Holiday sales have become a vital component of the retail sales cycle for millions of small businesses. Overall, we found 51 percent of U.S. small business owners believe Valentine's Day sales are important to their business and are optimistic that sales will be rosy this year. |
It is extremely important for these youth, who many times aren't getting support from the families, their communities or their teachers, to have a place where they can go and be themselves. |
We have people coming in that are reporting that they're having difficulties wondering if they need to go back into the closet and not feeling safe. |
When you have a group saying we're not going to support [gay marriage], in fact, we'll work against it, saying we don't want you to get married, or raise or adopt kids — when that's the message, it has tremendous effects. |