Apparently we didn’t drink enough coffee this morning because this hasn’t been on Slog…
Starbucks, Google, Alcoa and tons of small businesses have come out for the marriage-equality legislation in Olympia, according to a delightful announcement this morning from Washington United for Marriage. “This important legislation is aligned with Starbucks business practices and upholds our belief in the equal treatment of partners,” Starbucks executive Kalen Holmes wrote in an email to company staff. (The Seattle Times posted the full letter here). “We look forward to seeing this legislation enacted into law.” Starbucks also backed the domestic-partnership law in 2009.
Today’s announcement comes after last week’s news that Microsoft, Vulcan, and other local industry giants support the state’s marriage equality bills.
A full list of the gay-marriage-backing businesses—where you should spend all your money until the election—is after the jump.
Washington United for Marriage Business Coalition16 Copenhagen
A New Chapter
Adrift Hotel
Alcoa, Inc.
American Family Insurance
Area 58 Fine Art
Atticus Coffee & Gifts
Attorney at Law, P.S.
Barbara Grant Consulting Group
Big Mario’s Pizza
Bimbos Cantina
Bizible
Blue Moon Burgers
Boo Radley’s
BrandQuery LLC
BrandQuery, LLV
Business Diversity Counseling Services
Capitol Florist
Central Physical Therapy & Fitness, Inc.
CG Tech Services, Inc.
Cha Cha Lounge
Choke Shirt Company and Prints
Chris Porter Medical
Clean Air Lawn Care
Conner Remodeling &Design, INC.
Connors and Company
Concur
Cordova Law Firm
Cupcake Royale
Dani Weiss Photography
DBL Property Maintenance
DML Insurance Services, Inc.
Elliot Bay Book Co.
Freeman LLC
Fun Fitness
Fuzed Travel
Group Health Plan
Go Green Directory
Havana
Hillside Quickie Restaurants
Inn at Discovery Coast
Integrated Financial Group
James Braden
Jason Rumohr
JSW Ventures
Juju
Kelly Printing & Graphics
Kill Rock Stars
Kings Hardware
Lagoma Lodge
Law Office of Allen Draher, PLLC
LGBTQ Counseling Servicecs
Liberty Cafe
Local 360
Local Grown Cafe
Local Roots Farm
Microsoft
Moe Bar
Mx2 Computer Consulting
Nike
Northmoon Artistic Creations
Onto Entertainment
Out There Monthly: The Inland NW Guide to Outdoor Recreation
Pacific Forest Resources
Pike Street Fish Fry
Poquitos
Portland Area Business Association
Precision Door Service
Rain City Entertainment
Real Networks
Ric-O-Shay
Screenplay, Inc.
Seattle Cigar Expo
Seattle Gay News
Seattle Interactive Conference
Seattle Popcorn Company Inc. DBA Uncle Woddy’s Caramel Corn
Seattle Restaurant Alliance
Seattle Tattoo Expo
Serendipity Catering
Skylark Cafe & Club
Spitfire Bar & Grill
Spokane Wireless Inc.
Starbucks
Stoel Rives
Tango Restaurant
The 5 Point Café
The Clark Company
The Crocodile
The Red Door
The Saint
The Wedding Gentleman
Thinking Cap Communications & Design
ThirdPlanet Productions
Thom’s Hand-Brewed Coffee
True North, PLLC
Tula’s Restaurant and Jazz Club
Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria
Unicorn Bar
Verite Coffee
Vista Diagnostics International
Vulcan
Wed4Less Northwest
Whidbey Wayfarer Farm
Wild Sage American Bistro
Zenith Diversity
Zim’s Mobile Computer Services LLC
Seattle Gay News? I call shenanigans.
Anyone else think it’s weird that only one of Linda Derschang’s bars (King’s Hardware) supports this?
“Attorney at Law, P.S.” – is that the home of Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog?
i don’t see any banks on this list.
Has Boeing ever taken a stance on this issue? Do they throw their name behind issues that much?
No Amazon.com is weird but not that weird because Bezos sucks so much.
For Silicon Valley companies with large Seattle offices, we get Google but don’t get Facebook? Huh?
As noted above no Boeing; but also no Alaska Airlines, which surprises me.
Yes, where’s Boeing? Where’s Pagliacci’s?
Go Boo Radley’s – one of the best things in Spokane. Everytime I go home to visit, I try and stop in and buy something.
I’ll second Donolectic- huzzah, Boo Radley’s and Atticus! Good to see some classy representation from Spokane.
I don’t see any grocery stores listed.
Why aren’t local gay bars/restaurants listed? I work at the Wildrose Bar and we 120% support gay marriage..go figure..
Where’s The Stranger?
Also, in before SB assholishly thanks everyone on SLOG for letting him know what civilization destroying
businesses to boycott and then plays the victim by whining a lot about his special rights.
This is really got to raise a lot of cognitive dissonance among Washington State Republicans. How can they push the role models of local successful corporations and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and Harold Schultz when these people (to use Romney’s denotation) are all supporting a critical issue 180 degrees away from their own petition?
Are they going to eschew local big business altogether?
They are either going to have be hypocrites and take their money, and praise them in public but damn them in private, or else break away from the whole business and Free Market meme…Newt Gingrich might be heading in that direction.
Curious.
What keeps things fresh for me and the caramel macchiatos is I dive into ’em only once or twice a year (on my trips out of the sticks). I pity all of you with your daily ball-and-chains.
Here’s lookin’ at you, lid.
So we should be reading the Seattle Gay News instead of The Stranger?
Caffe Vita? HMM?
@16 Why not both?
On another note, I hate it when Starbucks does something that demands my respect. Damn them.