The organization’s response: “We love and serve everyone.” But one year ago this week, when Chick-fil-A distanced itself from the organization because of its anti-LGBTQ reputation, mainstream outlets such as CNN, Vox and USA Today started asking the question: Has the Salvation Army changed its anti-LGBTQ ways? ![]() These reports serve to counter the mainstream media’s glowing coverage of red kettles, smiling Santas and cheery bell-ringers. In 2017, Think Progress reported on more allegations of discrimination against trans people, this time at the Salvation Army’s substance abuse center in New York City. “Supporting the Salvation Army this season, whether by tossing your change in their red kettles or donating your used goods to their resale shops, means assisting an aggressively anti-gay church in furthering its goals of discrimination,” Jones wrote. Often the critical reports link to trans activist and writer Zinnia Jones’ 2013 piece in the HuffPost, updated in 2016, outlining 27 years of anti-LGBTQ incidents. The organization’s reputation and its l ong and horrid history of discrimination is reported in LGBTQ media each and every holiday season. Let’s be clear: The view of the vast majority of the LGBTQ community is nothing at all like that of the cisgender straight world. ![]() But will the Salvation Army help all those people, even those who are LGBTQ?
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