The group cited a report using data from the government transparency nonprofit group OpenSecrets that found the company donated more than $450,000 last year to lawmakers who opposed the Equality Act.
Genna Martin / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images file “When someone has their name attached to the title of a full event that we haven’t had for two years, it makes me, as a queer individual, think this parade is going to be entirely about Amazon and celebrating their contribution.' People walk in the Seattle Pride Parade on June 25, 2017.
'Pride isn't for sale at any time of the year, but especially the month of June when our community comes together to celebrate,' Marx said.
It also cited efforts by the company to call the parade - the city's first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic - 'Seattle Pride Parade Presented by Amazon' in exchange for $100,000, the group's executive director, Krystal Marx, told the NBC affiliate KING-TV in Seattle.
