in the Prop 8 fight

[drwex]

They list a lot of major corporations, many of which have problematic elements to them. You can click through to see detail pages like http://www.hrc.org/issues/workplace/organization_profile.asp?organization_id=1247&search_id=1&search_type=Quick

Bottom line it does appear that Nike is a GLBT-friendly business, which is what they're advertising this as a list of.

Re: I do not know if they were involved in the Prop 8 fight

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Another bottom line is that they call themselves the Human Rights Campaign and endorse Nike. Strongly, even, because Nike gives them money. They strongly endorse a lot of large corps who give them money, and they call themselves a grassroots organization despite never (that I've seen) encouraging people to support local queer-owned businesses instead of the giganticorps.

I can't say I actually know what they did for the campaigns you mention, either (one way or the other). But my impression of the HRC is like a tapeworm in the belly of the queer rights movement. They take in much of the money but do little to strengthen (and overall, probably weaken) the whole. It is a catchy logo, though.