Urban Outfitters continues to be anti-gay lying scum company

It was posted to several blogs ages ago, but many people still do not know that the owner of Urban Outfitters it a rabid homophobe who gives massive amounts of time and money to beat down the gays.

Now there's this. So sickening.

Urban Outfitters has an agreement with a design company for a series of "I support" shirts. After many months of cooperation, they finalized the next in the series: "I support gay marriage."

The shirt was immediately pulled from the shelves without explanation. And when pressed for an explanation, they lied to the design company. And then they started blaming the design company to complaining customers.

With pro-Obama and anti-McCain wear, it's not like Urban Outfitters doesn't sell political merchandise. It's just anything accepting of gays that must be quashed.

Their market is young hipsters, who are pretty much by definition gay-friendly. Their market needs to know where there dollars are going.

Excerpt from the story:

But a week after the shirts had shipped to Urban to sell on the web and in the key market of California – where a law allowing same sex marriages had just passed when their discussions with Urban began – Tara, upon e-mailing the buyer for a sales report, was told that “they had been pulled from all of the stores and the web because of ‘too much bad press.’” Just a week before Proposition 8 was approved, her support shirt was removed from what she thought was “one of the most liberal, open minded stores.” At first she was disheartened at the thought of so much negative reaction to such a simple design proclaiming only the wearers’ personal positive disposition on a very timely and much-discussed issue. But after doing some research to find all this supposed “bad press,” all that came up at the time of the pull was one blog entry, which appeared on a small site devoted solely to combat gay marriage in the time of Proposition 8. Nothing more.

What Tara did find in her research, however, were “a bunch of articles on the president and founder of Urban Outfitters [Richard Hayne], his conservative views, and his contributions to [ousted homophobic politician] Rick Santorum.” Articles covering Hayne’s contributions to multiple conservative politicians and his personal conservatism dated back as early as 2003. This is not a crime by any means, but Tara did not feel that it was sufficient grounds to renege on an agreement. She told me “this is not a shirt with ice cream cones or puppies, it is a political shirt. With quite a few pro-Obama shirts in their store and even some anti-McCain products, this clearly isn’t a company that has a problem being politically aligned, so why?” She wonders if it is “just the homosexual community under attack here.”

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