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Article: COORS BOYCOTT REVIVED CANDIDATE'S STANCE HAS GAYS PROTESTING BREWERY.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2004
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Byline: Gwen Florio, Rocky Mountain News
A national Coors beer boycott, nearly comatose except in some gay bars in California, has been resuscitated by the Senate campaign of Pete Coors.
"Every time they (the campaign) make a move, it gains new energy," said Howard Wallace of San Francisco, who started the boycott in 1974 with gay politician Harvey Milk.
The boycott began as a protest of the Coors Brewing Co.'s anti-union position, and quickly grew to include gay outrage over company lie-detector tests that asked whether prospective employees were homosexual.
The boycott faded after the company reversed itself in 1995 and began ...