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Originally Posted by Corkey
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I've seen a number of people posting about this in various places along with calls to boycott, etc. The person who made the donation is a member of the board of the holding company that owns Golds Gym. The donation was not made by Gold's Gym or the holding company.
The holding company issued a press release the day this was announced stating that they did not make the donation, the donation was made by a private citizen in his own name, not the name of the business and that they, as a company, reaffirm their support of the GLBT community and it's causes. Indirectly, the person making the donation has profited from membership fees of Gold's Gym customers but that is much different from saying your membership fees were donated to this organization.
It's really frustrating to see how this has been blown up. It's, essentially, a media created story.
This is like saying that Campbell Soup supports S/M because I donated money to the IML travel fund.