When word reached the corporate offices of Cracker Barrel last week that an anti-LGBTQ pastor and his group planned an event at one of its restaurants in Tennessee, the company released a sharply worded statement barring them. “We serve everyone who walks through our doors with genuine hospitality, not hate, and require all guests to do the same,” it said. It would have been hard to foresee this back in 1991, when Cracker Barrel instituted a ban on hiring gays and lesbians and fired nine employees. But then there are a lot of things that would have surprised the generation of gay and lesbian activists who boycotted Cracker Barrel back in the 90s.