People Are Saying Starbucks’ New Holiday Cup Is Totally Gay – By Vanessa Wong (Buzzfeed.com) / Nov 15 2017
This month, Starbucks announced its new holiday cup, which it promoted in a video featuring a same-sex couple holding hands.
It’s just the next chapter in the unending drama that is Starbucks-holiday-cup, which was criticized by some in past years for not adequately honoring Christmas.
While people who follow both Starbucks holiday cup news and LGBT issues celebrated the video, the ordinary Starbucks customer probably didn’t realize the cup might have a gay agenda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53EgSWqQOwE
Yet some keen observers speculated on Twitter that the two hands on the upper edge of the cup belong to a same-sex couple, holding hands like in the Starbucks’ holiday cup video.
One user said, “I’m going w/the hand holders are gay.”
Krista
@durantigger
Hey social media, are the “Christians” bitching about @Starbucks red cup & inclusive message yet? PS, I’m going w/t… https://t.co/QC6UbPpy40
03:07 PM – 01 Nov 2017 Reply Retweet Favoritehttps://twitter.com/durantigger
“I can attest to the lesbianism of The Hands,” my gay BuzzFeed colleague said upon careful inspection.
Another person wrote, “Great new #christmas campaign from @Starbucks featuring #lesbian couple on the Holiday Cup.”
Rufus Dowling
@rufusdowling
Great new #christmas campaign from @Starbucks featuring #lesbian couple on the Holiday Cup.
12:22 PM – 13 Nov 2017 Reply Retweet Favoritehttps://twitter.com/rufusdowling
One said, “I can’t tell the genders of the people holding hands, on this cup, could be an abomination, better not risk it,” followed enigmatically by a laughing emoji.
Linda Edgar
@syboneze
@Starbucks I can’t tell the genders of the people holding hands, on this cup, could be an abomination, better not risk it.
08:45 PM – 12 Nov 2017 Reply Retweet Favoritehttps://twitter.com/Starbucks/status/927539323695595520
Jimmy H Peralez
@h_peralez
The new Starbucks cup has lesbian couple on it. Rom 1:26 “because of this,God gave them over to shameful lust”…
11:54 AM – 02 Nov 2017 Reply Retweet Favoritehttps://twitter.com/h_peralez
We reached out to Starbucks, which did not confirm or deny if the hands belong to a same-sex couple. But if the Babadook and Pennywise are gay icons of the Halloween season, maybe Starbucks Ladies can take over the role this Christmas.
The company said in an emailed statement: “Each year during the holidays we aim to bring our customers an experience that inspires the spirit of the season, and we will continue to embrace and welcome customers from all backgrounds and religions in our stores around the world.”
Well, they didn’t deny it. So, The Hands are definitely gay, right?
PB/TK – Geez Starbucks just can’t get a break on the “Holiday cups.” 2016 people bitched a ‘war on Christmas; because it was a green “unity” cup w/people etched on it. Then in 2015 people freaked over a plain red cup and so on.
