
In January 2011, the media reported that the American fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A was co-sponsoring a marriage conference along with the Pennsylvania Family Institute (PFI), an organization that had filed an amicus brief against striking down Proposition 8 in California (see Perry v. The Family Research Council, an organization listed as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Winter 2010, received $1000. Protestors at a Memphis, Tennessee Chick-fil-A store on Same Sex Kiss Day WinShape contributed grants to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Exodus International, an organization noted for supporting ex-gay conversion therapy. Equality Matters, an LGBT watchdog group, published reports of donations by WinShape to organizations that the watchdog group considers anti-gay, including $2 million in 2009, $1.9 million in 2010 and a total of $5 million since 2003, including grants to the Family Research Council and Georgia Family Council. Chick-fil-A gave over $8 million to the WinShape Foundation in 2010. Truett Cathy and his family, stated that it would not allow same-sex couples to participate in its marriage retreats.

The WinShape Foundation, a charitable endeavor of Chick-fil-A founder S. History Group contributions from opponents of LGBT causes

The outcome of the initial controversy was mixed, as Chick-fil-A's sales rose twelve percent to $4.6 billion in the period immediately following the controversy this was largely attributed to former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee's counter-boycott launched in support of the restaurant. National political figures both for and against the actions spoke out and some business partners severed ties with the chain. Activists called for protests and boycotts, while supporters of the restaurant chain and opponents of same-sex marriage ate there in support of the restaurant. Truett Cathy-operated WinShape Foundation, had donated millions of dollars to organizations seen by LGBT activists as hostile to LGBT rights. This followed reports that Chick-fil-A's charitable endeavor, the S.

Cathy, Chick-fil-A's chief executive officer, related issues have arisen between the international fast food restaurant and the LGBT community.
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In June 2012, following a series of public comments opposing same-sex marriage by Dan T. "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day" held on Augin Port Charlotte, Florida
