They come in four designs, emblazoned with words such as “harmony” and “pride.” Singer Gwen Stefani designed one shirt featuring a rainbow and a cloud that says, “LOVE IS LOVE.”
The $12.99 shirts will be sold on Target’s website through June, or while supplies last. The T-shirt promotion will raise up to $120,000 for the Family Equality Council, a Washington-based group that is part of a Minnesota coalition pushing to defeat the constitutional amendment. Supporters of gay marriage see Minnesota as having the potential to halt their long losing streak in statewide votes. The donation set off protests and calls for a boycott from a constituency that had seen Target as an ally. Target’s move comes two years after it endured a backlash from gay rights supporters for giving $150,000 to a campaign group backing the conservative Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, Tom Emmer, who narrowly lost to Democrat Mark Dayton in a race that went to an automatic recount. “It’s an insult to the overwhelming majority of their customers.” “Target is attacking traditional marriage, which is an incredibly misguided thing for them to have done,” said Chuck Darrell, spokesman for Minnesota for Marriage, a group campaigning to pass the constitutional marriage amendment. One organizer of gay marriage opponents warned that their displeasure could spread to 32 other states where voters have banned gay marriage. The Minneapolis-based retailer is taking heat in its home state, where voters will decide this November whether to put a gay marriage ban into the state constitution. angered gay marriage supporters with a political donation that benefited a fiery gay marriage opponent seeking the governor’s office, the retailer is now upsetting same-sex marriage opponents by selling T-shirts to raise money for a group working to defeat a gay marriage ban in Minnesota. We spent a lot of time selecting Pride merchandise that celebrates the LGBTQ+ & ally community.ST. We’ve removed the shirt from our online assortment & are in contact w/ the vendor. In a tweet to Felix, the site said: “Target respects the design rights of others & expects our vendors to do the same. Target has responded by pulling the tee from its site. The shirt has the words Equalidad emblazoned on it. The Target version features a similarly positioned flag. The words “La Bandera” sit below his artwork. “Is this how you support the queer Latinx community, by stealing the art of a gay Mexican artist? I’m curious to hear what you have to say!”Īlong his tweet, he shared images of his La Bandera piece, which features a partially furled LGBTQ flag set against a yellow background. “Target stole a design of mine and printed it on a T-shirt,” he wrote. RELATED: Queer Artist Felix D’Eon’s Illustrations Are Beautiful Depictions of LGBTQ Love
On Tuesday, Mexican artist Felix d’Eon took to Twitter to call out the chain for selling shirts seemingly lifted from his loteria-inspired prints. While it’s important that a major retailer sells LGBTQ items (Target has sold Pride items for about five years), it shouldn’t come at the expense of members of said community.
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Target offers a considerable graphic T-shirt line, which includes everything from shirts inspired by current TV shows, T-shirts that will fill you with nostalgia, and a Pride line.