Mark Harmon was so smokin' hot back then it was nearly enough to make me overlook the anti-gay ways of the Coors Brewing Company.
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Coors Brewing Company was one of the first to offer benefits to "partners". Coors has always been a sponsor of gay events in Colorado for 20 or more years. Bill Coors was a right wing nut job, but his sons and nephews who took over the co.were extremely progressive, albeit Republican. And lest we forget one of the prominent leaders of Denver Gay Events is, in fact, a agy member of that Coors family. Let's stop living in the 60's and 70's, shall we?
That's what their PR department wants you to believe (and, yes, there have been improvements). Still, I think it's for every consumer to decide.
Myth: The Coors Company has changed, so the boycott is no longer necessary.
Fact: The Coors family still supports extreme right wing anti-gay groups and politicians, through their foundations and individual Coors family members who profit from the brewery. Coors wants lesbians and gay men to buy their beer so they can use the profits to fund right wing attacks on our civil rights.
Myth: Coors is a model of pro-gay workplace practices and shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of a few ultraconservative family members.
Fact: In 1977 lesbian/gay businesses joined an AFL-CIO boycott of Coors, citing Coors' history of support for attacks on gay rights. Sales of Coors beer plummeted in the gay community. In response, in 1978 Coors adopted language against discrimination on account of sexual orientation in employment, and has offered small sums of money to lesbian/gay organizations in order to recover beer sales and improve Coors' public image. But Coors has never stopped funding right-wing attacks on gay rights.
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um hello? pic with harmon with mustache please?
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