"Twilight" actress Rachelle Lefevre said she can no longer take her 7-year-old non-binary son to shop at Target after it moved its controversial Pride collection to the back of some stores to quell the ongoing backlash.
In an emotional Instagram post over the weekend, the Canadian actress accused Target of "trying to erase" the LGBTQ community by moving Pride displays away from the front of several southern stores amid threats of boycotts and backlash from conservatives. In her caption, Lefevre said the big box retail chain demonstrated "performative allyship" by fraudulently supporting her son and other members of the LGBTQ community.
"'I just walked into Target and where you see all these lovely swimsuits, that's where the Pride display used to be. I came in here two days ago and my 7-year-old, who’s nonbinary, saw it and said, ‘Look, Mom, it’s pride Look, they’re going to celebrate me,'" an emotional Lefevre said on Instagram.
"I can’t bring them here anymore, at least for the entire month of June, because if they walk in, and all the other people who walk in and go, ‘Where’d it go?’ are going to realize that they are being successful in trying to erase them."
"We can do much better than this. We’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists," she added.
Fox News Digital first reported last week that many locations, mostly in rural areas of the South, have relocated and tamped down Pride sections to avoid the kind of backlash Bud Light received after partnering with a transgender influencer. A Target insider told Fox News Digital that an "emergency" meeting was held to avoid what a Target insider called a "Bud Light situation," and the company said it had made moved Pride displays away from the entrances in response to threats some of its staff had received.... (Read more)
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