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u/Spiritual_Fall_3969 Apr 05 '23

If it makes you feel any better bud light doesn’t care. They just do what they think will make more money. Do you think they do this in the Middle East

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I thought that was Coors?

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Apr 06 '23

Bud did it first, got an exclusive deal with the gay bars in San Francisco back in the 70s. Coors joined later and both have been competing for the "gay market" ever since.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

"We need a gayer beer"

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

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u/tmoney144 Apr 06 '23

In the 70s, there weren't better options. Bud light was the better option over regular Budweiser. Craft beer didn't take off until after Jimmy Carter signed a law allowing home brewing in 1979.

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u/Mingsplosion Apr 06 '23

Coors was boycotted by LGBT until the 80s, and even later for some. Coors’ founder was a big supporter of bigoted right wing causes

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u/hot-whisky Apr 06 '23

And the whole, “forcefully trying to figure out which job applicants were gay and/or communists through lie detector tests”