At least 5 Chicago LGBTQ+ bars have dropped Anheuser-Busch for weak statements about transphobia

Mark Robertson dumping out a Bud Light
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Some LGBTQ+ bars in Chicago are dropping Anheuser-Busch products, angry that the company isn’t standing by its work with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

“Unlike what we would expect from Anheuser-Busch, that had a history of supporting LGBTQ events and programming, sponsoring things like pride in Chicago, they chose to side with hate,” said Mark Robertson of 2Bears Tavern Uptown. He is the co-owner of four LGBTQ+ bars in Chicago.

He was referring to the very weak statements Anheuser-Busch has made about the month of rightwing outrage over a sponsored Instagram video Mulvaney made for Bud Light.

On April 1, Mulvaney posted a 50-second video to Instagram with some custom Bud Light cans with her face on them. Over the next month, conservatives lost their minds, posting videos as they dumped out Bud Light cans and shot up cases of Bud Light with semiautomatic rifles. Elected Republicans claimed that Mulvaney was a pedophile (without any evidence at all) and that the global balance of power would be upset by Mulvaney’s Instagram video. Others said that they were boycotting Bud Lightoften switching to other LGBTQ+-friendly brands.

By the end of April, Bud Light’s parent company – Anheuser-Busch – had put out a statement saying that…

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