A gay woman has called out Walmart for its corny LQBTQ apparel, sparking a social media uproar just weeks ahead of Pride Month.
In a video viewed more than five million times, a TikToker expressed her disbelief in the major retailer’s Pride Month selection – joking the options were so awful it made her want to leave the LGBTQ community.
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She then displayed a few shirts up for grabs, each featuring a slogan or pun about sexual identities.
Receiving the most attention from commenters, the first shirt read ‘¿Homo estas?’ – a play on ‘¿Cómo estás?,’ which means ‘how are you?’ in Spanish.
The word ‘homo’ on the dark-blue top was written in rainbow, while ‘estas’ was printed in white.
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A plain white T-shirt had a checklist with the points ‘cute, gay and ready to slay’ all marked off with rainbow check marks.
Lastly – and certainly not least – Bracefacepineapple showed off a light-blue shirt reading ‘bi babe’ instead of ‘bye babe,’ alluding to bisexuality. The letters were pink, blue and purple, symbolizing the bisexual flag.
Ending off the video, the stunned TikTok user said: ‘We can just go ahead and skip pride month because…’
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Even though Bracefacepineapple only has about 900 followers on the platform, the clip instantly went viral, with more than 5,000 people sharing their mixed reactions in the comment section.
One person wrote: ‘Homo estás is killing meeee,’ with another saying ‘HOMO ESTAS PLEASE OMFG.’
Some shared a pun of their own, claiming: ‘I’m less bien after seeing that shirt.’
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‘They knew they was wrong,’ another agreed, with someone speculating that ‘somebody straight designing these.’
‘It’s giving “mom trying to be supportive immediately after their child comes out,”‘ one girl wrote in a vivid description.
Someone added: ‘I feel like this is stuff people like Jojo Siwa would wear.’
There were, however, some fans of the clothing as some people said they would buy some of the shirts – or already have.
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Aside from those for or against the shirts, some commenters denounced Walmart overall, claiming these items do not change the fact the store rolled back its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies following pressures from conservatives.
‘Didn’t Walmart roll back their DEI thing though?’ someone asked.
‘We still shopping there? They keep playing black folks and queer folks alike, and yall keep GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY. Also, less consume less lab made weird shyt,’ one commented, liked more than 3,300 times, read.
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This Walmart pride-merchandise debate comes as several major companies pulled financial support from this year’s Pride events.
PepsiCo, Nissan, Citi, Comcast and PricewaterhouseCoopers are just some of the companies that opted out of sponsoring New York City’s Pride festivities.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14677593/amp/gay-woman-slams-walmart-cringe-lgbtq-merchandise.html?ito=smartnews