Our district manager (in like a fairly big city) told us we couldn't decorate for pride bc we "might get harassed". Meanwhile Starbucks in much smaller Southern towns do it anyway. And you'd think that with us being the ones who'd actually deal with it, and most of us being visibly queer anyway, that'd be our decision.

We still have our pride flag up. District manager is okay with it. Surprised corporate isn’t. It’s weird they told you it wasn’t allowed anywhere at the store.

I live in PHX and a store has a pride and a trans flag up !!

We were told the same thing. We were also told no stores will be allowed any decorations or flags yet, like you pointed out, they're in all kinds of marketing images. If you're going to tell us no stores can decorate, find, but at least do it consistently. It makes the stores that can't feel crappy.

no flags yet but it makes pride day cups… (of course its not *explicitly* stated)

Lol now I understand why they won’t order us pride shirts

yeah that's def weird bc at my store we blocked out our front windows with the rainbow and trans flags...

We have a pride flag up all the time.

Was it in the window or in the store? There’s an actual policy about no flags in the windows. If you just had it in the store though it should have been okay.

I don't know where these decorations are that you speak of. And you only highlighted two months out of 12! Our store wasn't even allowed a Christmas tree so I think it's just an attempt to maintain uniformityl of the displays and decorations in stores.

We have a diy pride wreath still up in july

we have ours up ... do it anyway and report him for discrimination

Can you elaborate on what "told by corporate" means?

We keep our pride and trans flags up in our store in Greenville despite discrimination from the community.

This is gonna get a lotta resistance but I can see both sides. If a corporation allows one group to celebrate "their" month then they must let every group celebrate "their" month. There is no way to keep these decorations uniform and honor the individual groups. Consider the time involved to decorate and undo, cleaning around decorations, safety measures, etc. That's a lot of extra consideration for something that should be done at home. I hope everyone can see this from a perspective of maintaining a corporate identity and being fair and reasonable to EVERYONE.

I am not home phobic or anti anything except guns and hate groups. Wasn't Pride Month in June? FYI July is Minority Group Mrntal Health Awareness month and French Heritage Month and August is National Civility Month! 💛