Beer pani are speakg out agast anti-gay laws, even directg their msage to Put.
Contents:
- HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
- 7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
- BEER COMPANI USE THEIR BREWS TO PROTT ANTI-GAY POLICI
HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
On the morng of June 23, othy pours of beer flowed down Christopher Street as Stacy Lentz and Kurt Kelly, -owners of the historic gay bar, were joed by muny members as they dumped out s of beer prott. ” Bud Light, fact, is one of Stonewall’s top sellg beers, but Lentz prefers to serve beers that actively support the queer muny, like Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and the Brooklyn Brewery’s Stonewall IPA. This isn’t the first time a New York Cy gay bar has ed s purchasg power to ph back agast brands wh discrimatory practic.
Rob Hynds, owner of Boxers, a gay sports bar Chelsea, announced 2013 that he’d stop rryg Rsian vodka brands, like Stoli, prott of Rsian print Vladimir Put’s anti-LGBTQ polici.
Sce then, he says he’s seen Stoli “step up” by supportg the lol LGBTQ+ muny by sponsorg events and gay sports teams. Amid 2023’s wave of anti-trans hate, right-wg beer drkers are llg for a boytt of Bud Light—a beer that gay people fely love—over s recent brand partnership wh transgenr actrs Dylan Mulvaney.
7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
For starters, the mob’s only plat seems to be that Mulvaney is a trans woman—a crime I m every day—but the current movement agast Bud Light don’t seem to know that, historilly speakg, boyttg beer is one of the gayt thgs you n do. On the heels of the Lavenr Sre, when gay and lbian ernment employe were forced om their jobs 1950, protectns for queer people the workplace were virtually nonexistent (the first statewi protectns for LGBT workers me 1982, shout out Wisns).
The vibe of gay panic ntued well to the 60s and 70s, when the Coors Brewg Company ed polygraph tts to screen job ndidat for what scribed as “potential troublemakers. Bee of the pany’s reputatn for homophobic hirg practic, unn print Allan Baird reached out to iend and LGBT muny anizer Harvey Milk to help grow the boytt.
BEER COMPANI USE THEIR BREWS TO PROTT ANTI-GAY POLICI
Milk—who later beme the first publicly gay elected official the Uned Stat—put out an impassned ll his Bay Area Reporter lumn wh the headle “Teamsters Seek Gay Help. They avoid buyg Coors products, while lol advocy groups like Bay Area Gay Liberatn rallied gay nightlife hubs, nvcg bar owners to stop sellg the beer.
Throughout the Coors boytts, protts of the pany beme so synonymo wh gay rights that signs prottg the brewery uld often be seen alongsi other lls for gay rights at pri events. The protts grew across the untry over the next , eventually reachg all the way to Massachsetts—where Harvard stunts chanted, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay! " Moreover, before Exxon acquired Mobil 1999, Mobile had "polici to protect discrimatn agast gay men and lbians, and even offered benefs to same-sex upl, " but Exxon took that all away, acrdg to LGBT news se the Dallas perhaps a new low for the pany, the Human Right Campaign gave the massive employer a sre of below zero on s 2012 Corporate Equaly Inx, which measur LGBT equaly and workplace protectns.