Starbucks is latest corporation ditching Pride to protect profits, showing rainbow capitalism’s limits

WASHINGTON—Somebody tell Starbucks’s bosses that June is Pride Month. They’ve gone in the other direction. An internal memo, leaked to Starbucks Workers United—the Service Employees-backed group that’s aiding the grassroots union organizing drive at the coffee giant—orders local store managers to take down and remove all pro-LGBTQ material from their stores. This is, of course, … Continue reading Starbucks is latest corporation ditching Pride to protect profits, showing rainbow capitalism’s limits