Hephaestion
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 Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: Mich. store boycotted for sponsoring GSA float |
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Looks like Meade, Kansas might have a contender for the title of "Assholia"...
| Quote: | Yale said many residents of the small city have attempted to push her shop out of town. The store has been hit with a number of labels and accusations, has been subjected to police visits, and now is being boycotted, Yale said.
All for sponsoring a gay-straight alliance student group's float at Mason High School's Sept. 29 homecoming parade, she said.
"The store was just dead, for two days the door didn't even open," Yale said of the days following the parade. "Then, we would get out-of-towners, people driving through or people from Lansing, but a lot of regulars just stopped coming in."
"It took us a while to put two-and-two together, but when we did I was just angry," Yale said.
Yale says she didn't know why business was so slow until about a week later, when local teens came into the store to tell her Davey's was being boycotted because it sponsored the GSA's float. Her oldest daughter co-founded Mason's GSA several years ago. Since the parade, Yale says sales have dropped 86 percent.
Yale said this isn't the first time her store has come under attack from the community. "We've been accused of selling drugs, and worshipping Satan here too," she said. |
As Feral pointed out,
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