Entreprenr says Bud Light got all wrong, looks to sh on fias wh ‘Gay Water’

Contents:

• HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER
• COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
• ENTREPRENR SAYS BUD LIGHT GOT ALL WRONG, LOOKS TO SH ON FIAS WH ‘GAY WATER’

HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

" 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. 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'...

Well, ors le was actually the first beer pany to promote gay rights all the way back 1978. I thought we all already knew drkg Bud Light was gay...

When was not gay?

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

When I saw men drkg ten years ago I thought the same as I do today, "GAY! So, GAY! 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.

MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

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. 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. The protts grew across the untry over the next , eventually reachg all the way to Massachsetts—where Harvard stunts chanted, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay!

“I’m not bothered by gay people or transsexual people. *Photo cred: Gay Water via Instagram. Where Bud Light sks, Gay Water ris to the ocsn.

COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE

On Thursday, the brightly-packaged nned alholic beverage Gay Water lnched s way to happy hours. Named after the nickname given to the vodka and soda bo that’s equently orred gay bars, Gay Water wants to be the drk of choice for the queer muny. Spencer Hodson, a gay man, created the product wh the LGBTQ+ muny md.

ENTREPRENR SAYS BUD LIGHT GOT ALL WRONG, LOOKS TO SH ON FIAS WH ‘GAY WATER’

Hodson created Gay Water to be out, loud, and proud.

And while Gay Water’s four sugar-ee flavors, watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu, n be purchased select retailers, Gay Water’s reach is expand through onle sal. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self. Sometim great ias start om vatn nversatns, as did the creatn of Gay Water.

Wh that, Hodson believ that ’s “exactly the right time” to enter Gay Water to the market.