Bud Light and Disney: How Corporate LGBTQ ‘Allies’ Harm Progress
This story is about one ‘ally’ donating heavily to Republicans while another ‘ally’ hamstrings efforts to impose economic consequences on Florida
TLDR: Disney short-circuited a strategy of economic consequences for Florida by proposing a plan many LGBTQ organizations felt obligated (by gratitude) to go along with. Budweiser USA, among other problematic practices, is infamous for contributing to the most conservative political candidates.
Are you LGBTQ or an ally? What do you think about giant corporate allies?If you follow queer news or social media, you’ve seen dozens of recent stories praising Budweiser USA and Disney for selfless acts of allyship to LGBTQ people and communities. If you don’t dig deep under the headlines, you might see those two corporations as heroic and deserving of your gratitude and support. Well, you aren’t entirely wrong, but I bet you lack some critical facts that would temper your views.
Most recent mainstream and even queer-press coverage fails to acknowledge serious challenges corporate allyship presents, or how such allyship can turn into Faustian bargains.
