Posted on 05/05/2023 4:54:08 PM PDT by simpson96
A slew of Chicago gay bars have stopped selling Anheuser Busch InBev products after the beer giant distanced itself from transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light marketing campaign amid anti-trans backlash.
2Bears Tavern Group, which owns four gay bars from Uptown to Rogers Park, was the first to drop Anheuser-Busch InBev, posting on Instagram Thursday that its abandonment of Mulvaney amid controversy “shows how little Anheuser-Busch cares about the LGBTQIA+ community, and in particular transgender people, who have been under unrelenting attack in this country.”
Sidetrack, a 41-year-old gay bar founded by LGBTQ rights pioneers Art Johnston and Jose Pepé Peña, later made the same announcement.
“We must also hold brands accountable if they take active steps against LGBTQ+ equality, visibility and safety,” Sidetrack posted.
The gay bars will no longer sell all Anheuser-Busch products, including Bud Light, Busch Light and Goose Island 312.(snip)
The team behind 2Bears Tavern Group accused the company of erasing “transgender people in favor of anti-trans vitriol.” The bar group includes 2Bears Tavern Uptown, Jackhammer, Meetinghouse Tavern and the SoFo Tap.
Sidetrack said the CEO’s statement “wrongfully validates the position that it is acceptable to acquiesce to the demands of those who do not support the trans community.”
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Will sell more marketing text books and may push New Coke out of the biggest marketing blunders of all time.
But, Anheiser Busche makes a lot of the other beers, too, so they are not harmed financially by somebody buying one of their other beers instead.
That’s going to leave a mark. /s
Unity!
Is that why Mrs Obamanation decided to sell fruit flavored sugar water to kids?
I assume you posted to the wrong post, cuz I’m not sure what this has to do with queer beer.
Boycotting the support of the alphabet people. The alphabet people deciding to join us is incidental.
getting squeezed between a rock and a hard place
exactly
our boycott is bigger than their boycott
Just makes the point that they never should have changed advertising. If gays were drinking it when their advertising was non-political, they really f’d themselves trying to push an agenda
Granted this is an unscientific survey, but when I went shopping at a big box store this morning Budweiser products for the most part were fully stocked. Busch light was missing a few cases at the cooler. It is possible the Budweiser product were restocked before the Miller Lite products, however the Miller Lite rep or a store employee was rolling in cases of Miller Lite when I passed by the liquor section..
And even outlaws don't drink it.
And don't try to catch a falling knife.
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