It’s a simple proposn: A craft beer, owned by a gay uple and marketed to the LGBT muny.
Contents:
- HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
- BEER IS SO GAY
- WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
- GAY MEN, WE HAVE A DRKG PROBLEM
HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
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'” Coors Light: “The f*** you are, ” wh pictur of both Bud Light’s special Pri edn and Coors Light’s history of backg the LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn GLAAD has scribed Coors as “among the most progrsive for s employee polici toward gays” and noted that the pany has been advertisg gay papers sce the also claims to be the first brewer to adopt a non-discrimatn policy on sexual orientatn back Irony of Boyttg Bud LightSome people are tellg others to stop drkg Bud Light and start drkg Coors Light bee they thk Bud Light supports transgenr rights. GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, has scribed Coors as "among the most progrsive for s employee polici toward gays.
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. 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 IS SO GAY
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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.
WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
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The protts grew across the untry over the next , eventually reachg all the way to Massachsetts—where Harvard stunts chanted, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay! In 2014, Heeken lnched a mpaign featurg Neil Patrick Harris, the brand’s first openly gay ambassador. Y., Gay Beer is currently available select NYC Whole Foods lotns, on the NYC Ferry, as well as onle through TapRm.
A portn of Gay Beer proceeds go to LGBTQ advocy groups each quarter, Gay Beer tells VePair. Of urse, Bud Light has been a prence at gay bars and Pri events for years.
But Max Dubler, a munitns manager for Los Angel-based affordable hog advocy group Abundant Hog, rpond to one tweet wh a lk to a 2020 amic paper examg the alliance between gay bars and labor unns durg the 1977 Coors beer boytt. “Bud Le has been the flt cheap beer at gay bars sce 1977, when labor unns and LGBT groups anized a boytt of Coors to prott Coors’ practice of forcg employe to take polygraph tts that clud qutns about their sexual orientatn, ” Dubler tweeted. Bud Le has been the flt cheap beer at gay bars sce 1977, when labor unns and LGBT groups anized a boytt of Coors to prott Coors' practice of forcg employe to take polygraph tts that clud qutns about their sexual orientatn.
GAY MEN, WE HAVE A DRKG PROBLEM
After the shootg, Benz’s iends began avoidg gay bars, but Benz wasn’t about to let the attack keep him om the plac and people he found solace . Gay bars were supposed to be safe spac for the LGBTQ+ muny, and the Pulse shootg was a vlent remr that fdg those spac is sometim easier said than done. Referrg to gay or lbian bars, a safe space was a place to socialize wh like-md people — and maybe fd love — while providg a sense of safety and muny.