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It’s a simple proposn: A craft beer, owned by a gay uple and marketed to the LGBT muny.

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CHRIS FARLEY AND ADAM SANDLER’S PROPHETIC 1991 “GAY BEER AD”

Gay beer won, and the fight wasn't even close. First, they were ignored. Then they were lghed at. Then they fought them. Now, the LGBTQ muny has won.  * gay beer ad *

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.

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.

BEER IS SO GAY

A new group of beer pani and breweri like Gay Beer and Queer Brewg are supportg LGBTQ+ muni while rvg out space the beer world for queerns * gay beer ad *

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.

GAY BEER

Gay Beer partners wh Craft Beer Distributor Craft Collective to distribute Gay Beer. * gay beer ad *

GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, has scribed Coors as "among the most progrsive for s employee polici toward gays.

Drk Gay Beer.

What mak Gay? The happs nnectg over good beer is always a Gay ole time. Now have the opportuny to go straight for Gay Beer!

GAY BEER WORLD PRI 2019

Several Chigo gay bars will stop sellg Anhser-Bch products to prott the pany's handlg of an anti-transgenr boytt. * gay beer ad *

Brewed wh a choice blend of Vienna Malt and Mandara Hops, Gay Beer is a goln lager wh not of honey and crisp cs that’s sure to satisfy you beer drkers. Go straight for Gay Beer!

Digned to speak directly and thentilly to diverse nsumers, Gay Beer is tend to pneer change and clivy the beer market.

Honorg the rich herage of the LGBTQ+ muni past while regnizg the tegry of the muni prent, Gay Beer celebrat the nnectns ma through sharg a beer wh the people you love. As avid beer drkers and members of the queer muny, Jason Pazmo and Jon Moore found Loyal Brands and created Gay Beer to start a nversatn and make a nnectn. They ve everyone to go straight for Gay Beer!

HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

Some folks thk this ary-themed Budweiser mercial has a gay vibe, which would put at odds wh most of the brewer's lunk-headly hetero mass-media advertisg. It seems unlikely that any subtle gay subtext was tend. * gay beer ad *

Interted Partnerg Wh Gay Beer? Loyal Brands Gay Beer.

Y., Gay Beer is currently available select NYC Whole Foods lotns, on the NYC Ferry, as well as onle through TapRm. A portn of Gay Beer proceeds go to LGBTQ advocy groups each quarter, Gay Beer tells VePair.

CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER

Loyal Brands' label-centric Gay Beer rais qutns about what means to "thentilly" target the LGBTQ craft beer muny. * gay beer ad *

[1991 SNL] Schmts Gay Beer Commercial. The edy duo did a short film/ad parody that troduced the world to “gay beer. Sce the beer dtry began, no beer pany ever marketed to the gay muny.

IS THIS BUDWEISER AD GAY?

Then 1991, Sandler and Farley did a “what if” parody that showed what a typil “T-N-A” beer mercial would look like if they advertised to the gay muny. And sce then, folks lghed at the ia of a macho beer pany marketg to the gay muny.

Above and beyond that, they began supportg the gay muny many other ways. Beyond supportg Denver PriFt, Molson Coors has a distguished history of supportg LGBTQ muni across the untry, wh signifint support for anizatns such as Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Matthew Shepard Foundatn, Natnal Amatr Gay Athletics Associatn of Ameri, Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce, LGBT Victory Instute, Out & Equal, and One Colorado. From New York to Texas, some breweri have proudly ma products and marketed them specifilly to the gay muny.

PRI AND POLICS: GAY BEER AND MARKETG ‘AUTHENTICY’

Rock was nvced that beer isn’t gay — never has been, never will be. The “articl” were om a satire se, but the mns termed to stamp out gay beer didn’t know that, and fell for the prank hook, le, and sker. Now, unlike 1991, wasn’t the ia of “gay beer” beg lghed at, was the folks who thk that “gay beer n’t exist and if tri we will stroy ” crowd beg lghed at.

Ined, gay beer won — and the fight wasn’t even close. They better hope that gay meth or gay opids don’t h the market, or they might jt have to sober up and jo the rt of the real world.

This turn has led to a rponse of an altogether more lic variety: Gay Water, a new premium nned cktail brand packaged lorful ntaers and named after the slang term ed for vodka and soda water wh lemon or lime, a popular drk served gay bars. Gay Water offers four different varieti of sugar-ee, gluten-ee vodka and soda cktails bed wh var, well, uy flavorg agents: watermelon, peach, lime, and grapeu. Gay means happy.

WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?

Appearg time to take advantage of the nned cktail boom, Gay Water won't be direct petn wh Bud Light, which is a beer brand. Hodson, a gay man, is not only terted Gay Water appealg to LGTBQ+ nsumers, of urse. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

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

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

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