Target Pulls Some Pride Items After MAGA Violence

The Associated Press reports:

Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. “Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” Target said in a statement Tuesday.

”Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.” Target confirmed that it has moved its Pride merchandise from the front of the stores to the back in some Southern stores after confrontations and backlash from shoppers in those areas.

Target’s Pride month collection has also been the subject of several misleading videos in recent weeks, with social media users falsely claiming the retailer is selling “tuck-friendly” bathing suits designed for kids or in kids’ sizes.

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Target is removing certain items from its stores ahead of Pride month after an intense backlash from some of its customers, including violent confrontations with workers. https://t.co/cJsNN6m73F

— ABC News (@ABC) May 24, 2023

CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage.

This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country.

Wake up America.

This doesn’t stop here.… https://t.co/1vRgukaT0g

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 24, 2023

Target has had a Pride collection for 10 years. It’s not new. What is new is that bigots have learned that threatening violence works, so Target capitulated. And given the nature of violence in this country, part of me can’t blame them. In 2023, violent intimidation works https://t.co/VGm3OpKcI9

— Eric Ansley Diaz ?️‍? (@GeekBoyEric) May 24, 2023

BOOM
And it’s only been 1 day!!! Don’t let up!https://t.co/jS5uzIgOp3

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) May 24, 2023

.@Target claims that they are removing Pride merchandise from their stores to protect the security of their employees.

The message that anti-LGBTQ+ bigots and fascists will receive from this is that making violent threats works.

They will get worse.

— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) May 24, 2023