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Macy’s celebrates National Pride Month with the LGBTQ Community

Published
Jun 2, 2015

This month, Macy’s honors LGBTQ Pride Month with a campaign, Pride + Joy, that will feature in-store events, parades, commemorative ads and sponsorships. Pride + Joy is Macy’s annual LGBTQ campaign for National Pride Month in June.


The Macy's store in New York City's Herald Square


This year, Macy’s is partnering with The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning teens and young adults between the age of 13 and 24. The creators of the Academy Award-winning short film, TREVOR, founded the organization in 1998.
 
"The Trevor Project speaks to and supports more than 100,000 LGBTQ youth on an annual basis. However, for each call, text or chat we receive, we know there are youth out there that may not know about or don't have the resources to connect to the services we provide. The Trevor Project is honored and thankful to work with national corporate sponsors like Macy's to ensure that our mission is heard and supported by as many people as possible," states Abbe Land, executive director and CEO, The Trevor Project.

"Inclusion is part of Macy's core values," said William Hawthorne, senior vice president, Diversity Strategies and Legal Affairs, Macy's, Inc. "We are happy to celebrate national Pride Month with our employees, customers and the LGBTQ community through festive celebrations, as well as by providing support to organizations like The Human Rights Campaign and The Trevor Project which are making a positive difference in the community."
 
Macy’s employees and their friends and family will march in a 23-city Pride parade that kicked off earlier this year in Phoenix and Miami. Through June, July, August and October, pride parades will take place across the country, from Florida to New York, and Washington to California.
 
In addition to the parades, Macy’s will host in-store events featuring the latest in fashion, local charities and celebrity appearances. 

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