I was so happy to hear that Beyonce was headlining Coachella and then I read this...
The festival’s billionaire owner, Philip Anschutz has donated to Anti-LGBTQ organizations and denies climate change.
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Anschutz’s track record with the LGBTQ community is especially dubious, as he has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-gay organizations and supported anti-gay legislation such as Colorado’s Amendment 2, which sought to enable private property owners and employers to discriminate against homosexuals and lesbians. According to the Washington Post, Anschutz has contributed funds to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the National Christian Foundation, and the Family Research Council, all of which staunchly oppose LGBTQ rights.I wonder if these performers know about this?
But Anschutz’s crusade against gay rights is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of his anti-liberal agenda. As Greenpeace notes, he also supports the quack science of climate-change denial through his foundation and regularly meets to discuss strategy with the Koch brothers, two of the country’s leading anti-environmentalist activists. Other causes Anschutz has leant his support to include weakening of labor unions and challenging evolutionary science.
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Mr. Anschutz is very prominent in Denver. Anschutz contributed heavily in Aurora, Colorado where Anschutz Medical Campus is located. On this site are University of Colorado Health, Children's Medical Center, and Colorado school of medicine, and the VA Hosptial. I believe that Children's and the VA are separate. I could be wrong. While working there we had to call is Anschutz Medical Campus. We could not just refer to the hospital. It was University of Colorado Health AT Anschutz Medical Campus.
I have included brief from Wikipedia below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz
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