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Box, Inc., Compass, Gilead Sciences, Inc., HP Inc., Hyatt, and Mattel, Inc. among signatories joining Human Rights Campaign and Freedom for All Americans’ Business Statement

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign and Independence for All Americans announced that more than 200 major companies have unified together to write on to the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom for All Americans Business Statement on Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation. Together, these companies are combined in opposing the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, much of which specifically harms transgender youth, in states across the country. The list of signatories has more than quadrupled in the past year.

“Every day, more and more major businesses are refusing to sit idly by as express legislators across the country push anti-transgender legislation and other bills affecting their LGBTQ+ workers, customers, and clients,” said Joni Madison, Interim President Joni Madison, Human Rights Campaign. “Cruel legislative attacks, especially against trans person youth, force employees to choose between states where they can p

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Campaign Summary

In June 2021, AT&T involved $750,000 in further encourage of The Trevor Proposal, an organization aimed at suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+ youth. The company needed to lift perceptions of AT&T's commitment to the Homosexual community, and its role in supporting through digital access and active allyship, outperforming benchmarks.

Strategy

Objective:

AT&T needed to highlight AT&T's allyship while helping the community thrive and find a way to further support the community with its campaign.

Target Audience:

AT&T wanted to contact the LGBTQ+ youth where they communicate. The organization defined youth as less than 30 years old.

Even before the pandemic, Gay youth have been initiate to be at significant increased risk for depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicidality (according to Russell & Fish's Annual Review of Clinical Psychology in 2016), with even more increased risks pronounced among youth who are gender non-conforming and/or nonbinary (according to Price-Feeney, Green, and Dorison in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2020).

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AT&T donated more than $1.1 million to anti-LGBTQ lawmakers

This Pride Month, as it always has, AT&T changed its corporate logo to a rainbow, issued statements for equality and tweeted out support for LGBTQ youth — all for a month-long marketing campaign.

But a stunning new state from Popular Information start that over the last two years AT&T donated $1,079,500 to anti-LGBTQ federal politicians, as well as $59,450 to state-level lawmakers who sponsored anti-trans bills that target LGBTQ youth.

These recent donations are in addition to the $2.755 million that AT&T donated to 193 anti-LGBTQ politicians in 2017 and 2018.

AT&T can tout its aid for equality and inclusivity, but its millions in donations to right-wing bigots tell another story.

In its recent report, Popular Facts found that 25 major corporations donated more than $10 million to anti-LGBTQ politicians who earned a zero rating on the Human Rights Campaign’s latest Congressional scorecard, which measures support for equality by lawmakers in Congress.

AT&T’s donation put the telecom colossal near the top of the list of companies donating to lawmakers who scored zer

Ziff Davis’ Support of the LGBTQ+ Community

Throughout the Combined States, historic and devastating attacks on the Diverse community are taking place, particularly against transgender youth. The number of proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills at the state level has skyrocketed, from 41 in 2018 to nearly 250 in the first three months of 2022 alone. Over 150 were specifically anti-trans bills. 

Ziff Davis stands with our colleagues, family, and friends of the Gay community in speaking out against these discriminatory and dangerous actions. In that spirit, Ziff Davis has signed, along with over 200 other companies, the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Statement on Anti-LGBTQ Express Legislation. This is a declaration to stand against all anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation. Ziff Davis has also joined its Austin-based businesses RetailMeNot and Spiceworks Ziff Davis in signing the Texas Competes Pledge, a coalition of 1,400 businesses who support equality and are committed to keeping Texas competitive and economically vibrant. We have also joined, along with our Florida-based Prime business, the Florida Competes Business Coalition.

These recent developments show us that our allyship and supp