American Airlines boasts of homosexual marketing

                                                                                                                                                                            Vol. XII, No. 5, May 1999

Despite a past pledge to not back anti-family movements, American Airlines markets to the homosexual community and actively supports pro-homosexual causes. A spokesman for American's gay and lesbian marketing division boasted of the airline's courtship of its homosexual constituency, in the April/May edition of a homosexual TV news program, "In the Life." Rick Cirillo said the airline is the first "Fortune 100" company to establish a department dedicated to the homosexual market. "Gay people need to look at who is really out there supporting the community and giving to the community," Cirillo told In the Life. "We're that airline." American's financial contributions to the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is one reason the SBC Executive Committee dropped American as recommended carrier for SBC's annual meeting. [BP]