Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
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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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS 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. 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. 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. 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.
AT COORS, A BREWING DILEMMA OVER GAY RIGHTS
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.