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Contents:

• OUT OF THE BREWG STORM: AS THE OPENLY GAY SON OF WILLIAM COORS, PATRIARCH OF THE FAMOLY NSERVATIVE FAY, STT COORS MAY BE THE BEER PANY'S BT WEAPON AGAST A 24-YEAR BOYTT. (BS).
• HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
• AT COORS, A BREWING DILEMMA OVER GAY RIGHTS
• ‘A POLIL FIGHT OVER BEER’: THE 1977 COORS BEER BOYTT, AND THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN LABOUR–GAY ALLIANC AND LGBT SOCIAL MOBILY

OUT OF THE BREWG STORM: AS THE OPENLY GAY SON OF WILLIAM COORS, PATRIARCH OF THE FAMOLY NSERVATIVE FAY, STT COORS MAY BE THE BEER PANY'S BT WEAPON AGAST A 24-YEAR BOYTT. (BS).

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HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

The stggle agast Coors Beer, embodied the Coors Beer Boytt that began 1977 and ntued through the Reagan years and beyond, is an important example of workg class uny that took up the banner of LGBTQ rights through an unshakable alliance of gay activists and anizatns, labor unns, immigrant rights groups and other anti-racist sectors, settg the basis for the uny that the movements share today.

AT COORS, A BREWING DILEMMA OVER GAY RIGHTS

But perhaps, Kight was bt known his role for lkg the LGBTQ rights movement at the time wh the larger people’s unter offensive agast the right-wg, when he lled a powerful monstratn at Outft, a gay and lbian film ftival, 1977, after anizers for the LGBTQ social event accepted fundg om Coors Beer.

‘A POLIL FIGHT OVER BEER’: THE 1977 COORS BEER BOYTT, AND THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN LABOUR–GAY ALLIANC AND LGBT SOCIAL MOBILY

Smh brought the Coors Boytt to Harvey Milk’s attentn, who ed his posn as an openly gay elected official to ph forward the labor/LGBTQ/immigrant alliance that was formg the Bay Area at the time through the ancy of the Coors Boytt. There were many others the LGBTQ movement who played key rol, such as Howard Wallace, an openly gay Teamster who helped tablish the the labor-LGBTQ alliance; and of urse, and the untold number of rank and file muny members who would not support any tablishment that served Coors Beer or any of their products.