Gay people have had a beef with Chick-fil-A ever since we found out CEO Dan Cathy has been funding anti-marriage equality initiatives and anti-gay groups like the Family Research Council. But at least one franchise is trying to improve its reputation with the LGBT community.

This weekend a Chick-Fil-A location in Hollywood held a fundraiser with the national gay-youth group Campus Pride to help raise funds to combat bullying.

Campus Pride director Shane Windmeyer met with Cathy several times last year, and said each man "had expanded his world without abandoning it." Activists and pundits didn't buy it, though: They insisted Chick-Fil-A was still giving to anti-gay causes, and pointed out that the company had zero LGBT-inclusive workplace policies. As much as 70% of LGBT people say they're still boycotting the poultry purveyor.

Despite the friction Jeremiah Cillpam, owner of a Chick-fil-A franchise on Sunset Boulevard, is trying to keep things amicable on the local level: During Saturday's fundraiser an unspecified percent of sales went to Campus Pride’s month-long effort to raise money for an anonymous $10,000 matching grant. A table was also set up with pamphlets about Campus Pride and the Stand Up Foundation, an anti-bullying organization.

Frontiers L.A. spoke with Windmeyer about the event:

We’re not going to turn away anyone who wants to be an ally and help us fundraise.

Activism is dirty work. It’s work that some people don’t always agree on the journey or the past and today we were just trying to be positive, to move forward and to do things that are common ground issues.

Last year, Cillpam also sponsored a faith-based LGBT film festival called Level Ground.