Hrc Buyers Guide 09

2009 A GUIDE TO COMPANIES, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT SUPPORT LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER EQUALITY

DEAR TAKE ACTION FRIENDS, FOR EQUALITY 1 2 3 A FEW WAYS YOU CAN HELP FIGHT FOR EQUALITY EVERY DAY:

Share this information with your friends, family and co-workers. Help them to become supporters of equality by using the information in this guide.

Advocate for equality in the workplace. If your company isn’t on this list or you think it can do better, go to www.hrc.org/cei to find out how to get it engaged. Get active about equality. Sign up for newsletters and Action Alerts at www.hrc.org/actioncenter.

Dear Friends, This year, more than ever, we must be concerned with making sure that every dollar we spend counts. We will have to consider what purchases are most important, what fits into our budgets and when it’s OK to treat ourselves to something extra. For those of us who care deeply about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, we must also weigh what companies deserve our business. Every day, we make choices that send a powerful message about our values, our principles and our ideals. We do it every time we buy a cup of coffee, fill our gas tanks, book a flight or clothe our families. Where we spend our dollars has remarkable potential to positively affect the LGBT community because it reinforces what many companies know: fairness is good business. There are hundreds of businesses that have earned the right to call you a customer. A record 260 companies received a perfect 100 percent score on the 2009 Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index — a one-third increase over last year. Today, millions of workers are employed by businesses that prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, that have adopted strong policies on diversity and inclusion, and that offer healthcare and partnership benefits that address the unique needs of LGBT individuals and families. The Buying for Equality guide allows you to continue this trend by rewarding businesses that have shown themselves to be allies of the LGBT community. It provides a way to communicate to corporate America that LGBT-inclusive workplace policies have a direct impact on a company’s bottom line. As the Human Rights Campaign Foundation works with companies to improve their workplaces, you can do your part by using this guide to buy products from companies that support the LGBT community. Sincerely, Joe Solmonese President, Human Rights Campaign Foundation

QUESTIONS ANSWERS 4

Where do the scores in this guide come from?

The information in this guide comes from the 2009 Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual report card on corporate America’s treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

How are the scores calculated?

Businesses are rated on a scale from 0 to 100, based on whether or not they have policies that support LGBT people. These include anti-discrimination protections, domestic partner benefits, diversity training, transgender-inclusive benefits and external practices.

Why don’t I see a business listed?

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation researches policies at more than 1,800 companies (including the Fortune 1000 and American Lawyer 200). However, we don’t rate a business until we have collected and verified all the information we need. In all, we rated 584 companies in 2009.

How can I get a business listed?

Any business with 500 or more U.S. employees can be rated. If you don’t see a company listed, contact the Human Rights Campaign with any information you have about its policies on LGBT issues. Or, write the business and tell it you make purchasing decisions based on how it scored in this guide.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO CONTACT US, PLEASE VISIT WWW.HRC.ORG/BUYERSGUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS BUYERS GUIDE

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EACH BUSINESS/BRAND IS ASSIGNED ONE OF THREE COLORS BASED ON ITS SCORE IN OUR REPORT: GREEN, YELLOW OR RED.

FILLING UP THE TANK SCORE: 80+

BP Amoco Arco Chevron Caltex Texaco Shell Oil

GREEN (80-100): Businesses/brands with one of our higher scores. Consumers should make every effort to support these companies.

100

Human Rights Campaign National Corporate Partners. The support of these businesses is directly tied to the Human Rights Campaign’s success in ensuring equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. All HRC National Corporate Partners are required to maintain a CEI score of 85 or above.

100 100

SCORE: 46-79

ConocoPhillips 76 Conoco Phillips 66



63

YELLOW (46-79): Businesses/brands that have taken steps toward a fair-minded workplace, but where there is still progress to be made.

0

RED (0-45): Businesses/brands that have more work to do in furthering equality. If possible, consumers should make the choice to support a more fair-minded company.

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Exxon Mobil Esso Exxon Mobil Hess Marathon Oil Speedway SuperAmerica Sunoco Valero Energy Diamond Shamrock Stop N Go Ultramar

? ? ? ?

RED (?): Businesses/brands that have not responded to the survey despite repeated attempts and whose policies are unclear.

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WHERE TO SHOP

08

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS

26

HOME AND GARDEN

10

MEDICINE CABINET

28

BANKING AND FINANCE

12

KIDS PET CARE

31 31

APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES

14

PLANNING A TRIP



32



16

STAYING ENTERTAINED

34

FILLING UP THE TANK

17

TECHNOLOGY



36

FOOD AND BEVERAGES

18

NEWSSTAND

38

FUN AND GAMES

23

YOU’VE GOT MAIL

39

HITTING THE ROAD

24

INSURANCE AND HEALTHCARE 40

EATING OUT

8

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WHERE TO SHOP SCORE: 80+

Barnes & Noble B. Dalton Bookseller Best Buy Future Shop Geek Squad Magnolia Home Theater Borders Doubleday Waldenbooks/Brentanos eBay Shopping.com GameStop EB Games Sears Kmart Lands’ End Supervalu Acme Markets Albertsons Bristol Farms Cub Foods Farm Fresh Hornbacher’s Jewel-Osco Osco Pharmacy Save-A-Lot Sav-on Shaws

100 100

100 100 100 100 100

Shop ’n Save Shoppers Food Sunflower Market Target TJX HomeGoods Walgreens Food Lion Bloom Bottom Dollar Food Harveys Costco Staples Corporate Express CVS Longs Drug Store Hallmark Cards Whole Foods Home Depot Rite Aid Hannaford Brothers Harry & David Amazon Limited Brands Bath & Body Works White Barn Candle Company OfficeMax

100 100 100 95

93 93 90 90 90 85 85 83 83 80 80 80

9

SCORE: 80+

64%

of gay and lesbian adults say that when selecting a product or service, all other considerations being equal, they will select the brand that has a reputation for being more gay friendly. Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive

SCORE: 46-79

Ahold USA Giant Peapod Stop & Shop Kroger Dillon Food Stores Fred Meyer Kwik Shop Quality Food Centers

78

75

Quik Stop Ralphs Turkey Hill Minit Markets Toys “R” Us Babies “R” US Office Depot Circuit City Pathmark

65 60 55 53

SCORE: 0-45, ?

H. E. B. Grocery Central Marketplace Gas ‘N Go RadioShack Wal-Mart Marketside Sam’s Club Meijer Bed Bath & Beyond Big Lots

40 40 40 15 ? ?

BJ’s Dillard’s Dollar General Kohl’s Liberty Media QVC Lowe’s Publix Super Markets Winn-Dixie Stores

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

SCORE: 80+

Dupont  Corian Kevlar Nomex Teflon Tyvek Zodiak Herman Miller Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Newell Rubbermaid Amerock Bernzomatic Gardinia Irwin Kirsch Lenox Levolor Owens Corning Replacements, Ltd. Sears Craftsman Kenmore Whirlpool Amana Gladiator Jenn-Air Kenmore

100

100 100 100





100 100 100



100



KitchenAid Magic Chef Maytag Roper Supermatic Home Depot Behr Hampton Bay Traffic Master Vigoro Monsanto Roundup GE Hotpoint Monogram Profile Realogy Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Century 21 Corcoran Group Sotheby’s

85

85 80

80

11

SCORE: 46-79



KB Home Mohawk Industries Dal-Tile Mohawk Unilin

75 65

Black & Decker Baldwin DeWalt Kwikset Price Pfister Weiser Lake

55

Leggett & Platt Lennar NuHome U.S. Home Village Builders Masco Sherwin-Williams Toll Brothers

? ?

SCORE: 0-45, ?



Emerson Electric ClosetMaid In-Sink-Erator RIDGID White-Rodgers John Deere Berkshire Hathaway Benjamin Moore The Pampered Chef Beazer Homes Fortune Brands Aristokraft Master Lock MasterBrand Moen Omega Waterloo

45

33 ? ? ?



? ? ?

SCORE: 80+

American Express Ameriprise IDS RiverSource Bank of America Countrywide Financial U.S. Trust Bank of New York Mellon Dreyfus Pershing Capital One Charles Schwab Citi Banamex Citibank Citifinancial Citimortgage Diner’s Club Primerica Smith Barney Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank Fannie Mae Goldman Sachs HSBC Beneficial

100 100 100 100 100 100 100

100 100 100 100 100

J.P. Morgan Chase Chase KeyCorp KeyBank MasterCard Cirrus Maestro Mondex Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley Van Kampen Northern Trust Raymond James Financial State Street SunTrust U.S. Bancorp UBS Visa Wachovia WaMu Providian Financial Wells Fargo Wells Fargo Financial Wells Fargo Mortgage CIBC Principal Financial

100 100 100

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 95 95

13

The buying power of the U.S lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is projected to be in 2009.

$759 billion

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/MarketResearch.com

E*TRADE Financial Barclays Capital Harris Bankcorp BMO Capital Markets John Hancock Financial Services Freddie Mac AmTrust Bank

93 90 90

Comerica General Electric GE Money National City PNC

80 80

75 75 68 65 60 58

Morningstar Franklin Resources Franklin Templeton BB&T

58 50

35

Western Union

?

88 85 83

80 80

SCORE: 46-79

Fifth Third Bancorp Huntington Bancshares Chamberlin Edmonds H&R Block Sallie Mae Discover Financial Services Pulse

48

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Dun & Bradstreet Hoovers Sovereign Bancorp

?

APPAREL ACCESSORIES SCORE: 80+

Abercrombie & Fitch Hollister Ruehl Gap Banana Republic Old Navy Piperlime J.C. Penney Arizona Jean Co. St. John’s Bay Worthington Levi Strauss Dockers Liz Claiborne Axcess Bora Bora Ellen Tracy Enyce Juicy Couture Kate Spade Kenzie Laundry by Shelli Segal Lucky Brand Jeans Mac & Jac Mambo Mexx Monet prAna Realities Sigrid Olsen

100 100

100

100 100

Macy’s Alfani Bloomingdale’s Charter Club I.N.C. Nike Cole Haan Converse Hurley Umbro Nordstrom Façonnable REI Sears Lands’ End Target Cherokee Honors In Due Time Liz Lange Merona Mossimo Utility Xhilaration TJX A.J.Wright Bob’s Stores Marshalls T.J.Maxx

100

100

100

100 100 100

100

15

48%

SCORE: 80+

of gay and lesbian adults say they like to keep up with the latest styles and trends, compared with only of heterosexual adults.

38%

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive

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Kenneth Cole Gentle Souls Le Tigre Limited Brands Bath and Body Works

95 80



C.O. Bigelow Henri Bendel Pink Victoria’s Secret

SCORE: 46-79

L.L. Bean Tiffany & Co.

73 68

The Men’s Wearhouse K&G Men’s Company MW Tux

50

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Jones Apparel Anne Klein Bandolino Easy Spirit Joan & David Jones New York Kasper Nine West Lillian Vernon Berkshire Hathaway Fruit of the Loom JERZEES Russell Athletics Spalding Donna Karan DKNY

45

40 ?

?

Foot Locker Champs Sports Eastbay Footaction Ross Stores VF Eagle Creek Eastpak JanSport John Varvatos Lee Nautica Seven for all Mankind The North Face Vans Wrangler Jeans

?

? ?

EATING OUT SCORE: 80+

Brinker Chili’s Maggiano’s Little Italy On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina Romano’s Macaroni Grill Carlson Pick Up Stix T.G.I. Friday’s

100

100

Starbucks Seattle’s Best Coffee McDonald’s Darden Restaurants Bahama Breeze Longhorn Steakhouse Olive Garden Red Lobster Seasons 52 The Capital Grille

SCORE: 46-79

The Palm Yum! Brands A&W KFC Long John Silver’s

78 65

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Cracker Barrel Berkshire Hathaway Dairy Queen

15 ?

Pizza Hut Taco Bell

100 85 80

FILLING UP THE TANK SCORE: 80+



BP Amoco Arco Chevron Caltex Texaco Shell Oil

100 100 100

SCORE: 46-79

ConocoPhillips 76 Conoco Phillips 66

60

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Exxon Mobil Corp. Esso Exxon Mobil Hess Marathon Oil Speedway SuperAmerica

0

? ?

Sunoco Valero Energy Diamond Shamrock Stop N Go Ultramar

? ?

FOOD BEVERAGES 30

IT IS LEGAL IN STATES TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEING GAY, LESBIAN OR BISEXUAL. IT IS LEGAL IN STATES TO FIRE AN EMPLOYEE FOR BEING TRANSGENDER.

38

S

19

SCORE: 80+

Anheuser-Busch Bud Light Budweiser Busch Kirin Michelob Natural Ice Rolling Rock Campbell Soup Pace Pepperidge Farm Prego Swanson V8 Clorox Hidden Valley KC Masterpiece Kitchen Bouquet Coca-Cola Company Barq’s Canada Dry Coke Zero Dannon Dasani Diet Coke Fanta Fresca Fruitopia Fuze Hi-C Honest Tea Mello Yello Minute Maid Nestea Odwalla Pibb Xtra POWERade Simply Orange smartwater Sprite Tab Vault vitaminwater Coca-Cola Enterprises

100

100

100

100

100

Coors Blue Moon Keystone Killian’s Irish Red Molson Diageo Bailey’s Beaulieu Vineyard Captain Morgan Cîroc Crown Royal Dom Perignon Guinness Harp Hennessey Johnnie Walker Jose Cuervo Red Stripe Smirnoff Sterling Vineyards Tanqueray Johnson & Johnson Lactaid Splenda Pepsi Bottling Group PepsiCo 7-Up Aquafina Aunt Jemima Cap’n Crunch Cheetos Cracker Jack Diet Pepsi Dole Juices Doritos Frito-Lay Gatorade Life Lipton Brisk Mountain Dew Mug Root Beer Near East Pasta Roni Propel Quaker

100

100

100

100 100

20

Rice-A-Roni Rold Gold Ruffles Sierra Mist Slice SOBE Sun Chips Tostitos Tropicana Starbucks 100 Ethos Water Frappuccino Seattle’s Best Coffee Tazo Teas Torrefazione Italia Coffee Target 100 Archer Farms Choxie Market Pantry Unilever 100 Ben & Jerry’s Bertolli Breyers Ice Cream Country Crock Good Humor Hellmann’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! Klondike Knorr Lawry’s Lipton Popsicle Promise Skippy Peanut Butter Slim-Fast Wishbone General Mills 95 Betty Crocker Bisquick Bugles Cascadian Farm Cheerios Chex Colombo Fruit by the Foot Fruit Gushers Fruit Roll-Ups

Gold Medal Green Giant Haagen-Dazs Hamburger Helper Kix Lucky Charms Nature Valley Old El Paso Pillsbury Pop Secret Progresso Total Totino’s Trix Wheaties Yoplait Kraft Foods A.1. Balance Bar Boca Burger Breakstone’s Capri Sun Cheez Whiz Chips Ahoy! Cool Whip Country Time Cracker Barrel Crystal Light DiGiorno Honeymaid Jell-O Kool-Aid Louis Rich Lunchables Maxwell House Miracle Whip Nabisco Newtons Nilla Nutter Butter Oreo Oscar Mayer Philadelphia Cream Cheese Planters Post Cereals Ritz Snackwell’s

95



21

Stove Top Tang Toblerone Tombstone Triscuit Velveeta Wheat Thins ConAgra Foods Banquet Chef Boyardee Egg Beaters Fiddle Faddle Healthy Choice Jiffy Pop Marie Callender’s Orville Redenbacher’s Pam

90

Peter Pan Poppycock Slim Jim Van Camp’s Wesson Miller Foster’s IceHouse Milwaukee’s Best Peroni Pilsner Urquell Sparks Procter & Gamble Pringles Abbott Laboratories EAS-Myoplex Ensure

90

85 80

SCORE: 46-79

Safeway Artisan Eating Right Lucerne O Organics OvenJoy Primo Taglio Ranchers Reserve The Butchers Cut Sara Lee Ball Park Best’s Kosher Bryan Earthgrains Healthy Choice Hillshire Farm Jimmy Dean Sunbeam Sun-Maid Dean Foods Country Fresh Horizon Organic International Delight Meadow Gold Silk Skinny Cow

75

75

73

Hershey 70 Almond Joy Breath Savers Bubble Yum Cadbury Heath Icebreakers Jolly Rancher Kit Kat Mauna Lola Mounds Payday Reese’s Rolo Skor Symphony Twizzlers York Zagnut Heinz 68 Bagel Bites Classico Ore-Ida Weight Watchers Smart Ones Domino’s Pizza 60

22

Kellogg’s All-Bran Apple Jacks Austin Carr’s Cheez-It Club Corn Pops Crispix Eggo Famous Amos Froot Loops Frosted Flakes Keebler Mini Wheats Morningstar Farms Murray Sugar Free Nutri-Grain Pop-Tarts Rice Krispies Special K Town House Wheatables

60

U.S. Foodservice Glenview Farms Next Day Gourmet Patuxent Farms Roseli Stock Yards Thirster Hain Celestial Group Arrowhead Mills Casbah Celestial Seasonings Earth’s Best Garden of Eatin’ Harry’s Health Valley Imagine Nile Spice Rice Dream Soy Dream Terra Chips West Soy Yves Land O’Lakes Alpine Lace

58

55

53

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Brown-Forman Bonterra Finlandia Herradura Jack Daniel’s Korbel Sonoma-Cutrer Southern Comfort Chiquita Fresh Express Constellation Arbor Mist Corona Corona Light Negra Modelo Svedka Vendange Woodbridge

20

? ?

Murdock Holding Dole Pilgrim’s Pride Country Pride Easy-Entrée Wing-Dings Smithfield Foods Butterball Cooks John Morrell Tyson Foods Bruss Golden Trophy Nature’s Farm Weaver Wright

?

?

?

?













23

FUN GAMES SCORE: 80+

Electronic Arts EA Casual Entertainment EA Games EA Sports The Sims Harrah’s Entertainment World Series of Poker Microsoft Xbox Mattel American Girl Barbie Cabbage Patch Kids

100

100 100 93

Fisher-Price Hot Wheels Magna Doodle Matchbox Pictionary Polly Pocket Power Wheels Tyco Electric Racing Hallmark Cards Crayola Silly Putty

SCORE: 46-79

Hasbro Candy Land Chutes and Ladders Clue Connect Four Easy-Bake Oven Furby Giga Pets GI Joe Jenga Lite-Brite Monopoly

50



Mousetrap Mr. Potato Head My Little Pony Nerf Operation Play-Doh Risk Scattergories Scrabble Sorry!

90

HITTING THE ROAD

25

SCORE: 80+

AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah CarMax Chrysler Dodge Jeep Clorox Armor All STP Tuff Stuff Ford Lincoln Mazda Mercury Volvo GM Buick Cadillac Chevrolet GMC Hummer OnStar Pontiac Saab Saturn

100 100 100 100

100

100

SCORE: 46-79

Nissan North America Infiniti

50

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Cooper Tire & Rubber AutoZone Duralast Valucraft Goodyear Tire Dunlop Kelly Harley-Davidson Buell

33 25 ? ?

Shell Oil Black Magic Blue Coral Clear Magic Fix-A-Flat Jiffy Lube Quaker State Pennzoil Rain-X Subaru of America Toyota Lexus Scion Volkswagen Audi Bentley Bugatti Lamborgini Ryder Bridgestone Firestone

100

100 100

100

93 80

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS SCORE: 80+

3M Command Filtrete Nexcare O-Cel-O Post-it Scotch Scotch-Brite Scotchguard Clorox Brita Formula 409 Glad Handi-Wipes Kingsford Lestoil Liquid-Plumr Pine-Sol S.O.S. Stain Out Tilex Tuff Stuff Tuffy Wash’n Dri Kimberly-Clark Cottonelle Kleenex Scott Viva

100

100

100

Newell Rubbermaid Accent Calphalon Expo Goody Liquid Paper Paper Mate Rolodex Roughneck Sanford Sharpie Shur-Line TakeAlongs Uni-Ball Vis-A-Vis Waterman S.C. Johnson & Son Drano Fantastik Glade Grab-it OFF! Oust Pledge Raid Saran Scrubbing Bubbles Shout Vanish

100

100

Windex Ziploc Unilever All Snuggle Wisk Procter & Gamble Bounce Bounty Cascade Charmin Cheer Dawn Downy Duracell

100

85

SCORE: 46-79

Colgate-Palmolive Ajax Murphy Oil Soap Palmolive Suavitel

73



Febreze Gain Joy Mr. Clean Puffs Swiffer Tide

MEDICINE CABINET

29

SCORE: 80+

Bausch & Lomb Boston Ocuvite Optima PreserVision PureVision ReNu Sensitive Eyes Sight Saver SofLens Boehringer Ingelheim Dulcolax Zantac Estée Lauder Aveda Bobbi Brown Clinique Estée Lauder M.A.C. Origins Prescriptives GlaxoSmithKline Abreva Aquafresh Citrucel NicoDerm CQ Nicorette Os-cal Polident Sensodyne Tums Johnson & Johnson Acuvue Aveeno Band-Aid Benadryl BenGay Clean & Clear e.p.t. Imodium Lactaid Listerine Monistat Motrin Mylanta

100

100 100

100

100

Neutrogena Pepcid AC Reach Rolaids Stayfree Sudafed Tylenol Visine Kimberly-Clark Depends Kleenex Kotex Scott Novartis 4-Way Benefiber Boost Bufferin Comtrex Doan’s Ex-Lax Excedrin Gas-X Habitrol Maalox Night & Day/O2OPTIX No-Doz Tavist Theraflu Triaminic Vagistat Pfizer Cortizone Purell S.C. Johnson & Son Edge Skintimate Schering-Plough Afrin Bain de Soleil Claritin Coppertone Dr. Scholl’s Tinactin

100

100

100

100

100

30

Unilever AXE Caress Closeup Degree Dove Lever 2000 Pond’s Q-tips Suave Vaseline Avon Products ANEW Beyond Color Color Trend Perfect Wear Skin-So-Soft Ultra Color Rich Lipstick Procter & Gamble Always Aussie Clairol Cover Girl Crest Fixodent Gillette Head & Shoulders Herbal Essence Ivory Max Factor Metamucil Noxema

100

90

85

SCORE: 46-79

Colgate-Palmolive Irish Spring Mennen Skin Bracer Softsoap Speedstick

73

Olay Old Spice Oral-B Pantene Pepto-Bismol Puffs Scope Secret Tampax Vicks Zest Bayer Aleve Alka-Seltzer Bactin Midol One-A-Day Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Wyeth Advil Alavert Anbesol Caltrate Centrum ChapStick Dimetapp FiberCon Preparation H Primatene Robitussin

80

80





KIDS SCORE: 80+

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Brookfield Academies College Coach Lipton Child Care Bristol-Myers Squibb Enfamil Kimberly-Clark Huggies Pull-Ups Newell Rubbermaid Graco

100

100 100

Procter & Gamble Luvs Pampers Abbott Laboratories Pedialyte PediaSure Similac Bayer Flintstones Vitamins

85

80

80

100

PET CARE SCORE: 80+

Clorox Ever Clean EverFresh Fresh Step Scoop Away

100

Procter & Gamble Eukanuba Iams

75

T Bonz Tidy Cats Safeway Priority Pet Colgate-Palmolive Hill’s Pet Nutrition Hill’s Science Diet

85

SCORE: 46-79

Nestle Purina Alpo Beggin’ Strips Beneful Fancy Feast Friskies Puppy Chow

75 73

PLANNING A TRIP SCORE: 80+

Alaska Airlines American Airlines American Eagle Anheuser-Busch Busch Gardens SeaWorld Sesame Place Carlson Companies Carlson Wagonlit Travel Country Inns & Suites Park Inn Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts Radisson Hotels & Resorts Regent Hotels & Resorts Continental Airlines Harrah’s Entertainment Bally’s Caesars Flamingo Horseshoe London Clubs International Paris Rio Showboat Hyatt Andaz Grand Hyatt Hyatt Place Park Hyatt Regency Hyatt Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group

100 100 100

100

100 100

100

100

Marriott International Courtyard Fairfield Inn JW Marrriott Renaissance Residence Inn SpringHill Suites The Ritz-Carlton TownePlace Suites Orbitz away.com CheapTickets ebookers.com hotelclub.com Sabre Holdings Travelocity Starwood Hotels & Resorts aloft Element Four Points Le Meridien Luxury Collection Sheraton St. Regis W Hotels Westin US Airways Walt Disney Company Disney Cruise Line Disneyland Walt Disney World Resorts

100

100

100 100

100 100





33

50%

NEARLY of all gay and lesbian people say that a destination’s gay friendliness is important to them when making leisure travel choices. Source: Harris Interactive, Travel Industry Association and Witeck-Combs Communications

Wyndham 100 AmeriHost Inn Baymont Inn & Suites Days Inn Howard Johnson Knights Inn Ramada Super 8 Motel Travelodge Wingate Inn Hilton Hotels 90 Conrad Doubletree Embassy Suites Hampton Inn Hilton Garden Inn Homewood Suites The Waldorf-Astoria Collection Southwest Airlines 90 United Airlines 88 Delta Airlines 85 MGM/Mirage 85

Bellagio Circus Circus Excalibur Luxor Mandalay Bay MGM Grand Mirage Monte Carlo New York-New York Treasure Island Northwest Airlines Dollar Thrifty Dollar Rent A Car Thrifty Car Rental Avis Budget Avis Rent A Car Budget Rent A Car Enterprise Rent-A-Car General Electric Universal Parks and Resorts JetBlue Airways

85 83

80

80 80 80

SCORE: 46-79

Royal Caribbean Cruises Celebrity Cruises

55

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Hertz

?

Expedia Hotels.com Hotwire Trip Advisor

50

STAYING ENTERTAINED

35

SCORE: 80+

Clear Channel Communications Katz Media Cox Enterprises Cox Cable/Newspapers/Radio Travel Channel Starbucks Starbucks Hear Music The Walt Disney Co. A&E ABC Disney Channel ESPN History Channel Lifetime Miramax Films Pixar SOAPnet Touchstone Pictures Time Warner AOL Cartoon Network CNN HBO New Line Cinema Sports Illustrated TNT Turner Broadcasting Warner Bros Entertainment

100 100 100 100

100

Viacom BET CMT Comedy Central LOGO MTV Nickelodeon Noggin Paramount Spike TV Land Vh1 Hallmark Cards Hallmark Channel Comcast E! G-4 Videogame TV Style Network General Electric Bravo NBC NBC Universal Sci Fi Telemundo Universal Pictures USA Sirius XM Radio Sirius XM

100

90

80

80

80

SCORE: 46-79

AMC Entertainment AMC Theaters

63

Loews Cineplex Movietickets.com

?

News Corp. Fox FX Myspace.com Virgin Virgin Broadband/Media

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Cablevision Optimum DIRECTV Liberty Media Game Show Network Starz

? ?

?

?

36

TECHNOLOGY SCORE: 80+

Apple iPhone/iPod/iTunes Mac OS X AT&T Cisco Systems Linksys WebEx Corning Cox Enterprises Dell eBay Paypal Skype StubHub Google Blogger Picasa YouTube HP Compaq Scitex Snapfish IBM Intel Intuit QuickBooks Quicken TurboTax Kodak

100

100 100 100 100 100 100

100

100

100 100 100

100

Lexmark Microsoft Hotmail Internet Explorer MSN Office Windows Vista Zune Motorola Sprint Nextel Boost Sun Microsystems Java OpenOffice Solaris Symantec Norton Texas Instruments Xerox Yahoo! Del.icio.us Flickr HotJobs Adobe Systems Acrobat Flash Photoshop

100 100

100 100

100

100

100 100 100

95

45%

of gay and lesbian adults say they tend to upgrade to the latest model or version of a product, compared with of heterosexual adults.

33%

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive

West FindLaw KeyCite Westlaw EarthLink PeoplePC Imation Memorex



95

88 88

ALLTEL Amazon IMDb AMD ATI Comcast Qwest

80 80

McAfee Acer Gateway Nokia

53 50

T-Mobile Virgin Virgin Mobile

? ?

80 80 80

SCORE: 46-79









Verizon IKON Office Solutions IKON APC Back-UPS SurgeArrest TravelPower

70 65 63

50

SCORE: 0-45, ?

IAC/InterActiveCorp Ask.com Dictionary.com Evite Match.com Vimeo

?

NEWSSTAND 38

SCORE: 80+

Money People Real Simple Southern Living Sports Illustrated Time United Business Media LLC CRN InformationWeek McGraw-Hill Architectural Record BusinessWeek Standard & Poor’s

100

65

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Scholastic

55 50

?

Tribune Chicago Tribune Los Angeles Times Newsday

?

American Express 100 Food & Wine Travel & Leisure The New York Times 100 About.com The Boston Globe The International Herald Tribune Time Warner 100 Cooking Light Entertainment Weekly Essence Fortune In Style

80

SCORE: 46-79

Gannett USA Today SCORE: 0-45, ?

News Corp. Barron’s Dow Jones MarketWatch New York Post SmartMoney The Wall Street Journal







YOU’VE GOT MAIL SCORE: 80+

UPS

100

SCORE: 46-79

FedEx FedEx Office

55

39

INSURANCE HEALTHCARE

33%

of self-identified gays and lesbians say that an insurance company’s offering of domestic partner benefits to its employees would be one of the top three reasons why they would change providers and take their business to another insurance carrier. Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive

41

SCORE: 80+

Aetna Allianz Life Allstate Aon Affinity Combined Chubb CNA Insurance Esurance Hartford Financial Services Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ING ReliaStar Kaiser Permanente MassMutual Life Insurance Babson Capital Baring Asset Cornerstone OppenheimerFunds MetLife New England Life Insurance Texas Life Insurance Nationwide Allied Insurance Scottsdale Insurance Titan Insurance Victoria Insurance

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

100 100

New York Life Progressive Prudential Financial Sun Life Financial American Family Insurance Group CIGNA Lincoln National Principal Financial Group WellPoint Inc. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Lumenos Unicare Health Net John Hancock Manulife Sierra Unum Colonial Provident AIG Quest Diagnostics Selective Insurance Group Mutual of Omaha Insurance State Farm

100 100 100 100 95

Zurich Owens & Minor MediChoice Travelers

65 55

Conseco Bankers Life Colonial Penn Genworth Guardian Life Berkshire Life Park Avenue Life Northwestern Mutual Frank Russell USAA

?

95 95 95 95

93 88

88 88 85 85 85 80 80

SCORE: 46-79

TIAA-CREF 78 CUNA Mutual Insurance Group 65 Pacific Mutual 65 Vision Service Plan 65

50

SCORE: 0-45, ?

Humana AEGON Transamerica AFLAC Assurant Berkshire Hathaway GEICO National Indemnity

45 40 ? ? ?

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law and increasing public support among all Americans through innovative advocacy, education and outreach programs. HRC works to secure equal rights for LGBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, educating Americans, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other LGBT organizations. PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2008

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