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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Io Dodds

Trump is going after LGBTQ rights and big companies have responded by shunning Pride Month

A staircase covered by a rainbow flag at Four Freedoms Park in New York City in June 2019 — the largest such flag in the city, according to organizers. - (AFP/Getty)

Every June, like clockwork, multinational corporations — from banks to fashion houses to petrochemical giants — would suddenly don their Pride-themed logos on social media.

Many LGBT+ people found it shallow, and mocked the phenomenon as a cynical exercise in "rainbow-washing". But just a few years since the wash of rainbow feeds, even this skin-deep show of support is conspicuous by its absence.

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