Goldman
Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein has become the first major CEO to lend his support to
the Americans for Marriage Equality campaign promoting same-sex marriage.
In a
30-second video, Blankfein said, “America’s corporations learned long ago that
equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.”
Blankfein’s ad is the twelfth video for the campaign which has
included notable figures including New
York Giants’ owner Steve Tisch, whose ad was released in June, actor John
Leguizamo and NFL Cleveland Browns’ linebacker Scott Fujita. The Human Rights Campaign launched Americans for Marriage Equality in October 2011 with Mayor
Cory Booker of Newark, N.J.
“Corporate
America has long since been a leading agent of change and progress for LGBT
equality,” Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a
statement. “While the federal government
continues to discriminate against committed and loving same-sex couples,
America’s companies and executives like Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Blankfein have
made equality for LGBT people a top priority.”
Investment
bank Goldman Sachs, based in New York City, has a non-discrimination policy in
place that includes sexual orientation.
Goldman
Sachs and other investment banks have attracted criticism from groups like
Occupy Wall Street for supporting wealth inequality. But Goldman Sachs’ average
employee bonus was down over 50 percent last year. According to a regulatory
filing on Friday, Blankfein’s bonus was cut in 2011, but he received $7 million
in restricted shares, down from $12.6 million in 2010. He also reportedly has a
base salary of about $2 million.
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