Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch are sponsoring at least three different upcoming Pride events despite backlash over the partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a social media influencer who identifies as transgender.
Bud Light is listed as a sponsor on the Cincinnati Pride Parade website. Planned Parenthood and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which medically transitions minors, are both also listed.
Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Missouri, where Anheuser-Busch is headquartered, the company is listed as the presenting sponsor of the St. Louis Pride Parade. A sponsorship packet explains that there are only four “presenting sponsor” slots available. The “Rainbow” sponsorship tier, located below the “presenting sponsor” tier, requires entities to pay $25,000.
Bud Light is also listed as a “Diamond Sponsor” of Stonewall Columbus, which organizes and hosts the annual Columbus, Ohio, Pride Parade. The “diamond” sponsorship tier requires companies to donate $20,000, a document from the organization specifies. The document also adds, “All Stonewall Columbus sponsors must affirm Stonewall’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies AND agree to donate no less than 8 hours of volunteer time during a calendar year.”
Anheuser-Busch was also listed as a premier sponsor for the San Francisco Pride Parade in 2022. The 2023 sponsors of the San Francisco Pride Parade have not yet been released.
Bud Light was listed as a sponsor of the Chicago Pride Parade on a page that has since been scrubbed. Bud Light boasted that “we have a clear role to play in bringing real change and creating an inclusive and equitable world where we cherish and celebrate one another.”
Corona and Corona Hard Seltzer, products of Anheuser-Busch, are listed as sponsors of the upcoming Los Angeles Pride Parade.
Cutwater Spirits, another Anheuser-Busch product, is listed as a sponsor of the 2023 Chicago Pride Fest, which will occur one week before the Chicago Pride Parade.
The Pride Fest is a two-day festival that will include a “best of Chicago drag performance” and “a Youth Pride Space for teens.” Children as young as 12 will be allowed to attend the “youth pride space.”
Bud Light sales have declined since its partnership with Mulvaney was revealed, and the company is even offering to buy back expiring cases of Bud Light from retailers. The controversy began when the company gave Mulvaney Bud Light cans with his face on them.
Anson Frericks, the former president of sales and distribution of Anheuser-Busch, offered his prediction for the company’s future in an interview with The Daily Wire, saying that he expects a “long, hot, dry summer for Anheuser-Busch.”
I’m a gay man who is sick and fed up with all this LGBTQ and transgender propaganda being forced on America and used in schools to indoctrinate our children. I am perfectly capable of living my lifestyle without forces of the left using it to brainwash, mold, bait for votes. Children grades K-3 are too young to be taught about sex changes and cross dressing. I live my life, others live theirs. There is no need for me to flaunt and advertise my orientation.
What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Hey AB, just how insane are you???
First of all, anyone in a leadership role in ANY company should look at the data of users and know who their Target Market is. If you don’t know this little bit of info your not leadership material. Now, with THAT said, when was the last time you saw a Drag queen ordering a BEER let alone a Bud Lite?
Or a young under aged trans kid ordering a Bud Lite? N-E-V-E-R!!!! All while the Millions upon Millions of NORMAL Beer drinkers… Nascar, Sports fans of all kinds.. yeah THEY are the Target Market..Not trannies and underage trans hopefulls. So WHY are they OK with loosing MIILIONS and failing their Share Holders losing them TONS of money in plumeting Share values? They would rather support Homosexuals and people confused about there own gender than to run a business.