San Francisco Pride says Google can still participate in parade after ~100 Googlers petitioned it to drop Google as a sponsor over handling of LGBTQ+ issues
and successful April Glaser / Slate : The Wayfair Walkout Is a Different Kind of Tech Worker Protest Christine Fisher / Engadget : Google employees petition to ban the company from SF Pride Alyssa Newcomb / Fortune : San Francisco Pride Refuses to Ban Google From Its Parade, But Says They ‘Must Do More’ Cara Curtis / The Next Web : Google's LGBTQ+ employees unsuccessfully demand SF Pride to remove company from parade Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Googlers lobby SF Pride to exclude their employer over its handling of YouTube controversy NBC Bay Area : Google Will Participate in SF Pride, Event Organizers Say Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Google's LGBT employees don't want the company at Pride Levi Sumagaysay / Mercury News : Google to stay in SF Pride parade despite employees' call to kick it out Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : SF Pride says it won't exclude Google from the Pride parade Jack Morse / Mashable : Google employees ask SF Pride to boot their employer from parade Erin Carson / CNET : Google employees petition SF Pride to oust company from parade Buster Hein / Cult of Mac : LGBTQ employees want Google kicked out of SF Pride parade John Bowden / The Hill : Google employees call for it to be kicked out of San Francisco Pride Evann Gastaldo / Newser : Google Workers to SF Pride: Boot Google From Parade Paige Leskin / Business Insider : Almost 100 Google employees are petitioning San Francisco Pride to ban Google from sponsoring … Tweets: Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : Exclusive: Nearly 100 Google employees are petitioning San Francisco Pride to dump Google as a sponsor and exclude it from having a contingent in this weekend's march https://www.bloomberg.com/... “for those whose very right to exist is threatened, we say there is no time to waste” Carlos Maza / @gaywonk : Holy shit. A group of almost 100 @Google employees is directly asking @SFPride to exclude Google from this year's Pride parade over @YouTube's failure to deal with anti-LGBT abuse. That's some serious courage. https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/bWDNlHoyZN Carlos Maza / @gaywonk : These @Google employees are risking their jobs to protest @YouTube's exploitation of the LGBT community. This is what Pride looks like. https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/XVc1cpIVhy Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : Update: SF Pride Celebration Committee says Google will still participate in the parade. The non-profit said that Google “has historically been a strong ally to LGBTQ+ communities” but “can and must do more to elevate and protect the voices of LGBTQ+ creators on their platforms” https://twitter.com/... @pinboard : Big props to the Googlers taking a stand today: https://www.bloomberg.com/... @racemicmixture : Not a chance in hell that SF Pride would forego their Google sponsorship, but I'm proud of the courage it took these employees to speak up and ask. https://medium.com/... Alistair Barr / @alistairmbarr : “Pride must not provide the company a platform that paints it in a rainbow veneer” #SFPride https://twitter.com/... Dri / @drixander : Google staff petition SF Pride to exclude company from event, escalating pressure to overhaul its handling of hate speech. https://www.bloomberg.com/... A prohibition the tech company issued may violate fed law protecting workplace activism & CA law protecting wkrs' political activity. Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : “Almost 100 Google employees are urging the organizer of this weekend's San Francisco Pride parade to kick the company out of the celebration, escalating pressure on the internet giant to overhaul its handling of hate speech online.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Carlos Maza / @gaywonk : The @Google employees asking @SFPride to kick Google out of the parade have published a powerful letter explaining their position: “Pride must not provide [@YouTube] a platform that paints in a rainbow veneer of support for [LGBTQ+] persons.” https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : Their petition: https://medium.com/... “Whenever we press for change, we are told only that the company will ‘take a hard look at these policies.’ But we are never given a commitment to improve,& when we ask when these improvements will be made, we are always told to be patient” https://twitter.com/... Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : Signature-gathering for this started late Monday, according to a person involved, after a Google's LGBTQ+ community inclusion lead informed an activist employee that staff would not be allowed to protest while participating in Google's Pride contingent https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : As long as YouTube “allows abuse and hate and discrimination against LGBTQ+ persons, then Pride must not provide the company a platform that paints it in a rainbow veneer of support for those very persons,” Google employees write (with full names listed) https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer