A search for Abprallen merchandise on on Tuesday showed “0” results. The products Target is withdrawing are being removed from all its US stores and from its website, Castaneda told Reuters. The company is removing items made by LGBTQ brand Abprallen, which has come under scrutiny for its association with Eric Carnell, according to Reuters. Screenshots and posts on social media show that Target previously sold a $25 slogan sweater with the words “cure transphobia not trans people” and an $18 “too queer for here” tote bag.

The items include “gender fluid” mugs, “queer all year” calendars and books for children aged 2-8 titled “Bye Bye, Binary,” “Pride 1,2,3” and “I’m not a girl.” Target offers more than 2,000 products, including clothing, books, music and home furnishings as part of its Pride Collection, Reuters reports. It's 'too early' to assess any potential Bud Light backlash, Anheuser-Busch CEO says For Target, the UK designer created a bag, tote and sweatshirt for adults with messages such as “We Belong Everywhere,” “Too Queer for Here,” and “Cure Transphobia.”īud Light cans are displayed at a baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds in Oakland, Calif., Friday, April 28, 2023. Opponents also highlighted Target’s products made by trans designer Erik Carnell, who often uses Satanic symbols in his designs.

Target is reviewing certain transgender swimsuits and children’s merchandise, Castaneda told Reuters, but no decision on those products has yet been made. Misinformation spread on social media that it was marketed to children, which it was not. Prominent right-wing activists, Republican political leaders and conservative media outlets have focused their attention on a women’s swimsuit that was described as “tuck friendly” for its ability to conceal male genitalia. Some people have thrown Pride items on the floor, Target spokesperson Kayla Castaneda told Reuters. The company told the Wall Street Journal that people have confronted workers in stores, knocked down Pride merchandise displays and put threatening posts on social media with video from inside stores. “Our focus now is on moving forward with our continuing commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community and standing with them as we celebrate Pride Month and throughout the year,” Target said in a statement Wednesday.

“Pride Month at Target is a time of affirmation and solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community,” the company says on its website. The company runs advertisements to appeal to LGBTQ customers and employees, and it sells t-shirts, coffee mugs and merchandise with rainbow flags and other symbols of gay rights. Target said it removed from shelves “items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.”įor a decade, Target has celebrated Pride Month in and around June. The company said threats against employees impacted their sense of safety and well-being, but Target did not specify which products it was removing, the nature of the threats, or where they occurred.

In these xenophobic times, the work celebrates globalism as it references many cultures and is crafted from materials sourced from every corner of the globe.Target on Wednesday said it was removing some products that celebrate Pride Month after the company and its employes became the focus of a “volatile” anti-LGBTQ campaign. Monies’s connection to nature is especially resonant now, when there’s a growing awareness of fashion’s negative impact on the environment. These they form into organic pieces that have a “found” quality as well as an artfulness. Though both are trained as goldsmiths, they prefer to work with natural and ethically sourced materials, often with ancient histories like fossils, acacia wood, ebony, and mammoth tusks. Their aim is major impact, but bling is not their thing. There, they create statement pieces that are anything but demure. The pair work in a waterfront atelier filled with treasures from around the world. Though new to DSM, this Danish brand hardly falls within the emerging talent category, having been founded in 1973 by husband-and-wife team Nikolai and Gerda Monies (pronounced mawhn-yes) in their hometown of Copenhagen. Casting light into the shade of Black Friday is the arrival of Monies jewelry at Dover Street Market in New York and Los Angeles.

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