The Stonewall Inn Stopped Selling Bud Light Over Political Donations

The bar where police raids sparked the 1969 Stonewall uprising has revealed why it stopped serving Bud Light – and it has nothing to do with calls for a boycott over the beer brand’s collaboration with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Co-owners of New York’s Stonewall Inn, Stacy Lentz, and Kurt Kelly, have revealed that the bar turned its back on Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, in 2021. At that time, the bar staged a “Keep Your Pride” campaign, which involved refusing to serve products of companies that claimed to be allies of the queer community but which also donated funds to anti-LGBTQ+ individuals. Lentz said, “The reason we did that… was because they were out there waving the rainbow flag very vehemently, then turning around and contributing to anti-LGBTQ legislators, which can’t happen. Our communities are fed up with that." She also mentioned that Bud Light’s collaboration with Mulvaney was an amazing step and it was a warning for other businesses that they have to cater to GenZ if they wish to last for the next 20 years or 30 years. According to Lentz, the backlash to the collaboration was ridiculous and the fact that they catered to it was alarming. #Queer Up Business
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