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Not one for hollow gestures, Australian billionaire Twiggy Forrest has this week shown the rest of the corporate sector how to be an ally to our queer brothers and sisters.
Pride Month, often shortened to Pride, is a month, typically June, dedicated to the celebration of, commemoration of, and solidarity with the LGBTQI community.
Over the last decade it has become common place for major corporations to express their support of Pride Month. Some use it as a chance to increase their employee satisfaction by openly promoting LGBT rights. However, most do it to expand the consumer base and maintain a positive public image as a company made up of executives who are capable of humanity.
However, some corporate executives support Pride Month due to personal belief. Twiggy Forrest fits into that category – which means his multibillion dollar mining company are more than fairweather friends to the gays.
While personally intervening on the planning of Fortescue Metal’s Pride festivities, Twiggy is believed to have overruled all suggestions from the millennial marketing gurus in the head office, insisting that a rainbow logo and a guest speaker wasn’t enough.
It’s believed that FMG’s ‘cultural and social commitments’ teams began to grow worried as Twiggy sat back in his desk and began reminiscing on his colourful youth, where he found himself in the peripheral of a small group of gay activists known as the 78ers in Sydney’s inner city.
“They were good fun that lot”
“Boy they could party. I was dating this bird who was a bit of a fruit fly… So I saw a lot of Oxford street”
Twiggy’s decision to host an ‘authentic’ Pride event for Fortescue staff coincides with the new ‘party boy era’ that has followed his official separation from long-term partner Nicole Forrest in July 2023.
“None of this pink cupcake nonsense” says Twiggy.
“Let’s go big. I’ll put down 50k on the bar at Stonewall in Oxford street. Is that joint still rocking?”
“Fuck me they used to stray from God’s light in the eighties. Good place to get a schooner after midnight that’s for sure”
Twiggy’s stream of consciousness was then interrupted by a young marketing executive who asked if he wanted to serve pizza or canapes at this pride event.
“Haha goodness me” he laughed.
“You kids have a lot to learn. We will be serving nothing but Long Island Ice Teas and amyl poppers”
