In response to North Carolina’s House Bill 2, the controversial law that forces trans people to use the public restroom that does not correspond with their gender identity, the state’s Wedge Brewing Company has begun printing “#F*CK HB2” on its beverages.
First We Feast reports that in addition to the Wedge, more than 40 other North Carolina bars, pubs, and breweries have come together to form Don’t Be Mean to People, an online fundraising campaign that’s pooled over $40,000 to fight HB2.
“A day after North Carolina lawmakers held a special session to draft and pass a law legalizing discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, the San Francisco-based executive said he planned to oppose the legislation.
Salesforce, a cloud-computer company that provides business-to-business services, may not be a household brand. But with a market capitalization of about $48 billion, the firm provides Benioff with a prominent soapbox and a loud megaphone in the corporate community.
Benioff said he plans to appeal to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to publicly oppose the North Carolina law. The country’s second-biggest bank is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Last year, Benioff led the charge to topple a law in Indiana that allowed faith-based organizations to refuse services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in the name of religious freedom. Weeks after he began rallying other corporate titans to divest from the state unless the law was changed, lawmakers amended the legislation.
Benioff resumed his fight last month when the Georgia legislature passed a bill also aimed at legalizing discrimination in the name of religious freedom. Dubbed the First Amendment Defense Act, the legislation actually goes a step further than Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, barring government authorities from bringing civil cases against organizations accused of discrimination.”
THANK YOU MARC BENIOFF FOR BEING CONSISTENTLY THERE FOR THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY!
The trans man James P. Sheffield tweeted the perfect comment to North Carolina’s evil new law against transgender people.
The tweet i addressed to North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, who has signed one of the most extreme anti-LGBT laws in the USA, denying trans men and women access to bathrooms assigned to their gender, and shaming the state in the eyes of all good people world wide.
