One Thing: A Black Minister, His Trans Daughter and a Family's Journey to Acceptance
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🗓️ 25 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pride Month is wrapping up this week, and like in past years, many companies have run |
| 0:06.4 | promotions or created special designs for their products to show they stand in solidarity |
| 0:12.0 | with the LGBTQ-plus community. |
| 0:16.2 | This year, though, the pushback from the right |
| 0:19.0 | has felt a little different. |
| 0:21.0 | Brands like Target and Kohl's among a number of companies facing backlash, even |
| 0:25.6 | threats against their employees for promotions and merchandise reaching out to the LGBTQ |
| 0:30.9 | plus community. These social media-fueled boycotts are hitting some companies |
| 0:35.8 | where it really hurts. The bottom line. Just look at Bud Light. Sales have been |
| 0:40.7 | down ever since the beer maker partnered with transgender |
| 0:43.9 | influencer Dylan Mulvaney for a single Instagram post back in April. |
| 0:48.1 | Its parent company, Anheuser-Bush, is actually writing checks to distributors to make up for the lost business. |
| 0:54.0 | Inclusion is good for business and they know that. They're just trying to figure out how in the |
| 0:58.0 | world do you navigate like Target or Bud Light when you have so many people online that are demanding that you boycott a product simply |
| 1:05.8 | We're being inclusive |
| 1:07.4 | Beyond beer boycotts though that intolerance has also appeared this year in state houses across the country in the form of a variety of anti-LgBQ bills. |
| 1:19.1 | And on top of all of that, all of those barriers to acceptance, advocates say it's important to remember. |
| 1:25.7 | So many people in the LGBTQ community are still not embraced by members of their own families. |
| 1:33.0 | My guest this week is CNN's Adrian Brodus. |
| 1:36.0 | She has the story of a black trans woman, |
| 1:39.0 | her minister father, and why he decided to let love lead on his journey to accept her. |
| 1:46.5 | From CNN, this is one thing. |
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