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With so much controversy surrounding corporate support for the LGBTQIA2+ community over the past month, veteran Starbucks partners Xavier and Tammy are providing much-needed context about their daily realities and the issues they are processing before, during and long after Pride Month ends.

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For years, we’ve offered benefits to partners in same-sex relationships, and our Workplace Gender Transition Guidelines support partners who are transgender or considering transitioning. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation recognized us as a top employer for LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

This is happening as other companies like Target and Budweiser face mounting pressure to distance themselves from vulnerable queer and trans communities due to anti-gay and anti-trans political attacks across the country. As a queer person who has worked at a Starbucks in Oklahoma City for the past five years, I helped organize a union at my store. In late May, we were told by our manager that the Pride flag we had hung proudly in our cafe, along with other colorful decorations, would no longer be allowed.

Through the lens of two long-time retail partners who are also part of the LGBTQIA2+ community, we reflect on how Starbucks has learned and grown over the years to become an inclusive safe haven – with our partners consistently driving the company’s efforts.

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Full health benefits for eligible full- and part-time employees, including coverage for same-sex domestic partners, is offered at Starbucks Canada. Workplace Gender Transition Guidelines are issued at Starbucks Canada to support partners who are transgender or considering transitioning to promote understanding of fair and equitable treatment of transgender and gender-diverse.

In March , the National Organization for Marriage instituted a "Dump Starbucks" boycott because of the company's support of gay marriage. Investor-analyst Tom Stauber attributed his disappointment in Starbucks SBUX stock to this boycott, according to the shareholders' meeting transcript. Starbucks stock and dividends rose 7.