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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 07:55 AM
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Anti-gay Maoist fag-hag Brian in furor over Macy's Gay Pride Store Display
Edited on Sat Jun-03-06 08:02 AM by IanDB1
Excerpted from Article Hate's email rantings:

<snip>

2. AND NOW. . .TAKE ACTION! In your face: Macy's in downtown Boston has prominent display window promoting homosexuality for "Gay Pride Week". ===

There's something quite infuriating about a department store that you've patronized for decades blatantly doing something like this. It's like a slap in the face. Right in one of their main windows, a tribute to "gay pride week" (now taking place in Boston) -- featuring two men, one in some kind of a skirt. And if you look closely (see our link) you'll notice that they seem to be male mannequins with extended breasts. What's that all about??







This is as blatant as anything we've ever seen. Macy's needs to hear from America. Whatever perverse group they are pandering to, they obviously think they can offend you with impunity as you walk by their store and get away with it.

Your message to Macy's is simple: We don't care how long "gay pride week" last. THIS COMES DOWN RIGHT NOW!!

Even if you don't live in Massachusetts you should do this. This could soon happen to you if it's not stopped!
This is very important! We'll keep you posted on what happens.

(Links to hate site deliberately omitted).

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dcfirefighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 07:57 AM
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1. Great subject title
couldn't resist reading, with a subject line like that.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:04 AM
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3. Thanks! Let's contact Macy's and show them some support!
<snip>

(The Boston Macy's office is open on Saturdays. You can also call on weekends and leave a message.) And if you're in downtown Boston we encourage you to personally visit the Macy's Boston office, which is in the lower level (just below street level) in the store, just behind the Juniors Department.
Even if you don't live in Massachusetts this is important.

Macy's East Coast Office (New York City):
Mike McNamus

800-264-0069 ext. 2337

Macy's East Coast Public Relations (New York City):
Elina Kazan

212-494-4624

Manager, Boston Macy's Dept. Store:
Linda Stahley

617-357-3164

Special Events Coordinator, Boston office:
Robin Rydell

617-357-2727

President, Macy's East Coast Operations
James Gray
Executive Offices, 151 W. 34th St.
New York, NY 10001
212-695-4400

EMAIL and customer complaint number: We received this email from Macy's on Friday:

Thank you for your recent e-mail. We appreciate you taking the time to
contact us.

Below is the address we have for complaints Please note, if you do have
a complaint with a certain store, it is suggested that you first address
it to the store manager. This is the one of the fastest ways to to
resolve an issue.

Macy's Presidential Complaints
PO Box 8215
Mason, OH 45040
ExecOffice@fds.com

If you have any further questions, please e-mail us at
customerservice@macys.com or call us at 1-800-289-6229. Our office
hours are Monday through Saturday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Sunday 11:00 AM
to 7:00 PM.

Sincerely,

Brandon Watt
Internet Customer Service

http://www.macys.com

(link to hate site deliberately omitted)
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:14 AM
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7. Oh there it is. Thanks for posting the contact info.
I will email a letter to the Mason, Ohio address, but will try to find the Boston store first.

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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:03 AM
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2. He sounds kind of jealous - over the window display for a group other than
his, about two males being able to be displayed in public (while he cowers in his closet) and even about the build of a couple of plastic mannequins - like he's frustrated since they're locked up behind glass and he can't go run his fingers over their chests to see what it feels like..

We need a name for bleating closet cases - closet boys who stay in there and keep quiet really do need to be distinquished from these self loathing fundraisers.
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GymGeekAus Donating Member (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 01:38 PM
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16. We have a name for them.
Log Cabin Republicans. :)

Or more seriously, self-hating homosexuals. As Sam Seder (the Majority Report) calls them, they're the "Anti-Gay Gay Republicans." Apparently he devotes 40 pages to them in his new book.
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moose65 Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:05 AM
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4. geez louise!
"blatant"? What the hell is he talking about? It looks like 2 mannequins with beachwear. A skirt? Isn't that a beach towel wrapped around one of them??? Talk about your over-reacting!!! LOL
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:06 AM
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5. Oh good God!
Don't you people have anything more important to worry about?
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:11 AM
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6. If we can get the link to the store real quick, we can write in support of
the display.

If two gay mannequins make somebody insecure, I would suggest they speak with a trained health care professional.

Otherwise, I don't see any harm in the display at all.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:05 PM
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8. Actually I do have a problem with that display.
Where's the lesbian? Other than that, this woman really needs to find something better to freak out over.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 04:02 PM
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10. I think the display is a protest against NORML...
That's why the manequins have dude-boobs.

They're warning that if men smoke pot, they'll get boobs.

Doese Brian Camschtuper endorse smoking marijuana?

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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 01:36 PM
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9. gynecomastia
what are these people thinking. That is too bizarre, those look more like straight guy pecs than any I've ever seen on a gay man. How weird.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 04:21 PM
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11. man boobs for everyone!
hey when your pecs are perky they can put some stress on a t-shirt - and stress on cloth doth virtue have.

that article sounded like a rabble rouser trying to get the village to pick up their pitchforks and torches . . . (yawn)

p.s., that's not a "skirt thing". It's a sarong gone wrong.
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UncleSepp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 05:18 PM
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12. Won't you play... another somebody done somebody's wrong sarong...
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 05:31 AM
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13. Anti-gay Maoist fag-hag Brian's still worked-up into a lather over this...
Edited on Tue Jun-06-06 05:52 AM by IanDB1
=== 1. Macy's in downtown Boston CONTINUES its prominent display window promoting homosexuality. KEEP CALLING - don't give up!! ===

We've never seen anything like this. Macy's Department Store in downtown Boston continues to pay their tribute to "gay pride week" (now taking place in Boston) -- with a big street-side display featuring two men, one in some kind of a skirt. And if you look closely (see our link) you'll notice that they seem to be male mannequins with extended breasts -- unlike any mannequins we've ever looked at.

Macy's obviously thinks they can offend you with impunity as y ou walk by their store, and get away with it.

Macy's store window

More pictures:
http://www.massresistance.com/docs/events06/pride06/macys/

After a weekend, and Monday of their getting your calls, they still don't get it. Polite (most of the time) but condescending, they don't seem to think this is important enough to bother with. We were told by someone in their executive offices that they're "talking about it" and they'll send me a letter. Another executive told us that we were only the third ones to call him. (We really doubt that.) In the Boston office, they're a little more snippy; they've got much better things to do than talk to the likes of you.

The bottom line: Macy's executives obviously don't think you're serious about this.

Every one of you, no matter where you live, needs to make AT LEAST one phone call and/or email EVERY DAY until Macy's gets the message -- take this down NOW!

You can start with these:

Mr. Terry Lundgren, President if Macy's
(New York City)
800-264-0069


Linda Stahley
Manager, Boston Macy's
617-357-3164

James Gray
President, Macy's East Coast Operations
Executive Offices, 151 W. 34th St.
New York, NY 10001
212-695-4400

Macy's Presidential Complaints
PO Box 8215
Mason, OH 45040
ExecOffice@fds.com

Customer Service Office:
800-289-6229
Hours: Monday - Saturday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
customerservice@macys.com

And if you're in downtown Boston we encourage you to personally visit the Macy's Boston executive office, which is in the lower level (just below street level) in the department store, just behind the Juniors Department.


It's no accident: Macy's is prominently mentioned in last Thursday's Boston Herald article on "Pride Week." (And don't get us started on how a once "conservative" newspaper now does puff pieces celebrating these kinds of depraved events, as if it were just another fun thing to do in the summer. The Herald is long gone.)

Pride and joy: Hub diversity fest grows by leaps and bounds
By Sean L. McCarthy
Boston Herald
Thursday, June 1, 2006


<snip>

“We obviously have an election coming up,” said Linda DeMarco, president of the all-volunteer Boston Pride Committee. “We also have more rights than other states.”

Which means more reason for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities to be proud.

DeMarco said it’s also gotten a lot easier to coordinate Boston Pride since she first volunteered eight years ago. “More of the city is embracing gay pride,” she said.

At the Downtown Crossing Macy’s, one department store window is devoted to Boston Pride, complete with a flag, calendar of events and two male mannequins in pride shirts.

“It’s great,” DeMarco said.

<snip>

And by the way, what else goes on during "Boston Pride Week" that Macy's and all our political dignitaries are celebrating? Here are just a few examples:

Here's the website of the "Boston Dyke March", slated for this Friday in Boston.
http://www.bostondykemarch.com/

From two years ago, here's a photo from the Boston Pride Parade of (we're not kidding) women who have had their breasts surgically removed, and are marching as bare-chested "men."
http://www.massresistance.com/docs/events06/pride06/macys/#dykemarch


MAKE THOSE CALLS!!!

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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 07:07 PM
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14. Brian, get back to your job shoveling manure.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:10 AM
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15. I have another idea.
We need to organize a fast campaign to contact BRIAN and tell him to mind his own fuc*ing business. No one has elected him the cultural minister for the city of Boston. Period.

And then we need to start fighting back. Perhaps every ad they take out in the paper, everything on their organization door, demand it be removed. Claim that Brian isn't really religious - he's a cult member. A danger to children.
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 02:47 PM
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17. Macy's pulled the display
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