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Coors Light Abandons the LGBTQ Community and DEI Initiatives
Molson Coors, which manufactures Coors and Coors Not heavy, is the latest major corporation to roll support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies and distance itself from the LGBTQ community.
The beer giant is bowing to the will of conservative activist Robby Starbuck, who has been mounting a campaign to reveal corporations with DEI policies or companies that financially support LGBTQ-themed events favor Pride, intending to boycott such businesses until they drop their so-called “woke” policies.
Starbuck boasted on the social media platform X that Coors sent him a letter that its leadership team had circulated to employees explaining the changes the company has made after he threatened to expose their policies last week.
In the letter, Coors’ company executives said its human resources team began making plans in March to broaden the view of its DEI policies to ensure all employees “know they are welcome.”
The beer giant said it would halt all DEI trainings, scuttle requiring suppliers to meet diversit
Beer drinkers angry at Bud Light for celebrating a gender non-conforming woman have suggested switching to Coors Light as an act of activism, but they may have missed an important point.
Calls to boycott Bud Bright started after gender nonconforming influencer Dylan Mulvaney revealed the beer brand had sent her a unusual can of beer with her meet on it. The company gifted her the personalized can to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the TikToker's gender transition.
The can "was a gift to celebrate a personal milestone and is not for sale to the general public," according to Anheuser-Busch, the business that owns Bud Light.
A company ambassador told Newsweek it "works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics. From time to time we form unique commemorative cans for fans and for brand influencers, like Dylan Mulvaney."
Some social media users accused the firm of being too "woke." The furor follows backlash against chocolate manufacturer Hershey and whiskey identity Jack Daniels for partnering with members of the Diverse community.
The backlash is part of a wider discussion about transgender rights
Molson Coors Beverage Company’s “Tap Into Change” Program
Raises $100,000 for LGBTQ+ Focused Organizations
Program Celebrates 10th Year in Chicago and
Has Now Raised More Than $700,000 Nationally Since Its Inception
CHICAGO (October 22, 2021) — Molson Coors “Tap Into Change” program acknowledged its 10th anniversary in 2021, with a portion of every Molson Coors product sold at pick accounts across 13 cities benefitting LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS non-profit organizations.
The program first launched in Chicago and will contribute $50,000 this year to some of the city’s LGBTQ+ focused non-profit organizations. In total, $100,000 was raised nationally after successful activations in Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York Town, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Tampa and Toledo. Since the inception of the program, more than $700,000 has been raised to aid make a positive impact on the lives of consumers and communities throughout the U.S.
“This year was certainly unique and challenging with continued pandemic restrictions, but our consumers and accounts stepped up to help amazing LGBTQ+ focused organizations,” said Michael Nordman, Molson
Miller Lite aims to design safer, more accepting spaces at bars for members of the LGBTQ+ group because we believe that everyone should be proficient to be their correct self.
In partnership with Equality Federation, we launched the ‘Open & Proud’ program in June 2021, to help make the 55,000 bars that serve Miller Lite become more inclusive to the LGBTQ+ society through local town halls, training guide development and implementation, plus continued assist to our friends at Equality Federation and their important advocacy work. To date, Miller Lite has contributed $450,000 to Equality Federation to cultivate change.
Miller Lite and Equality Federation are continuing to host several town halls at bars across the state where an intersectional team of LGBTQ+ folks divide their candid, open experiences and thoughts on how bars can be made more inclusive.
Throughout the course of 2021, Miller Lite spent months listening directly to the singular intersectional needs of the LGBTQ+ community at bars across the country via town hall events, and we are excited to share what we’ve learned through our informational guidebook “Cultivating Inclu
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Well into the 1990s, the energetic, septuagenarian lgbtq+ organizer Morris Kight vehemently opposed any suggestion that the Coors beer boycott, first launched in the late 1950s by unionized brewery workers and later taken up by Chicano, Black, and LGBT activists, was over. For nearly four decades, Kight and other activists had joined in a coalition to oppose the Colorado-based Coors Brewing Business, alleging anti-unionism and employment discrimination against people of dye, gay men, and lesbians. The boycott also targeted the Coors family’s deep-pocketed support for right-wing, conservative politics.
In 1997, Kight and fellow boycott supporters worried that the Coors Brewing Company was successfully buying off gay and queer woman organizations in an effort to finish the boycott. Since the late 1980s, the company’s marketing and community relations teams had sought to mollify many of its critics through philanthropic assist. Between 1988 and 1990 alone, Coors and its distributors donated to almost twenty AIDS walks, benefit concerts, or organizations.
Coors supplemented these outreach efforts with public gestures towards equality