Gay bars Chigo are boyttg Anhser-Bch products over a statement om the pany's CEO distancg the brand om Dylan Mulvaney.
Contents:
- CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT, OTHER ANHSER-BCH BEERS AFTER BRAND BACKS DOWN TO ANTI-TRANS CRICS
- THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY
- CHIGO GAY BARS BOYTT ANHSER-BCH FOR DISTANCG ITSELF FROM DYLAN MULVANEY
CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT, OTHER ANHSER-BCH BEERS AFTER BRAND BACKS DOWN TO ANTI-TRANS CRICS
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NORTHALSTED — A slew of Chigo gay bars have stopped sellg Anhser Bch InBev products after the beer giant distanced self om transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light marketg mpaign amid anti-trans backlash. 2Bears Tavern Group, which owns four gay bars om Uptown to Rogers Park, was the first to drop Anhser-Bch InBev, postg on Instagram Thursday that s abandonment of Mulvaney amid ntroversy “shows how ltle Anhser-Bch r about the LGBTQIA+ muny, and particular transgenr people, who have been unr unrelentg attack this untry. ”Sitrack, a 41-year-old gay bar found by LGBTQ rights pneers Art Johnston and Jose Pepé Peña, later ma the same announcement.
THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY
“We mt also hold brands acuntable if they take active steps agast LGBTQ+ equaly, visibily and safety, ” Sitrack gay bars will no longer sell all Anhser-Bch products, cludg Bud Light, Bch Light and Goose Island ntroversy began after Anhser-Bch partnered wh Mulvaney for a sponsored post and lnched a le of Pri-themed ns wh var took to social media to exprs transphobic outrage over the Mulvaney partnership, cludg an Instagram clip of untry mician Kid Rock shootg four s of Bud Light wh a rifle and ctomers vowg they would stop drkg Bud Light. The Saloon, one of Mneapolis’s most popular gay bars, announced on June 19 that has cut ti wh brewg giant Anhser-Bch, cg the pany’s rponse to the anti-trans backlash agast s marketg mpaign featurg actrs Dylan Mulvaney, as WCCO first reported. The Saloon isn’t the first bar to drop Anhser-Bch beers — a number of Chigo gay bars cut ti May.
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CHIGO GAY BARS BOYTT ANHSER-BCH FOR DISTANCG ITSELF FROM DYLAN MULVANEY
As Joe’s brother Bill put a 1977 meetg wh gay activists Los Angel, “We found out that the gay muny was havg a boytt of our product, and this was the first time that we knew there was a very well-fed gay muny. In 1979 Coors add sexual orientatn to s nondiscrimatn clse and began payg for ads gay publitns.
Many gay activists refed to see the efforts as anythg more than disgenuo payoffs and have vigoroly protted Coors’ sponsorships over the years.
In 1979, when the pany sought to open a send brewery on the East Coast, Virgia’s Shenandoah Valley, lols worried that their home would bee “a haven for homosexuals” bee of Coors’ advertisg mpaigns.