AT&T, Charter Communications, GM and more donated to politicians backing anti-LGBTQ laws -- and are now loudly celebrating Pride Month

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "True corporate allies do not donate to candidates or elected officials who introduce, vote yes, or otherwise support anti-LBGTQ legislation or block passage of pro-LGBTQ legislation like the Equality Act," Ellis said.
46% : The latter sum includes a $100,000 donation to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican who this year including one that forces trans children to use the bathroom of the sex they were assigned at birth, as well as bans talk of sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through fifth grade deemed "not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate."
40% : And AT&T donated $50,000 to Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has signed legislation widely known as into law to ban any discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity not deemed "age appropriate or developmentally appropriate" through the third grade.

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