AEG owner Phil Anschutz is still supporting organizations that have a history of discriminating against queer & transgender people
, listed under the "Our Beliefs" section of their website, the organization lays out the belief "that God has established marriage as a lifelong, exclusive relationship between one man and one woman," that "all intimate sexual activity outside the marriage relationship, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise, is immoral and therefore sin" and that "all conduct with the intent to adopt a gender other than one’s birth gender is immoral and therefore sin.
“The Foundation reviews grant applications based upon the specific purpose stated in the application," a spokesperson for The Anschutz Foundation tells . "Each grant application is evaluated against the Foundation’s giving guidelines. Given the number of donations given annually, the Foundation does not review the entire historical record relating to an applicant. The Foundation satisfied itself that the specific grants in question were not intended for anti-LGBTQ purposes.
Anschutz is not the only leader in the touring industry who has supported conservative causes in the last five years. Greg Maffei, the CEO of Liberty Media who currently owns a 33 percent stake in concert promoter Live Nation, to President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration, and continued to regularly support the election campaigns of Republican senators as recently as 2019 according to the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s individual contributions database.
deemed hate groups, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council and other anti-LGBTQ organizations like Focus on the Family, the National Christian Foundation, the Heritage Foundation and the Navigators., "My gift to the Elton John Foundation is intended to emphasize that we support freedom of all people to live their lives peacefully, without interference from others....
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