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Target currently does not have a location in San Francisco, but it wants one, which is perhaps why it has offered to provide services to the trauma unit at San Francisco General. But to get that contract, the city would have to waive its long-standing requirement that all companies involved in city business offer the same benefits to LGBT employees …

Infantile? Absolutely. Did I LOL? Hells yeah.

Tom Emmer’s got seven kids and he uses them all to shill for his bid for Minnesota governor.

While the Human Rights Campaign has come out uncharacteristically forcefully against Target, the company continues to enjoy a 100% rating on HRC’s lauded Corporate Equality Index. Yesterday HRC’s Fred Sainz told Michelangelo Signorile that it’s just too complicated to change the Index right now. Signorile: Sainz went onto again explain how complicated it supposedly is to change the Corporate Equality …

Queer Rising made a customer service announcement at a Target in Madison, Wisconsin, much to the annoyance of store management.

MoveOn.org’s national ad buy for their anti-Target campaign has been rejected by MSNBC. MSNBC spokeswoman Alana Russo says the commercial submitted by the liberal group MoveOn.org violates its advertising policy by directly attacking an individual business. MoveOn announced plans earlier this week to spend $35,000 airing the ad on MSNBC nationally and on three networks in the Twin Cities. The …

MoveOn.org has launched a television campaign against Target. The campaign begins tomorrow on three networks in Minnesota and will air nationally on MSNBC.

(Tipped by JMG reader Aaron)

From this clip’s description: Irate activists visited Target HQ to extend the boycott of Target Stores for the $150,000 contribution the corporation made to a group supporting Republican Tom Emmer. Emmer is seen as an enemy of LGBT people, immigrants and other groups. Randi Reitan, the woman seen on YouTube last week cutting up her Target charge card to protest …

Abe Sauer writes at The Awl: The truth is not that Target and its leadership have suddenly turned on their commitment to gay rights. It’s more that it never really existed to begin with. Further research shows that Target has funneled significant funding to the most socially conservative of Republicans and that it boasts a frightening culture of anti-gay candidate …

Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has bowed to national outrage and issued an apology (just to his employees, so far) for funding an anti-gay Minnesota PAC to the tune of $150,000. Steinhafel’s letter says the company “will more closely scrutinize” political donations in the future. Minnesota Forward, the recipient of Target’s dough, funneled the money to anti-gay candidate for governor, Tom …

And since the GOP filibustered the Disclose Act last week, we may often never know which corporations are behind these kinds of campaigns. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan)

Openly gay pop singer Matt Morris took his video camera to Best Buy to record their company-wide promotion of his new album, only to later learn that like Target, they too had contributed a ton of money to anti-gay candidate for governor of Minnesota, Tom Emmer. Morris then edited this clip to include a plea for his fans to bring …

Via Towleroad, here’s a Minnesota mother of a gay son making what she says is her final shopping trip to her local Target “until they make this right.” It’s a lovely video.

Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has sent a letter to all employees defending the company’s track record on LGBT issues. This comes after the revelation that the retail giant had donated $150K to a Minnesota group that funds the campaign of a candidate with ties to an anti-gay Christian rock band. The band and its leader openly call for the executions …

Over at SFist, Matt Baume makes a stunning discovery. Bradlee Dean, the frontman of a Christian rock band in Minnesota called You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, recently said that Muslim countries that execute LGBTs are “more moral than even the American Christians,” plus some mouth-foaming about gays engaging in abominations and child molestation. Ugh. So what’s the Target …

On what is supposed to be one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, a few blocks from my mother’s house in Orlando I found this brand new and massive SuperTarget nearly deserted, with only two of two dozen checkout lanes open. RELATED: This SuperTarget is in a development cringingly called “SoDO“, the “South of Downtown Orlando” area. Eeesh.

In conjunction with Fashion Week, Target will open four “Bullseye Bodegas” around Manhattan on Friday where shoppers will get “exclusive previews” and “chic deals” on the new lines of the company’s designer partnerships. The stores will only be open through Monday and are located in Midtown, Soho, Union Square, and the East Village. Addresses here. See how they’ve faked up …