The poll found that 68% of registered voters agreed that companies and brands should be able to show support to the LGBTQ+ community. Additionally, 61% believe public corporate support of the LGBTQ+ community has a positive impact on the community’s acceptance, and 76% are more likely to trust a brand that sticks to its values and stands up for what is right, even if it is controversial.
Acceptance of same-sex marriage and relationships in the U.S. has flattened after more than two decades of steadily increasing support, with an ongoing decline among Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll.
“I’ll give it one thing – these characters feel like college students. They embody all of the worst aspects of petty university mean girl shit. The absolutist thinking, the immediate instinct to ostracize and burn bridges, the full-body overinvestment in every little drama and rivalry, the unwillingness to compromise and change.”
“First, behaviourists say we should reframe the extinction burst, the sudden increase in tantrums, as an indicator of imminent success. During his work in the civil rights movement in the USA, Martin Luther King Jr framed the violent police brutality to which they were subjected as a sign that their campaign was working.”
Today, the Trump administration released a new proposed rule titled “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.” The rule, spearheaded by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and published jointly by every federal agency, aims to “ensure that Federal awards and subawards are not used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate” “’diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) or ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) policies, principles, or practices,” “gender ideology,” and “the so-called ‘transition’ of a child under 19 years of age from one sex to another.”
