Old Navy Store in the Mall of Georgia outside of Atlanta. Photo: John Disney / ALM
A 2019 film shoot for the Netflix series Queer Eye was the subject of a racial discrimination lawsuit after a Philadelphia Old Navy employee, who was filming the film, alleged that white temporary workers from across the region were bused there. to be shown they were working in the store while the black and asian employees were forced to stay in the back of the store away from the camera.
The lawsuit, Clarke v Old Navy, was filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.