mushroomsugar:hollywoodisgay:theroguefeminist:shortformblog:prweek:Guinness pulled its sponsorship o
mushroomsugar:hollywoodisgay:theroguefeminist:shortformblog:prweek:Guinness pulled its sponsorship of New York City’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade because of organizers’ longstanding ban against gay and lesbian groups marching openly. Heineken also dropped its sponsorship due to the dispute, and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio will become the first mayor in decades to sit out the parade. In Boston, Sam Adams pulled its sponsorship of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday because of a similar ban against LGBT marchers, and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh declined to participate.When you’ve lost the beer companies, clearly you’re doing something wrong.yeah except they just want to profit off of our ridiculous levels of alcoholism - they didn’t give a fuck until lgbt+ organizations threatened to boycott them: http://www.autostraddle.com/despite-luck-of-the-irish-guinness-heineken-and-sam-adams-drop-sponsorship-of-anti-lgbt-st-patricks-parades-228936/The community is the one getting shit doneAlcohol may be a very abusive friend to many of us, but the high-level cishets (and their collaborators) selling it care about us even less than the dangerous inanimate liquid does. Please everyone, don’t mistake this for another reason to drink. -- source link