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Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did.

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CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Disney is a particularly pellg se, that ially remaed quiet about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and was wily cricized for by LGBTQ groups and advot. Beyond the 2016 “Labels” spot, the Bud Light Party mpaign also clud a fun ad about gay weddgs.

“I’m not bothered by gay people or transsexual people. " Ball lik to pot out that rporatns are far om perfect, wh disturbgly homogeno workplac that are far om beg tly diverse, clive or equal. A Harvard Universy study that analyzed data om over 4 ln tts of attus between 2007 and 2016 found anti-gay bias had creased by 33% over the 10-year perd.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

In an terview on 60 Mut 1997, Disney CEO Michael Eisner fend his pany's clive stance: "We do not put up signs that say, 'No Blacks Allowed, No Jews Allowed, No Homosexuals Allowed'... Baird, notably, reached out to his gay neighbors on Castro Street, key among them a radil labor activist named Howard Wallace and a lol mera-shop owner and aspirg polician, Harvey Milk.

Milk told Baird that he had to get unn jobs for openly gay men and women. Baird agreed to both, and a historic gay–labor aln was born.

’ ” Owners and patrons plied, and Coors beme a rare sight at gay bars and clubs.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

By the 1990s, Joe and other fay members were also lked to Moral Majory and anti-gay, fay-valu ndidat and . ” It was, the leaflet said, “Trickle Down Homophobia. 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.

It ultimately took the pany two years to secure the land for s new brewery, all while litely balancg overtur to both nservativ and gay nsumers. ” It simply wasn’t worth to try to w them over, suggted the firm: “The gay muny’s negative feelgs n ep. Claim: Some Bud Light prt advertisg rried gay publitns featured same-sex upl holdg hands.

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Canned cktail 'Gay Water' aims to sh on Bud Light's mistak .

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