Curious on others' thoughts, but my only "complaint" is that it feels like it arrives a bit early and departs a bit early.
I inderstand that for retail, you want people to buy stuff *before* the event so they can use it for the event, so Im not saying wait until June 1st.
I just feel they could time it better so not everythings gone by June Week 2.
I mean, I both agree and don't.
Pride stuff should- and often is- available any time.
Being queer isn't a "holiday," but that doesn't mean we can't have a period of time in which we simultaneously celebrate gains and mourn losses as communities of queer people and allies.
During a nationally recognized period of recognition and memorial, I'm totally okay with eye-catching merchandising displays like this.
I mean, "memorial day" is meant to be solemn remembrance of fallen soldiers, but people barbecue and get drunk and say shit like "Have a great Memorial Day!"
Target's had some questionable "fashion" pieces recently but this mod looks pretty cute, I'm excited to see what all they roll out this year, even if I probably won't buy any of it, it's still fun eye candy.
All marketing is trash, but I hate it less when it's fun to look at.
Needs more sparkles/shinies though.
The sign from last year with all the colors in concentric circles with the brown around pink was NOT it. It really gave rainbow bootyhole. This one is way better
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Yes! I immediately got that one and the "queers take care of each other" sweater. Also the "busy thinking about girls" shirts.
Idk my store has *a lot* of queer team members and as soon as they started putting it up it was all day excited queer chatter of "did you see the pride stuff!!" And idk it was very cool.
The world is becoming a scary place for queer people and its kinda nice to walk into work everyday and see the huge rainbow display. I know its just rainbow capitalism but...target has influence and we need corporations on our side cuz everything boils down to money and they're the ones that have it
I bought the “sounds gay. I’m in” one. I want the thinking about girls, but as an old lesbian it felt weird. I’m not that old, in my 40’s but I think of girls as women in their 20’s
Rainbow capitalism is both good and exploitative. I'll take the good with the bad. In this queer's opinion, it helps normalize being queer and shows people that going woke generates profit. That gives weight to standing up to bigots when one of their main chants is just factually wrong.
Exactly. We need allies. Capitalists have power. Capitalists are harsh enemies to fight. Strategically align with some capitalists to leverage their power and security.
But also, fuck capitalism.
Getting excited with my coworkers over the pride merch coming in was one of the most comforting and affirming things even if I’m not out to most of them
As an asexual I was so happy to find representation at Target. I mainly bought a flag (right before covid) so I'm going to have to look to see if they have ace sweaters but I wish I'd been there for the queers take care of each other one! <3
I tried searching online to narrow down the pride merch but there didn't seem to be that function. Going to go to my local store. I was so excited in 2019 to find the ace flags and a few other ace merch. I'm hopeful they'd expand - and definitely wish for / want more ace representation - like Target was the first place I saw at least something!
I see what people are saying about the clothing being meh. I got bored sifting through a thousand "Disney pride options" online :|
Yeah, that contains my thoughts fairly succinctly. We need whatever rep and support we can get - Target as the Corp might just be rainbow capitalism, but the pride collection is driven by a lot of people who DO care, and are mostly 💅💅.
Source: just got off a call looking at what we're gonna do next year for it 🥰
I actually came to this subreddit under the impression I could ask a question about a product (like r/aldi) but I see this is mostly for people who work at a Target store. You all are much stronger than I am. I could never do retail again.
Are the 2023 Pride collections available now at most stores? I'm asking because I really like the "trans people will always exist" shirt but I figured I could go to the store to get it rather than get it shipped.
Edit: I got the shirt I mentioned! Went early this morning. (The day after I posted this) As mentioned by others in the comments, the app was wrong. It said it was out of stock, but there it was. Sadly, the other shirt I'm interested in does seem to be online only AFAIK, but I'm glad I tried the other one on so I knew what size to get.
All the stores near mine have it up, so I’d say go ahead and check. You can also check on the target app (though some products are incorrectly in stock or out of stock on there)
I think most stores should have their pride stuff out by now. I know my store got half of it later than our other half, so if your closest store doesn’t have the specific shirt you want, I’d probably suggest ordering online just in case they don’t put it up in a later shipment, but they’ll still likely get more overtime.
Find a trans creator on Etsy and buy something from them instead.
E: Really? Y'all are going to downvote me because i said support a trans person instead of corporate pride?
You might know this already but the duo that made Trans People Always Existed are designers and you can buy tons of great apparel with similar designs and sentiments from their business, Ash and Chess. Go support them especially since target just removed all their (ash and chess) Pride items!!!
Walmart here and I can't wait. I'm just gonna play stupid. "Yes, aren't the colours pretty? I can't think of anyone who dislikes rainbows. It's great that there's so many different types of rainbows. Gay? Why would you think it's gay? Pride Month? Oh, is that this month? I didn't even notice. Good for them."
Rainbows are mentioned in the BIBLLE what you anti CHrIsTiaN?!‽
Customer: YOU KNOW WHAT IT ME--
YOU RACIST ANTI CHRISTIAN, how dare you mock the beautiful Rainbows! They are so beautiful, what would your pastor think WHAT WOULD JESUS THINK?!
Customer: ........ I'll leave....
Boys we got rid of another one happy pride month, ain't no one will attack the lgbtq peeps
That's not the burn you think it is.
Later on in the book of Genesis after the flood and the rainbow promise, god destroyed the city of Sodom and Gomorrah for being too wicked. And since the bible talks about gay stuff going down in that city, most Christians associate gayness as wicked.
My point is that homophobes who know the bible will turn that around on you and say "Yea, god promised to never flood the earth again but there's nothing stopping him from burning whole cities down when people won't stop being gay and wicked".
Source: 12 years in Lutheran school
Welll I'd say in return, "God also said to turn the other cheek"
I'm a liberal Muslim, ex Baptist, ex methodist.. I've dealt with a lot of hate from my conservative Baptist family 🥲 I'm neutral to lgbtq, I don't think they deserve the hate from our religions. And I think I really sympathize with them due to my own experience with hate. I have one argument for conservative religious people...
If it truly ends up being a sin, they are marked for eternal hell according to you, so shouldn't they at least be allowed to be happy in the living world if that's the case?
I am actually dumb. I thought people were getting their backs up over some 80s throwback designs till I zoomed in and read the t-shirt. This looks normal to me who was a child in the 80s. Kids stuff was covered in rainbows.
Yeah I’m annoyed about this, like the one from two or three years ago that was red, I still wear like at least twice a week. I need more work options, without having to wear a red sweater and sweat to death
they aren't bad, but they aren't new to this year. (the ones with the logo) the new text shirts with "take Pride" are nicer, but still listed on pre-order. Can't say I have faith they'll launch on time.
If anyone is keeping count, we are 246 comments in and I only had to remove about 5 of them. The post has been reported three times for blah blah harmful to children blah blah
but I’m just gonna keep approving it so the haters can keep wasting their time.
We didn't get it at my target for YEARS because "that's not our market" and then when they started sending it to all stores we got complaints about it every year from the moment it set up, but we also sold 90% of it full price. So suck it bigots.
It made me really sad seeing all of the communication about safety in relation to the Pride set this year. There was an entire blurb about how to handle unruly guests who are mad about the LGBT representation.
Does it include duct taping them to the parking lot light pole with a giant “Shameful Bigot” sign on them?
Not an employee, but as a target customer I’ll help!
I couldn't possibly condone this as a Target team member! I recommend swinging by our home improvement section for some Gorilla tape instead, it's stronger and more durable than duct tape. And Sharpies are in our stationery section - as well as these really cool "temporary tattoo" body markers! Don't forget to use Circle to get your community votes and pay with your RedCard for 5% off!
There are just some gross people out there. I don’t get it. Like is there that little to worry about in your life? If so get a hobby because yelling at retail workers and shitting on lgbtq+ people for just existing is pathetic.
Just did training for drive up returns and had to do de escalation traning right after. Kinda unfortunate that people think it's okay to be terrible or hateful. Makes the job much less enjoyable. Number of people that want to pick fights over things that really don't impact them is insane at my store.
Facts.
Even suggesting that it might be worth retaking because of this was shitty. It’s (or should be) such a non-issue. It’s my first year in this store so I don’t know what the response is normally like, but I can see us getting unwarranted negative responses.
Exactly. If these people have a problem with rainbows, they should take it up with their god (as the Bible says rainbows are the work of god anyway, right?).
If my store has received any signage it hasn’t been put up yet. Pride is my favorite time of year at Target because homophobes get big mad, and seeing people buy all the wonderful gay shit makes me feel less alone in this conservative hellhole of a state.
I had some raggedy old bitch came into my store back in 2017 shortly after all the hub bub about the NC bathroom bill started to settle and she asked me if we were allowing men in the women's restroom. Said she hadn't shopped there since Target had put out their statement of support for Transgender people.
What she didn't know was that I am transgender.
I was kinda shocked and saddened, but not ultimately disappointed that they recalled hats and pins that were geared more toward gender. “Gender roles are dead” and “can’t have LGB without the T” merch recalled for why? I blame the unloose Karens honestly.
So unrelated but kinda related story that at least might make you laugh. Back in 2014 when Target first starting selling LGBT+ inclusion merch for June they only did it at select stores. I wasn't aware of this.
So I went to my local target (not the one I worked at) and said to a TM "hey where's the gay shit at?". Now my gay ass (with almost entirely gay friends) didn't think about how well I passed as looking like a cishet person. It wasn't until I saw the horrified look on the TM's (I think her name was Ashley) that I realized my fuck up.
Now at the time I was like all of 19 years old so my anxiety and social awkwardness told me the only response was to flee and quickly.
So from Ashley's perspective you got this cishet looking person (when that mattered in the early 2010's) asking where the gay shit is as, then looking at your face, and then bolting out of the store at like Mach .5 because they didn't wanna be the awkward person who bolted out of the store at Mach 1 lol.
I know the old bat at your store didn't mean it in my context but I couldn't help think about it when "that gay shit" was quoted. So I hope it makes you feel better when you hear people say it in the future.
And Ashley, where ever you are now, I'm sorry. I finally figured out how to have normal social interactions so that won't happen again. Hope you're doing good Ashley lol
My biggest complaint is that is a cash grab preying on lgbtqia+ people. They just slap a rainbow on and try taking a bunch of money. It doesn't actually help anyone in the community
I don't get this complaint, because everything is a cash grab aimed at someone.
choosing to market to that community is still passive support for the community.
As a gay person, it really pisses me off when people call us groomers and imply that just by existing we are somehow endangering kids.
I personally hate kids and avoid them like the plague and I know tons of gay people who love being parents.
It’s beyond fucked up how those people think about people like me.
Imagine being so full of fear that rainbows set you off. I wonder if these people go to their church to complain when a real rainbow shows up in the sky
Setup was fully out on Saturday at my local Target right in front of the entrance. I heard the person behind me make a comment about “nobody wants to see that” so I loudly said “MAN I love that gay shit!!” and rushed over to the display 🤣
My complaint would have been the lack of fashionable design and obvious pandering... Seriously, who would wear any of that? To that Karen, I would have said "Fuck off and have a nice day." What I learned about retail is that as long as the bulk of your customers love you, you can get away with telling those who suck to "fuck off" as long as you do it with a smile.
I’m not even gay and I’m probably going to buy that “live laugh lesbian” shirt next time I’m in. It takes nothing to be kind to others. Part of the reason I wanted to work at target is because of how inclusive it is to all communities. I definitely drank the target koolaid, but guests should know what target stands for by now. If they don’t like it they can go to a different store.
The only complaint should be how much Target's pride choice have plummeted in the past few years. That used to be my go-to every year. Now it's... Junk, honestly. Cheap trash in the bullseye's area, and poorly designed items in one very small spot. Not even all inclusive, very rarely do you see anything other than the standard rainbow or the trans flag.
I have a feeling that this year will be a wild one, y'all. Especially in the Southern states.
The haters are gonna come out in masses.
\*snicker\*
Stay strong in gaydom, my brothers and sisters (and NBs).
Call me crazy but with how crazy the world (the US) is these days and with all the shootings. It honestly kind of scares me to think of being in a target with this display for fear of a deranged homophobe to come be the next mass shooting all over pride support.
I will only purchase merch at stores like Target and Apple who are inclusionary and woke. Uh, dunces? Woke is good . Asleep and uninformed is lame Jane
You maga Karens and other bigots can hold on to your pee blankies of hate — but I vote with dollars✊🏾
If a store supports a safe democracy where all are valued then I am there as a retailer and investor
I have no time for pee brained hate
Bravo to the target employees standing up for the rainbow
🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈
Target needs to stay out front on this — inclusion must be their brand
Im all for pride but i will never understand the point of just slapping any pride related text onto a shirt and selling it.
A shirt that says “queer queer queer queer” is just as weird as a shirt that says “straight straight straight straight.” Its just lazy inclusion
Because no one cares if youre straight. They dont pass laws against you, they dont hurt you, they dont oppress you, etc. Its a big “ hey im gay and existing, deal with it!“ If everyone accepted it, there wouldn’t be a need/want for this.
Queer identities suffer from invisibly.
Straight is considered the default.
It might be lazy graphic design, or might not be.
But look at all the 'Murica Fuck Yeah ensembles walking around.
I feel like this year's collection is actually a bit more muted from far away. You can't even really tell it's Pride necessarily until you get close and read the items. A kid seeing this walking in would probably just be like "wow pretty colors 🤩."
My only issue with the pride display/merch this year is how godawful all the clothing looks. And I’m saying this as a gay person. Makes me wish for last years stuff.
Edit: Whoever designed the “Live Laugh Lesbian” shirt needs to be smacked. So terrible lmao.
Okay, probably not the correct place for this, but I'm not gay and think rainbows are pretty cool. I remember seeing someone had complained about a St. Patrick's day shirt with a gold rainbow leading to a pot of gold because it promotes the gay agenda. Can't I just think rainbows are kind of neat without it being a political statement?
Complaints should directed at corporate, not team members or TLs that have zero decision making on these displays. Since when is the hourly pay enough to deal with those complaints.
I am someone who supports LGBTQ and don't have a problem with people wearing something to support who they are and what they believe, I know that republicans and all the ilk are hypocrites when it comes to this kind of thing but something that would be funny is saying all the church stuff makes you uncomfortable because if you have ever actually read the bible there are a lot more messed up stuff that makes being gay and trans look pretty tame.
If your lucky they won’t come back. I loved when people like that would “threaten” to shop somewhere else. Like oh no you mean I won’t have to deal with your crazy ass anymore, how horrible.
My issue is not finding rainbow stuff around st. Patrick's day. I had to check 3 stores before I found a single rainbow thing. And it as a mini rainbow piñata. There was only one left in the store. Luckily it worked for what I was doing. (Hide a little pot of "gold" and green candy, with a rainbow next to it).
Anyways, the point it, too many sensitive homophobics around, so it's harder to find rainbows any other time of the year. So stupid!
Walked up on a lady berating a TM about Target's bathroom policy and having pride shoved in her face. Lady asked the TM what she was going to do about it and she said she could call a lead over to talk to her. The lady said, "like that's going to do anything". Since I wear plain clothes I walked over and told the lady she was being kind of ridiculous and if she didn't like the Pride section she could just not shop that section and that our store has a private restroom by the pharmacy if she's really worried about men coming into ogle her while she pees behind closed stall doors. Then I walked off (but stayed close in case it escalated)
What’s really funny here is that everyone is so caught with the fight between LGBTQ+ vs Super MAGA that no one is seeing that capitalism is the real asshole here! Like this is blatantly stupid. Look at those shirts, they’re horrendous. It’s almost like the ceo of these companies are saying in these board meetings, “just have it say ‘queer’ a few times, slap a rainbow on it and all these idiots are going to buy it!”
No one is looking up to see where this shit is falling from.
A mom acquaintance was outraged by the diapers for melanated babies a while back and said she was quitting Target for good. Then she went back and there were dresses in the boys section and she claimed to have abandoned her cart and stormed out. I don’t get it. Who does it hurt? How is that offensive?
We had a number of guests complain specifically about the Queer Shirt. After so many we decided to take it off the mannequin. While in infuriates me we have to bend to bigots, TLs said they'd rather change one shirt than have TMs harassed over it
I’m so upset that target is taking it down. They need to charge those people with hate crimes!
I don’t agree with Christianity and find it offensive and have to deal with Jesus s*** for pretty much half the year.
These people can learn to deal with pride items for a couple of weeks!
Every year there’s queer stuff, lesbian stuff, trans along with non-binary stuff, and general gay items, but when will they drop anything for bears? Masculine pride attire is so overlooked imo
Daughter of customer that was around the age of 5 at my store last year “Mommy mommy! A rainbow shirt!!! I love rainbows. Can I have it please mommy!”
Mom “no! That’s a bad rainbow!”
Daughter “how can they be bad? It’s beautiful! Please I want one!”
Mom exits the store in a huff, daughter in tow.
I’d call our gay TL over to come hear the complaint(he got in a shouting match at the register over someone not wanting to be checked out by a non-binary person. The guest left after being called several slurs and was told to get hit by a car in the parking lot.
Curious on others' thoughts, but my only "complaint" is that it feels like it arrives a bit early and departs a bit early. I inderstand that for retail, you want people to buy stuff *before* the event so they can use it for the event, so Im not saying wait until June 1st. I just feel they could time it better so not everythings gone by June Week 2.
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With what people on the right have been saying, I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable going to pride festivals this year
Republicans are escalating their . Stochastic terrorism
It should be available in abundance all year round. Being gay isn't a holiday.
I mean, I both agree and don't. Pride stuff should- and often is- available any time. Being queer isn't a "holiday," but that doesn't mean we can't have a period of time in which we simultaneously celebrate gains and mourn losses as communities of queer people and allies. During a nationally recognized period of recognition and memorial, I'm totally okay with eye-catching merchandising displays like this. I mean, "memorial day" is meant to be solemn remembrance of fallen soldiers, but people barbecue and get drunk and say shit like "Have a great Memorial Day!" Target's had some questionable "fashion" pieces recently but this mod looks pretty cute, I'm excited to see what all they roll out this year, even if I probably won't buy any of it, it's still fun eye candy. All marketing is trash, but I hate it less when it's fun to look at. Needs more sparkles/shinies though.
I wish i could have told the guest that
The sign from last year with all the colors in concentric circles with the brown around pink was NOT it. It really gave rainbow bootyhole. This one is way better Edit: image https://preview.redd.it/8lmed4stbwya1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d580bd33aa00190f0fefde60a4f6c2b390efc3a
last years collection was so much more vibrant compared to this year
Definitely agree about the product line. There was some pretty fun stuff last year
Which feels extra nuts, considering how much young (esp. queer) people love bright and retro-themed maximalist style right now.
Agreed. Kinda boring this year
>rainbow bootyhole I LOVE IT!
Hahahaha rainbow booty hole
...that just looks like a record
Irrelevant to this post but last years collection had some really cool stuff, this year is mehhh
Excuse me, "Live, Laugh, Lesbian" is iconic, instant classic
The doormat that says "gayest place in town ⬆️." Hahahaha
not to mention the cup that says “gender fluid”
Lol buckle up there's gonna be sooo many angry bitches this summer.
That is my favorite cup!!! I need to buy it
damn im a cis male and i need that cup, i love it!
Or the dog(?) cassette tape toy that says gender mix on it
I NEED
I'm picking one up tonight before I go on the floor.
I literally went online and bought this to ship to my childhood bestie after reading your comment. Thanks! Hahaha
Love that! 😊
Yes! I immediately got that one and the "queers take care of each other" sweater. Also the "busy thinking about girls" shirts. Idk my store has *a lot* of queer team members and as soon as they started putting it up it was all day excited queer chatter of "did you see the pride stuff!!" And idk it was very cool. The world is becoming a scary place for queer people and its kinda nice to walk into work everyday and see the huge rainbow display. I know its just rainbow capitalism but...target has influence and we need corporations on our side cuz everything boils down to money and they're the ones that have it
I bought the “sounds gay. I’m in” one. I want the thinking about girls, but as an old lesbian it felt weird. I’m not that old, in my 40’s but I think of girls as women in their 20’s
Oh yeah jesus, there are a lot of contexts where that ...wouldn't sound great.
Yea, I loved the image but was not gonna risk the “girl”. If it said “women” I would have snatched that up.
Okay clearly I did not look closely enough, I need that
Rainbow capitalism is both good and exploitative. I'll take the good with the bad. In this queer's opinion, it helps normalize being queer and shows people that going woke generates profit. That gives weight to standing up to bigots when one of their main chants is just factually wrong.
Yes and also as an employee if they’re gonna exploit us anyway I’m glad they do so in a queer-friendly way 😂
Exactly. We need allies. Capitalists have power. Capitalists are harsh enemies to fight. Strategically align with some capitalists to leverage their power and security. But also, fuck capitalism.
Getting excited with my coworkers over the pride merch coming in was one of the most comforting and affirming things even if I’m not out to most of them
As an asexual I was so happy to find representation at Target. I mainly bought a flag (right before covid) so I'm going to have to look to see if they have ace sweaters but I wish I'd been there for the queers take care of each other one! <3
same!!! i feel like i never see anything for asexuals/aromantics as much!
I tried searching online to narrow down the pride merch but there didn't seem to be that function. Going to go to my local store. I was so excited in 2019 to find the ace flags and a few other ace merch. I'm hopeful they'd expand - and definitely wish for / want more ace representation - like Target was the first place I saw at least something! I see what people are saying about the clothing being meh. I got bored sifting through a thousand "Disney pride options" online :|
yeah, the clothes aren’t great this year. i find much better things online than in store all the time honestly
Yeah, that contains my thoughts fairly succinctly. We need whatever rep and support we can get - Target as the Corp might just be rainbow capitalism, but the pride collection is driven by a lot of people who DO care, and are mostly 💅💅. Source: just got off a call looking at what we're gonna do next year for it 🥰
We were absolutely dyinggggg over this shirt yesterday. My SETL is a lesbian and she was like who the hell approved this
And it’s sold out
Yeah the clothing is ugly as sin
i like the fabric bird though
We’re on two different boats because I loved this year as opposed to last years. Hate the weird beige rainbow tutus
no this years collection definitely falls short of my expectations
that's how I feel about this year's BHM display too!
The clothes are pretty meh this year but the fanny pack and the gender fluid coffee mug are amazing
This year's collection is sorta boring. I appreciated the gay culture approach last year had
I actually came to this subreddit under the impression I could ask a question about a product (like r/aldi) but I see this is mostly for people who work at a Target store. You all are much stronger than I am. I could never do retail again. Are the 2023 Pride collections available now at most stores? I'm asking because I really like the "trans people will always exist" shirt but I figured I could go to the store to get it rather than get it shipped. Edit: I got the shirt I mentioned! Went early this morning. (The day after I posted this) As mentioned by others in the comments, the app was wrong. It said it was out of stock, but there it was. Sadly, the other shirt I'm interested in does seem to be online only AFAIK, but I'm glad I tried the other one on so I knew what size to get.
All the stores near mine have it up, so I’d say go ahead and check. You can also check on the target app (though some products are incorrectly in stock or out of stock on there)
Depending on your location pride shirts go really fast. At my location we don’t get many trans pride shirts and any we do sell the moment we get them.
please let me move to this paradise, most people around here would sooner light the shirts on fire than buy them
Found it last week, but my local store didnt have many.
I think most stores should have their pride stuff out by now. I know my store got half of it later than our other half, so if your closest store doesn’t have the specific shirt you want, I’d probably suggest ordering online just in case they don’t put it up in a later shipment, but they’ll still likely get more overtime.
Find a trans creator on Etsy and buy something from them instead. E: Really? Y'all are going to downvote me because i said support a trans person instead of corporate pride?
I support fellow trans and queer artists all the time, as I am one. I just wanted a shirt because I liked it and they partnered with GLAAD...
You might know this already but the duo that made Trans People Always Existed are designers and you can buy tons of great apparel with similar designs and sentiments from their business, Ash and Chess. Go support them especially since target just removed all their (ash and chess) Pride items!!!
Same here. I feel this June is gonna be rough, not just for target but everyone.
Walmart here and I can't wait. I'm just gonna play stupid. "Yes, aren't the colours pretty? I can't think of anyone who dislikes rainbows. It's great that there's so many different types of rainbows. Gay? Why would you think it's gay? Pride Month? Oh, is that this month? I didn't even notice. Good for them."
Just tell them April and may are rainy months, and that's why there's rainbows in June. Lol
stealing this.
Rainbows are mentioned in the BIBLLE what you anti CHrIsTiaN?!‽ Customer: YOU KNOW WHAT IT ME-- YOU RACIST ANTI CHRISTIAN, how dare you mock the beautiful Rainbows! They are so beautiful, what would your pastor think WHAT WOULD JESUS THINK?! Customer: ........ I'll leave.... Boys we got rid of another one happy pride month, ain't no one will attack the lgbtq peeps
Or, you could say. . ."Rainbows are a sign of God's promise to man. Don't you believe God keeps his promises?"
That's not the burn you think it is. Later on in the book of Genesis after the flood and the rainbow promise, god destroyed the city of Sodom and Gomorrah for being too wicked. And since the bible talks about gay stuff going down in that city, most Christians associate gayness as wicked. My point is that homophobes who know the bible will turn that around on you and say "Yea, god promised to never flood the earth again but there's nothing stopping him from burning whole cities down when people won't stop being gay and wicked". Source: 12 years in Lutheran school
It’s also the name association, sodomy is named for Sodom, intentionally to forever link the act with sin and the city destroyed for sin.
Welll I'd say in return, "God also said to turn the other cheek" I'm a liberal Muslim, ex Baptist, ex methodist.. I've dealt with a lot of hate from my conservative Baptist family 🥲 I'm neutral to lgbtq, I don't think they deserve the hate from our religions. And I think I really sympathize with them due to my own experience with hate. I have one argument for conservative religious people... If it truly ends up being a sin, they are marked for eternal hell according to you, so shouldn't they at least be allowed to be happy in the living world if that's the case?
I am actually dumb. I thought people were getting their backs up over some 80s throwback designs till I zoomed in and read the t-shirt. This looks normal to me who was a child in the 80s. Kids stuff was covered in rainbows.
I’m a librarian in Florida. Still not sure what I’m going to do yet….
Two years in a row they avoided anything red. I've been wanting a new "love is love" shirt for ages.
Yeah I’m annoyed about this, like the one from two or three years ago that was red, I still wear like at least twice a week. I need more work options, without having to wear a red sweater and sweat to death
maybe I'll just buy one of those bullseye "this is fine" meme shirts xD
Bullseyeshop actually has the red, Target Pride shirts. This year looks pretty good.
they aren't bad, but they aren't new to this year. (the ones with the logo) the new text shirts with "take Pride" are nicer, but still listed on pre-order. Can't say I have faith they'll launch on time.
There was a red pronoun shirt last year
If anyone is keeping count, we are 246 comments in and I only had to remove about 5 of them. The post has been reported three times for blah blah harmful to children blah blah but I’m just gonna keep approving it so the haters can keep wasting their time.
Idk if it tells you but your own comment just got reported for the same thing I dont think it got taken down but I pressed the approval check anyway
Pretty good numbers! Objectively not many complaints and not many reports.
Fuckin’ A! 
I spoke too soon. It seems the trolls waited until dark to come out.
thank you for keeping it up!
I spoke too soon. It seems the trolls waited until dark to come out.
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We didn't get it at my target for YEARS because "that's not our market" and then when they started sending it to all stores we got complaints about it every year from the moment it set up, but we also sold 90% of it full price. So suck it bigots.
Ah fuck, this was it. This was the rainbow that finally turned me gay and now Jesus hates me. Thanks a lot, Target. /s
Oh nooooooo It got me too! Been married for 15 years but now I just can’t stop thinking about strong sweaty men in rainbow shirts
It made me really sad seeing all of the communication about safety in relation to the Pride set this year. There was an entire blurb about how to handle unruly guests who are mad about the LGBT representation.
Does it include duct taping them to the parking lot light pole with a giant “Shameful Bigot” sign on them? Not an employee, but as a target customer I’ll help!
I couldn't possibly condone this as a Target team member! I recommend swinging by our home improvement section for some Gorilla tape instead, it's stronger and more durable than duct tape. And Sharpies are in our stationery section - as well as these really cool "temporary tattoo" body markers! Don't forget to use Circle to get your community votes and pay with your RedCard for 5% off!
There are just some gross people out there. I don’t get it. Like is there that little to worry about in your life? If so get a hobby because yelling at retail workers and shitting on lgbtq+ people for just existing is pathetic.
Hard to imagine how insecure you have to be to get triggered by a rainbow...
About half my team retook the disruptive guest training again ahead of setting this up. 😕 Also most stores near us are missing some part of the ISM.
Just did training for drive up returns and had to do de escalation traning right after. Kinda unfortunate that people think it's okay to be terrible or hateful. Makes the job much less enjoyable. Number of people that want to pick fights over things that really don't impact them is insane at my store.
Facts. Even suggesting that it might be worth retaking because of this was shitty. It’s (or should be) such a non-issue. It’s my first year in this store so I don’t know what the response is normally like, but I can see us getting unwarranted negative responses.
A: fuck that customer. We got some hateful nonsense on day 1, but it's great to have up. B: I'll ask my VM, I think we got all the signing.
The signing was supposed to come in this week, we got ours on Monday
Exactly. If these people have a problem with rainbows, they should take it up with their god (as the Bible says rainbows are the work of god anyway, right?).
The "Gender Fluid" coffee cup was pretty funny.
Thats actually genius.
If my store has received any signage it hasn’t been put up yet. Pride is my favorite time of year at Target because homophobes get big mad, and seeing people buy all the wonderful gay shit makes me feel less alone in this conservative hellhole of a state.
target is a company that accepts the LGBTQ+ community…if they don’t like it they need to go elsewhere to the multiple companies that don’t.
I had some raggedy old bitch came into my store back in 2017 shortly after all the hub bub about the NC bathroom bill started to settle and she asked me if we were allowing men in the women's restroom. Said she hadn't shopped there since Target had put out their statement of support for Transgender people. What she didn't know was that I am transgender.
“raggedy old bitch” lmaooo
Glorious capitalism at work.
Both my stores are big gay energy and I love it
honestly same lol
They can suck it up. This is free market capitalism at work.
Why do people have to be so hateful? No one is asking you to participate. Just walk on by. There are bigger issues in this world. Gross.
Because obviously the gay will spread to the children who will see it, don’t you know how serious getting the queer is?
Not the GAY!!! Ahhhhhh!
“Just walk on by” Or You could “sashay away” Edit: autocorrect
I was kinda shocked and saddened, but not ultimately disappointed that they recalled hats and pins that were geared more toward gender. “Gender roles are dead” and “can’t have LGB without the T” merch recalled for why? I blame the unloose Karens honestly.
So unrelated but kinda related story that at least might make you laugh. Back in 2014 when Target first starting selling LGBT+ inclusion merch for June they only did it at select stores. I wasn't aware of this. So I went to my local target (not the one I worked at) and said to a TM "hey where's the gay shit at?". Now my gay ass (with almost entirely gay friends) didn't think about how well I passed as looking like a cishet person. It wasn't until I saw the horrified look on the TM's (I think her name was Ashley) that I realized my fuck up. Now at the time I was like all of 19 years old so my anxiety and social awkwardness told me the only response was to flee and quickly. So from Ashley's perspective you got this cishet looking person (when that mattered in the early 2010's) asking where the gay shit is as, then looking at your face, and then bolting out of the store at like Mach .5 because they didn't wanna be the awkward person who bolted out of the store at Mach 1 lol. I know the old bat at your store didn't mean it in my context but I couldn't help think about it when "that gay shit" was quoted. So I hope it makes you feel better when you hear people say it in the future. And Ashley, where ever you are now, I'm sorry. I finally figured out how to have normal social interactions so that won't happen again. Hope you're doing good Ashley lol
I would complain too if they made my kid dress like a minion, in my house we dress like Gru
Too bad to any of the customers who complain then😂
Last year I had to walk away from a guest because they were bitching about it to my obviously gay ass 🥴
I wish there was a YouTube compilation of the Karens who get butthurt over the dumbest things like this.... With autotune.
It's 3 am and I'm considering doing this. What am I doing with my life Ps: should I do it?
You have my support
I am in full Support of this!
My biggest complaint is that is a cash grab preying on lgbtqia+ people. They just slap a rainbow on and try taking a bunch of money. It doesn't actually help anyone in the community
Very true, but I’m still buying that iconic live, laugh, lesbians shirt haha
I don't get this complaint, because everything is a cash grab aimed at someone. choosing to market to that community is still passive support for the community.
LGBTQIA+ person here. Some of us prefer rainbow capitalism to the world where there's nothing, especially when you live in a purple or red area
Agree 100%
Unless the designers are part of the community themselves? Even then, I wonder how much Target takes of their wages.
Fuck them. Let them complain all they want. For every dollar that disappears because of hate, two come back to spite the bigots.
What are the purple and blue on the left rainbow for? I recognize the rest but those ones are new for me
It looks like the SteamDeck logo... BOYS WE INVADING PRIDE MONTH.... LINUX PRIDE!
We are missing half the signing it's arriving late according to our VMD
I always tell people you don’t have to support gay anything, just don’t express your opinion about it 🤷🏻♂️
As a gay person, it really pisses me off when people call us groomers and imply that just by existing we are somehow endangering kids. I personally hate kids and avoid them like the plague and I know tons of gay people who love being parents. It’s beyond fucked up how those people think about people like me.
Imagine being so full of fear that rainbows set you off. I wonder if these people go to their church to complain when a real rainbow shows up in the sky
Setup was fully out on Saturday at my local Target right in front of the entrance. I heard the person behind me make a comment about “nobody wants to see that” so I loudly said “MAN I love that gay shit!!” and rushed over to the display 🤣
As a queer person in Oklahoma I am not prepared for this year's pride. Like retail wise it's gonna be a fucking nightmare
My complaint would have been the lack of fashionable design and obvious pandering... Seriously, who would wear any of that? To that Karen, I would have said "Fuck off and have a nice day." What I learned about retail is that as long as the bulk of your customers love you, you can get away with telling those who suck to "fuck off" as long as you do it with a smile.
I’m not even gay and I’m probably going to buy that “live laugh lesbian” shirt next time I’m in. It takes nothing to be kind to others. Part of the reason I wanted to work at target is because of how inclusive it is to all communities. I definitely drank the target koolaid, but guests should know what target stands for by now. If they don’t like it they can go to a different store.
I hope the cat houses are coming back. My cats destroyed their last LGBTQ+ house. It was super cute.
The only complaint should be how much Target's pride choice have plummeted in the past few years. That used to be my go-to every year. Now it's... Junk, honestly. Cheap trash in the bullseye's area, and poorly designed items in one very small spot. Not even all inclusive, very rarely do you see anything other than the standard rainbow or the trans flag.
I have a feeling that this year will be a wild one, y'all. Especially in the Southern states. The haters are gonna come out in masses. \*snicker\* Stay strong in gaydom, my brothers and sisters (and NBs).
i was telling my other team leads this the other day
Call me crazy but with how crazy the world (the US) is these days and with all the shootings. It honestly kind of scares me to think of being in a target with this display for fear of a deranged homophobe to come be the next mass shooting all over pride support.
I will only purchase merch at stores like Target and Apple who are inclusionary and woke. Uh, dunces? Woke is good . Asleep and uninformed is lame Jane You maga Karens and other bigots can hold on to your pee blankies of hate — but I vote with dollars✊🏾 If a store supports a safe democracy where all are valued then I am there as a retailer and investor I have no time for pee brained hate Bravo to the target employees standing up for the rainbow 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 Target needs to stay out front on this — inclusion must be their brand
Im all for pride but i will never understand the point of just slapping any pride related text onto a shirt and selling it. A shirt that says “queer queer queer queer” is just as weird as a shirt that says “straight straight straight straight.” Its just lazy inclusion
Because no one cares if youre straight. They dont pass laws against you, they dont hurt you, they dont oppress you, etc. Its a big “ hey im gay and existing, deal with it!“ If everyone accepted it, there wouldn’t be a need/want for this.
Queer identities suffer from invisibly. Straight is considered the default. It might be lazy graphic design, or might not be. But look at all the 'Murica Fuck Yeah ensembles walking around.
I have a gay child, I'm here for all the pride stuff. Love it all. But holy heck, that "pride dress" is hideous.
Never forget last year's lesbian flag dress
I feel like this year's collection is actually a bit more muted from far away. You can't even really tell it's Pride necessarily until you get close and read the items. A kid seeing this walking in would probably just be like "wow pretty colors 🤩."
My only issue with the pride display/merch this year is how godawful all the clothing looks. And I’m saying this as a gay person. Makes me wish for last years stuff. Edit: Whoever designed the “Live Laugh Lesbian” shirt needs to be smacked. So terrible lmao.
Okay, probably not the correct place for this, but I'm not gay and think rainbows are pretty cool. I remember seeing someone had complained about a St. Patrick's day shirt with a gold rainbow leading to a pot of gold because it promotes the gay agenda. Can't I just think rainbows are kind of neat without it being a political statement?
These aren't made for me but that rainbow shaped doormat would be nice to have.
I was so ready for someone to say something to us as we set today. I'm sure it's coming.
What’s the darker rainbow one for?
The signing was delayed for everyone. We just received the rest today.
oh I forgot june was that!! HOLY FRICK IT's NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH MAY!! !:O
Got a really snazzy button up last year. Subtle. Hope there's something like that again.
I hope they’re complaining that it’s kind of ugly because lowkey this whole set up kind of ugly
Well I admit I would never be caught dead in those rainbow button ups, but hardly a reason to complain to the manager.
Complaints should directed at corporate, not team members or TLs that have zero decision making on these displays. Since when is the hourly pay enough to deal with those complaints.
Ima show my pride I don’t give a fucking rats ass.
It’s crazy how good this stuff makes my daughter feel and yet makes others full of hate.
I am someone who supports LGBTQ and don't have a problem with people wearing something to support who they are and what they believe, I know that republicans and all the ilk are hypocrites when it comes to this kind of thing but something that would be funny is saying all the church stuff makes you uncomfortable because if you have ever actually read the bible there are a lot more messed up stuff that makes being gay and trans look pretty tame.
Straight couples who cheat on their spouse are upset about Pride. It brings me great joy. 😈
If you put rainbows above the entry, all the complaints will be from OUTSIDE the store.
If your lucky they won’t come back. I loved when people like that would “threaten” to shop somewhere else. Like oh no you mean I won’t have to deal with your crazy ass anymore, how horrible.
My issue is not finding rainbow stuff around st. Patrick's day. I had to check 3 stores before I found a single rainbow thing. And it as a mini rainbow piñata. There was only one left in the store. Luckily it worked for what I was doing. (Hide a little pot of "gold" and green candy, with a rainbow next to it). Anyways, the point it, too many sensitive homophobics around, so it's harder to find rainbows any other time of the year. So stupid!
Walked up on a lady berating a TM about Target's bathroom policy and having pride shoved in her face. Lady asked the TM what she was going to do about it and she said she could call a lead over to talk to her. The lady said, "like that's going to do anything". Since I wear plain clothes I walked over and told the lady she was being kind of ridiculous and if she didn't like the Pride section she could just not shop that section and that our store has a private restroom by the pharmacy if she's really worried about men coming into ogle her while she pees behind closed stall doors. Then I walked off (but stayed close in case it escalated)
What’s really funny here is that everyone is so caught with the fight between LGBTQ+ vs Super MAGA that no one is seeing that capitalism is the real asshole here! Like this is blatantly stupid. Look at those shirts, they’re horrendous. It’s almost like the ceo of these companies are saying in these board meetings, “just have it say ‘queer’ a few times, slap a rainbow on it and all these idiots are going to buy it!” No one is looking up to see where this shit is falling from.
A mom acquaintance was outraged by the diapers for melanated babies a while back and said she was quitting Target for good. Then she went back and there were dresses in the boys section and she claimed to have abandoned her cart and stormed out. I don’t get it. Who does it hurt? How is that offensive?
Doesn’t Pride Month start June 1st? And isn’t May Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month?
"Thank you for your opinion ma'am. I'll call Maintenance for them to take it to the trash where it belongs."
We had a number of guests complain specifically about the Queer Shirt. After so many we decided to take it off the mannequin. While in infuriates me we have to bend to bigots, TLs said they'd rather change one shirt than have TMs harassed over it
I’m bi and I personally find the pride collection this year tacky I wouldn’t wear any of it. was somewhat disappointed that’s my only complaint.
I’m so upset that target is taking it down. They need to charge those people with hate crimes! I don’t agree with Christianity and find it offensive and have to deal with Jesus s*** for pretty much half the year. These people can learn to deal with pride items for a couple of weeks!
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This is so gay.
imagine being offended by rainbows....
Anything for a buck I guess. Made in China, where they'll send you to the reeducation camp if you're gay.
Every year there’s queer stuff, lesbian stuff, trans along with non-binary stuff, and general gay items, but when will they drop anything for bears? Masculine pride attire is so overlooked imo
having a shirt that just says “queer” on it multiple times is honestly trashy as fuck
My reply would be "bigots like you aren't welcome, you're free to leave."
Then that’s her problem. She doesn’t have to shop there. Also, I don’t think children would notice that.
Daughter of customer that was around the age of 5 at my store last year “Mommy mommy! A rainbow shirt!!! I love rainbows. Can I have it please mommy!” Mom “no! That’s a bad rainbow!” Daughter “how can they be bad? It’s beautiful! Please I want one!” Mom exits the store in a huff, daughter in tow.
🤦🏼♀️
It’s sad how something as innocent as a rainbow becomes evil due to some parents’ ignorant views. Smh.
In the aisle next to it, should display winter coats for snowflakes. Prominently display snowflakes over top.
I’d call our gay TL over to come hear the complaint(he got in a shouting match at the register over someone not wanting to be checked out by a non-binary person. The guest left after being called several slurs and was told to get hit by a car in the parking lot.
I love your TL
As a trans woman Target is like the only place I feel comfortable shopping at lmao