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• TAG ARCHIV: MILLER COORS GAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• DIRTY DICKSONE OF THE OLST GAY CISE BAR AMSTERDAM WH A REPUTATN FOR FAMO PARTI.AMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDIRTY DICKS
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

TAG ARCHIV: MILLER COORS GAY

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 1980s. '” 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.

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

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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. 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.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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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The gay iendly beer producer announced last week that would merge wh Coors Brewg Company, which has long been the target of a boytt by members of the LGBT muny.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

"The Miller brand is popular among gay men and will ntue to be affiliated wh the Bare Cht Calendar. Coors later hired openly gay Stt Coors, son of the former pany head William Coors, who worked there om 1998 to 2005.

"None of the profs om the sale of any Coors product funds anti-gay anizatns or , " wrote Devigil, "nor do the money go to private fay foundatns...

Coors Brewg Company mak no ntributns to any anti-gay or socially divisive group or e.