Anheuser-Busch was targeted for 'going woke' with a recent ad partnership. The company's history with the LGBTQ community is far more complicated than that.
Anheuser-Busch and its products were the subjects of criticism by the LGBTQ community after the company's 2018 decision to honor its longstanding sponsorship of that year's FIFA World Cup in Russia amid international condemnation of recently passed anti-LGBTQ laws in the country that resulted in the death and imprisonment of dozens of LGBTQ people.after reports the company made tens of thousands of dollars in donations to lawmakers pushing anti-LGBTQ legislation.
"We really just want Anheuser-Busch to stop donating to lawmakers who are trying to legalize discrimination," Stacy Lentz, co-owner of New York City's famed LGBTQ bar, the Stonewall Inn, told the Associated Press at the time. At the time, the company claimed the brand supported those for public office whose policy positions and objectives"support investments in our communities, job creation, and industry growth."
"Together, with our brands, 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," it said in a statement.compiled by Accountable for Equality Action—an LGBTQ advocacy group—Anheuser-Busch has donated some $107,000 to state lawmakers who have supported anti-trans legislation since 2015.
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