Ben and jerrys gay ice cream

Ashleigh Rader

Content Developer at Chocolate University Online

All her life, Ashleigh has enjoyed, indulged in, and spread the gift of chocolate.

For a limited time, the specially named flavor will be available at participating Scoop Shops in a commemorative pint sleeve. “You’d be furious! On Friday, Ben & Jerry's renamedSupreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide. Ben & Jerry's writes on its website that in 1989, it was "the first major employer in Vermont to offer health insurance to domestic partners of employees, including same sex couples, and we haven’t spent one minute regretting it."

In 2009, the company celebrated the legalization of gay marriage in Vermont by renaming the "Chubby Hubby" flavor to "Hubby Hubby." A year later, one of Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shops in Washington, D.C.

served as the venue for a gay wedding, when same sex couples could first tie the knot in the district.

The company is a longtime supporter of equal rights.

An estimated 72 percent of Australians support marriage equality, but in November, its Senate rejected the idea of holding a national vote on the issue.

Another Featured Cause

Ben and Jerry’s is also on the ball when it comes to climate change. If you want to celebrate with your own pint at home, the sleeve can also be purchased online through the Human Rights campaign, with all proceeds benefitting the organization. Even though its approach might seem silly or trivial, it added fuel to a dialogue that had been stagnating, and has reminded Australians that this inequality is still unresolved (even after two of its neighbors, New Zealand and Taiwan, have already taken the steps to legalize same-sex marriages).

Ben & Jerry’s has previously launched campaigns encouraging support for marriage equality in Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand, but the same-scoop ban is a new approach. And, they have been a part of a group of businesses that urged the Supreme Court to end the ban on same-sex marriage. Back in 2009, they came up with the name “Hubby Hubby” to replace the “Chubby Hubby” flavor in honor of the state of Vermont’s legalization of gay marriage.

Twenty years prior to that, Ben and Jerry’s had begun offering health insurance benefits to the same-sex partners of their employees in 1989.

“Ben & Jerry’s is proud of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision against discrimination as it boldly stands up for equality for same sex couples everywhere,” Jostein Solheim, the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s, said in a press release. She says, "life's too short to skip dessert." Ashleigh joined CUO to help share on our blog and social networks more about the wonders of chocolate.

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