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A local super yacht operator has abandoned plans for an LGBT-friendly event after an employee said it did not want to target the “trashy transexual kind.”
The people behind LGBTQ meetup app Prout leaked the exchange with a Royal Albatross yacht employee on social media yesterday, at first without naming the company, adding that it would no longer work with it following insensitive messages about what “type” of people it wanted for the event.
“I just don’t want to damage my brand, only want like-minded people,” the unidentified yacht employee said over chat. “Because we [are] not targeting the trashy transexual kind who only want to create trouble.”
Netizens were quick to identify the operator as Sentosa island’s Royal Albatross, which has since apologized for the messages and dropped its Loveislove sail event.
Prout cofounder Cally Cheung told Coconuts yesterday that Royal Albatross has blocked her company on Instagram despite the ship’s CEO personally emailing her an apology. Royal Albatross has not responded to Coconuts’ queries.
“I have just communicated with the CEO as he emailed me personally to apologise and also share with me his public apology as our social media account remains blocked by them,” Cheung said.
According to Prout, the yacht operator reached out earlier this week for help promoting a series of private dinners targeting the LGBT community. Prout originally agreed to the idea and had even promoted it on Instagram until an unnamed Royal Albatross employee got back to say that the company only wanted the LG but not the T in LGBT.
“They are very intense and we don’t need the drama and they cannot afford. They only want to create trouble, maybe we are more to the gay and lesbians group?” screenshots of the exchange showed.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/trashy-t...t-event-on-sentosa-super-yacht-105109943.html
