By July, it’s as if the sunshine was packed away like a Christmas tree only to be brought out next year. LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are all rainbows, the international symbol for the queer community, in June. Our families are hidden, and our youth are pitched to the streets by shameful parents who see leading companies of the world doing the same to us year-round. July through May we’re segregated by many American businesses as undesirables in most commercials and in retirement literature of the country’s biggest brokerage firms. Tying the two points above together, does much of corporate America go gay-for-pay in June to lure the $917 billion in estimated purchasing power of the queer community? Are we getting a nod of the cap simply because it makes financial sense but July through May we’re expunged from the business model?
