What "intimidation" led the beer companies to drop their sponsorship? Were their trucks bombed? Their executives' families threatened? Those are crimes. Or are you talking about threats of boycotts, which are free speech?
What intimidation? Seriously?
Perhaps you have not been watching in recent years the machinations of the radical homosexual movement, and yes, intimidation is the larger part of it. Maybe you’ve missed their aggressive, even violent behavior. I suppose you may not be aware of the trouble they have made for companies that don’t bow to their wishes.
Many, if not most, of the large companies are now so afraid of drawing the ire of the militant homosexualists, that they cave at the first hint of their displeasure. All it took for Guinness to bow was one infamous homosexual bar threatening to pour Guinness beer from its roof.
If you want to somehow argue that what happened here is a normal part of of “free association” void of homo-radical intimidation, then I guess there’s really nothing I can say to you, because you and I will never agree.