Citibank's Gay Problem

Once again, I fail to see the story here - Citibank stated it was a technical misunderstanding and they resolved the issue. They didn't wait weeks or months and are only responding to pressure, they did it within days once they were notified of the mix-up. This is hardly "Citibank's Gay Problem" - a bank that has and continues to support a number of different GLBT organizations.

To Gary the homophobe: "Some queens" did not do this. Some breeders did. This is an example of how meaningless all the fake liberal pronouncements are from politicians and businesses like Citibank. I will never again do business with them.

Gary, et al, you are like the Jews who could not believe the Nazis really disliked them. Pollyanna is alive and it reads The Advocate. You tipped your hand writing "some queens" while you defend Citibank: gay self hatred is worth getting out of. Citibank deserves to be trashed for this, can it be any plainer? Wake up.

I am also of the mind that this is just a gaff by some schmucks at Shittybank just misreading what was actually the problem. Could they be homophobic or some queens just trying to be smart asses, who knows. The bigger problem is that this bank is so disjointed and departments so spread out that one doesn't know what the other is doing. Customer service is abysmal, yet they keep pestering their account holders at their local branches to fill out customer services surveys or calling them on the phone in what amounts to an insincere campaign to make it look like they care. They don't care, the bank has lost billions on their investment side, they were bailed out by us taxpayers through TARP, the investment bank side has been caught numerous times by the Fed and other governmental agencies for shady dealings, and they continue to "screw" over their individual retail banking customers through fees and account mishandlings to make up for their corp management dealings.

What self hatred for any gay person to write here defending homophobia! No, this was not "just a mistake". Shittybank can put a spin on this and donate for the next 100 years to various causes, but the truth is they hate homosexuality thus pulled the plug on this account, Only to back off once the heat was on. Of course, they can not "approve" of sex businesses, but businesses that murder people-such as war profits- are OK. They are so moral. Any Uncle Tom writing here to support this monsterous organization is beyond help. The only reason why our struggle for rights has come as far as it has is because we kick homophobes like Shittybank each time the oppress us and keep the pressure on. They can endorse, along with other "friends" like Obama, the police and company- all the proclamations in the world. When push comes to shove they are still our enemy and we have to always watch them and raise a howl everytime they try to crap on us.

guys u need to relax...just because some reception nobody made a bad judgement call doesnt mean the COMPANY as a whole is responsible they oppologized and i really think it was just a one man mistake kind of thing

@cmh, you're pretty naive, too. How does one get from "a technical issue about missing documentation" to "objectionable blog content"? You mean to tell me that THREE different people thought missing documents were objectionable blog posts? Seriously? Explain to me how that might happen. Here I am, Joe Schmoe, looking over an account to see if it's complete, see some missing documentation, so I put a hold on the account. I call Bill Dingle in the next cube and say, "Hey - XYZ account is missing some documentations, so I closed the account - would you send them a letter letting them know? Or call them? Or answer their phone calls when they call asking what it's about?" Bill then promptly writes them a letter and calls them saying, "You perverts have been shut down!" Is THAT what you think happened, cmh? Explain it to me if you think it's a different scenario - other than HOMOPHOBES doing what HOMOPHOBES do.

So Citibank scored a 100 on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) scale. Hell, anyone that donates money to the HRC can buy a 100 rating. Isn't that they way that Peter Coors got his for his company? HRC is a BUSINESS. A business to make money. It has nothing to do with human rights or gay civil rights, and if you think otherwise, you're naive as hell or part of the scam.

I think people may be jumping to quickly to conclusions here. There obviously was a mistake and the officials moved quickly to correct it and made a profuse apology about it. Mistakes do happen folks. To attribute it to some type of organizational stance against the LGBT community seems pretty misguided in my opinion.

I will never od business of anykind with citibank again after reading this article.