Amazon, Delta, Pfizer and Tesla among companies backing LGBTQ bill

Amazon, Delta Air Lines, Pfizer and Tesla are among the more than 400 corporations supporting civil rights legislation for LGBTQ people, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

Dozens of Fortune 500 companies are among the 416 members of the Washington-based advocacy group's Business Coalition for the Equality Act, including Apple, CVS, Facebook, General Motors, Home Depot, Marriott, PepsiCo and Starbucks.  "It's time that civil rights protections be extended to LGBT+ individuals nationwide on a clear, consistent and comprehensive basis," Carla Grant Pickens, IBM's chief diversity and inclusion officer, said Tuesday in a statement distributed by the Human Rights Campaign.