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Coors Light - Enjoy Gay Pride Week

Company: Coors Brewing Co.
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Brand: Coors Light
Ad Title: Enjoy Gay Pride Week
Business Category: Alcoholic Beverages
Media Outlets: Print
Country: United States
Region: North America, US Regional
Agency: unknown
Year: 2000
Target: Gays
Company: Coors Brewing Co.
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Brand: Coors Light
Ad Title: Enjoy Gay Pride Week
Business Category: Alcoholic Beverages
Media Outlets: Print
Country: United States
Region: North America, US Regional
Agency: unknown
Year: 2000
Target: Gays
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Coors, the US's third-largest brewer, has been advertising in gay publications since the 1980's, but the year 2000 marked its largest-ever outlay for gay-specific ads, said Mary Cheney, then corporate relations manager for gays and lesbians at Coors. She did not give specific figures, but said ad spending to gays alone increased 20% by the end of 2000.

Beer marketers in 1999 spent about $1.5 million advertising in national and local gay publications, according to Rivendell Marketing in New Jersey.

Beer companies are well represented in The Commercial Closet, largely due to an effort in the mid-1990s to pull away from the industry's longterm sexist advertising themes that objectified women. Such commercials were summed up by the Swedish Bikini Team ads from Stroh Brewing Co. for Old Milwaukee. Looking for new material to mine, brewers began extensively playing with gay and transgender themes in their advertising. However, because beer drinkers are stereotypically macho, the tone of many of the ads were more negative.

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Rob , Oakland
Coors wants our money but the Coors family continues to fund right-wing bigots. Heritage Foundation, Promise Keepers and others all get Coors money. Don't buy it!

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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors beer
Country: United States
Region: North America
Year: 2002


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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
Country: United States
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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
Country: United States
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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
Country: United States
Region: North America
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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
Country: United States
Region: North America
Year: 2006


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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
Country: United States
Region: North America
Year: 2005


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Company: Coors Brewing Co.
Brand: Coors Light
Country: United States
Region: North America
Year: 2005


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