AT COORS, A BREWING DILEMMA OVER GAY RIGHTS - The Washgton Post

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• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• AT COORS, A BREWING DILEMMA OVER GAY RIGHTS

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

'” 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. 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. Part of the anti-unn mpaign was to fire whout e workers spected of beg lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer om s Colorado-based brewery.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Workers who applied for posns at Coors unrwent lie tector tts which they were asked their opns about llective bargag and if they were homosexual. Along wh the Dghters of Bilis, a lbian rights anizatn, Mattache was one of the first gay rights anizatn the U. Kight was never a narrow gay rights advote.

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. Although other anizatns later lled an end to the boytt of Coors Beer, the boytt ntu until today, where is virtually impossible to fd a gay bar sellg Coors Beer. He had a romantic relatnship wh Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official the Uned Stat, who won a seat on the San Francis Cy Council 1977.

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. Gay activists at the time secured full agreement of gay tablishments not to sell Coors Beer, dramatilly dumpg Coors beers down the dra and to the streets. 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.

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