Dignity Health, the San Francisco-based half of the newly merged CommonSpirit Health, will no longer put its name on a Broadway Sacramento (Calif.) theater after patrons threatened to boycott productions over the health system sponsorship, The Sacramento Bee reports.
Theatergoers first threatened the boycott when the partnership was announced in October, according to Capital Public Radio. At issue are the health system's religious directives, which the Sacramento LGBTQ community says have limited care. Concerns center on the case of Evan Minton, who sued Dignity in 2017 for canceling his gender-reassignment surgery days before it was scheduled at a Catholic-affiliated hospital. Mr. Minton later received care at a non-Catholic Dignity Health hospital, the health system told Capital Public Radio.
The health system called off the theater sponsorship Nov. 8, according to The Sacramento Bee. Laurie Harting, president of Dignity Health's Greater Sacramento division, told The Sacramento Bee that the health system didn't want its partnership to become a distraction. "After discussion with Broadway Sacramento and a number of community stakeholders, we have agreed that the best course is to find another way to support Broadway Sacramento's work," she said in a statement, according to the report.
University of California, San Francisco also dropped a partnership with Dignity Health due to concerns from the LGBTQ community, according to the report.
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