Walgreen's and the Gay Games

Tom Kovach, pictured here, apparently takes issue with Walgreen's being an official HIV/AIDS Prevention Sponsor for the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago.

In response to what was quite likely little more than a thinly veiled letter of extortion, Tom received a personal message from the CEO of Walgreen's, conveyed to him by Michael Polzin, a representative from Walgreen's Corporate Communcations.

In response to Mr. Polzin, Tom writes:

He began the e-mail by addressing a Congressional candidate, whom he has never met, and with whom there is a somewhat adversarial relationship, by my first name. I don't expect people to kowtow to me, but I would think that someone in Mr. Polzin's position would want to maintain business decorum. The move was subtle, but set a condescending tone.

Oh Tom, don't mince words -- you don't want him to kowtow to you; you want him to kiss your ass first and THEN kowtow.

You admit that you don't own stock in Walgreen's. Okay. Fine. So, why the fuck do you care what they do?

Take off your black hat and crawl back under the slimey rock from whence you came.


tags: homosexuality, homosexual, gay, homophobia