Two Minnesota-based Fortune 500 companies, Target and General Mills, have announced support for the Equality Act, a bill pending in Congress that would amend civil rights laws to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

In late-July, General Mills added its name to the growing list of corporations backing the Equality Act. In a statement, the company said:

“At General Mills we have a long history of supporting LGBT equality and the time has come in this country for full, federal equality for the LGBT community. Ensuring fairness in our workplaces and communities is both the right thing to do and simply good business.”

On Thursday, Target announced its support for the Equality Act in a blog post on the company’s corporate blog:

Target has signed on in support of the Equality Act. Introduced in Congress this year, the bill would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and ban discrimination in areas including employment, housing, access to credit, public education and accommodations.
“Target proudly stands with the LGBT community through all that we do,” says Caroline Wanga, Target’s senior director of diversity and inclusion, “from our partnerships with organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), to our volunteer efforts, and even the products we sell. We want to be a champion for an inclusive society by using our influence and resources to support equality in the communities where our team members and guests live and work.”

In addition to Target and General Mills, the growing list of corporate sponsors of the Equality Act includes: Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, the Dow Chemical Company, Facebook, General Mills, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Levi Strauss & Co, Microsoft, Nike, Oracle, Orbitz, PayPal and Symantec Corporation.