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Earlier this week, activists gathered at the Stonewall Inn—the Greenwich Village bar known for its critical role in the LGBTQ+ rights movement—to pour a bunch of beer out onto the pavement.
These pour-outs weren’t tributes to lost friends, though. Instead, the activists were emptying Stonewall’s inventory of everything belonging to beer giant Anheuser-Busch—popular brews like Bud Light and Stella Artois, which do quite well at the bar, said co-owner Stacy Lentz.
But after learning of the contributions that Anheuser-Busch made to the lawmakers behind some of the more than 200 anti-trans bills passed in state legislatures this year, Lentz said they couldn’t, in good conscience, sell the beer during Pride
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