Google has quietly pulled out of a Pride event in response to hundreds of employees reportedly signing a petition against the event.
Google had reportedly been planning to sponsor a “Pride and Drag Show” event at the LGBTQ+ bar Beaux in San Francisco this Tuesday.
CNBC notes that “Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public” every year. And this particular year, the event at Beaux, which was to feature the performer “Peaches Christ,” was supposed to have been the “closing event.”
But then something happened.
This is amazing
“Google is distancing itself from a drag show in San Francisco after hundreds of employees signed a petition calling the performance a “direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians.”
The tech company removed a “Pride and Drag Show”… pic.twitter.com/hCfFUvGoBv
— Spence Rogers (@SpenceRogers) June 28, 2023
“A few hundred employees signed [a] petition opposing the drag performance, claiming it sexualizes and disrespects Christian co-workers, and accused Google of religious discrimination,” according to CNBC.
“Their provocative and inflammatory artistry is considered a direct affront to the religion beliefs and sensitivities of Christians,” the petition reportedly reads.
What happened next is remarkable: Google actually bent the knee.
“Google confirmed to CNBC that it no longer categorized the performance as a Google-recognized diversity, equity and inclusion event. The company set up a separate social gathering at Google offices that it is now encouraging employees to attend instead.
The news prompted a whirlwind of celebration on social media:
Good. We’re done being told we need to celebrate your degeneracy.
— Thylacine (@_Thylacine_) June 28, 2023
Good for these employees! Had about as much perversion as I can take. Glad regular LGB people are speaking up against this stuff too.
— Sandra (@SandraKM123) June 28, 2023
Good for Google
The pride people exposed themselves with their new slogan: We are coming for your children
— john (@dayoff317) June 27, 2023
This shit shouldn’t be making cnbc headlines. It’s ridiculous and has nothing to do with businesses.
Keep the sexual bullshit to yourselves in your private time.
Woke reporting is almost the top thing cnbc writes about now
— Dpurdy800m (@dpurdy800m) June 27, 2023
Must be more than just some employees, or else it wouldn’t generate news. Perhaps they realize that MOST people are now entirely sick of these degenerates. Same group of men dressed up as women chanting ” we’re coming for your children” guess we have to wait for the sperm.
— 1 of many @ usa (@SamRusso834271) June 28, 2023
In a statement, a Google spokesperson blamed an “internal team” for the fiasco, claiming that the team planned the drag event “without going through our standard events process.”
“While the event organizers have shifted the official team event onsite, the performance will go on at the planned venue — and it’s open to the public, so employees can still attend,” the spokesperson said.
“We’ve long been very proud to celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ community. Our Pride celebrations have regularly featured drag artists for many years, including several this year,” they added.
However, the spokesperson abstained from confirming whether or not Google pulled out of the event because of the petition.
As for the petition, CNBC says it “states that organizers complained to People Operations, Google’s human resources department, and claimed the venue violates one of Google’s event guidelines, which bans sexually explicit activity. The petition also demands an apology from organizers and promoters of the event.”
CNBC further notes that not all employees were down with the petition. Some complained that the petition’s complaints were too subjective and alleged that the petition was feeding the political culture wars.
“Employees also criticized Google leadership for what they viewed as the quiet removal of the event from the internal website and a buckling to petitioners’ pressure. A company spokesperson said changes to the event were communicated to a team employee resource group last week,” according to CNBC.
All this comes as more and more companies are bending the knee to critics, many of them parents, who’re concerned about LGBT+ culture being shoved down not only their throats but the throats of their children as well.
Most notably, Starbucks allegedly removed all its “Pride” decorations:
Breaking: Starbucks BANS pride decorations from all U.S. stores.
According to the union for Starbucks employees, Starbucks Workers United:
“In the middle of Pride Month, Starbucks BANS Pride decorations in store across the United States.” pic.twitter.com/r9pcM93ASy
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 13, 2023
For the last two weeks, Starbucks workers have taken to social media to report that the company is no longer allowing Pride decorations in-store. This seems to be the first year the publicly “pro-LGBTQ+” company has taken this kind of stance.
— Starbucks Workers United (@SBWorkersUnited) June 13, 2023
The company denied those reports, however.
“Despite public commentary, there has been no change to any of our policies as it relates to our inclusive store environments, our company culture and the benefits we offer our partners. We continue to encourage our store leaders to celebrate with their communities including for U.S. Pride month in June, as we always have,” wrote Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan last week, adding that the coffee giant does not approve of anyone “seeking to use our partners’ cultural and heritage celebrations to create harm or flagrantly advance misinformation for self-interested goals.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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