Look at the photo on the left, what do you see? A bakery in Texas posted this picture online of rainbow cookies that someone had asked them to bake for Pride month.
On 3rd June Confections bakery posted, "Today has been hard, really hard. We just lost a significant amount of followers because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted. We received a very hateful message on our business page cancelling a large order (5 dz) of summer themed cookies that we had just finished decorating for tomorrow morning."
"My heart is heavy. Honestly I never thought a post that literally said more love less hate would result in this kind of backlash to a small business that is struggling to stay afloat and spread a little cheer through baked goods. So if you love our cookies we will have an over abundance of them tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow will be better."
What do you think happened next?
Look at the photo on the right- what is happening?
The next day Confections were overwhelmed with queues of people around the block waiting to buy their cookies and show support. In the afternoon the owners posted, "We are astonished at your generosity of heart. The line is wrapped around the street since we opened. We will be closing today one hour early to rebake and regroup for tomorrow as we are close to being sold out. We will be open on Saturday 11-2 with more of everything including the rainbow heart that started it all."
- why do you think a customer ordered rainbow cookies?
- what is Pride month about?
- why do you think the bakery posted a photo of the rainbow cookies?
- why did they get a hateful message?
- some people say we don't need pride month... what does the hateful message show?
- "My heart is heavy" why did the owner post that, how did the cancelled order affect the bakery?
- why didn't the bakery apologise for the rainbow cookies and take the photo down?
- what happened next?
- are all the people in the queue LGBT+?
- what does that photo show about lots of people in Texas and their attitude to equality?
- How do you think the person who posted the hateful message felt when they saw the queue?
- how can we change minds so that we don't have hateful messages in the future?
- what can we learn from the bakery? should they continue to bake the rainbow cookie?
- what can we learn from the person who write the hateful message?
- what can we learn from the people of Texas?
- why is this about No Outsiders?
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