{"id":10190,"date":"2021-06-25T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/?p=10190"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:43:09","slug":"pride-logo-companies-understood-meaning-lgbtq-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/news\/pride-logo-companies-understood-meaning-lgbtq-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Logo: Is It Time Companies Understood The Meaning Of Being An LGBTQ Ally?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>While it is true that the LGBTQ+ movement has gained tremendous momentum around the world, most global companies choose to play by the rules and cultural prejudices of different markets around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, it\u2019s that time of the year when some of the largest companies around the world switch their usual monochrome emblems for rainbow-clad ones. From Bank of America to Facebook to Walmart, all have once again come out as LGBTQ+ allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it is true that the LGBTQ+ movement has gained tremendous momentum around the world, most global companies choose to play by the rules and cultural prejudices of different markets around the world. In their quest to align themselves with various cultural prejudices, companies have adopted balancing strategies that come under the radar of social justice activists from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social activists feel that the strategy of adapting to cultural biases only makes companies look opportunistic. Some LGBTQ+ rights activists have even used their Twitter handles to comment on companies\u2019 conflicting accounts as signs of \u201ccorporate wokeism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Woke corporatism be like: profit &gt; virtue signalling principles <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jVZsssFTGs\">pic.twitter.com\/jVZsssFTGs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrengrimes_\/status\/1400190146562215945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies that have followed a dual strategy of changing their Western social media accounts to rainbow flags while keeping the Middle Eastern ones unchanged include Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and BMW among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Daimler\u2014the parent company of Mercedes Benz\u2014they are required to \u201ccomply with the applicable laws and regulations of the respective countries\u201d for them to carry out their business as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Auto giant also added that it still is \u201ca long way to go before the LGBTQI+ community is accepted completely worldwide, we as a company can only contribute a small part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe value diversity and inclusion and support the LGBTQ+ community across the globe,\u201d said a Facebook company spokesman. \u201cOur LGBTQ+ experiences are sometimes limited in places where members of the community are heavily stigmatized and could be in danger. We will continue to look for ways to make our products more widely available while still prioritizing people\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it is true that companies have chosen to balance their strategies as far as Pride branding is concerned, they deserve every bit of praise to have expressed themselves as an LGBTQ+ ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it is true that the LGBTQ+ movement has gained tremendous momentum around the world, most global companies choose to play by the rules and cultural prejudices of different markets&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":10195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1920,1401,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",150,109,false],"medium":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",300,219,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",768,560,false],"large":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1024,747,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1536,1121,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1920,1401,false],"penci-single-full":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1920,1401,false],"penci-slider-full-thumb":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1096,800,false],"penci-full-thumb":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",1170,854,false],"penci-slider-thumb":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",909,663,false],"penci-magazine-slider":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",707,516,false],"penci-thumb":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",534,390,false],"penci-masonry-thumb":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",585,427,false],"penci-thumb-square":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",585,427,false],"penci-thumb-vertical":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",480,350,false],"penci-thumb-small":["https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pride-logo-lgbtq.jpg",240,175,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Mark Stephens","author_link":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/author\/marks\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"While it is true that the LGBTQ+ movement has gained tremendous momentum around the world, most global companies choose to play by the rules and cultural prejudices of different markets&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}