HRC boots Anheuser-Busch from its top LGBTQ+ employer rating after bad Dylan Mulvaney response

The company left Mulvaney and trans people out to dry.

Bud Light’s new rainbow colored aluminum bottles
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The LGBTQ+ organization Human Rights Campaign (HRC) kicked Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch off the top of its corporate equality index (CEI), citing the company’s tepid response to the Dylan Mulvaney backlash.

“When we saw the company working with Dylan, that was a good sign. It was a sign of inclusion,” HRC senior vice president of programs, research, and training Jay Brown told CNN. “What we were really disturbed by was the company’s reaction once the backlash started happening.”

On April 1, Mulvaney posted a 50-second video to Instagram showing off some custom Bud Light cans with her face on them, a part of a brand partnership with the beer company.

Since then, conservatives posted videos as they dumped out Bud Light beer and shot up cases of Bud Light with semiautomatic rifles. Elected Republicans claimed that Mulvaney was a pedophile (without any evidence at all) and said 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.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) opened a probe into the brand partnership, alleging it violated advertising rules because people under the legal drinking age might have seen the beer can video.

But Anheuser-Busch’s weak response to the backlash led to anger among LGBTQ+ people as well. The company released a statement in April saying that it…

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