I missed a few Space Crowd Saturdays, so here's a catchup post featuring three sleazy cyberpunk bars: Barclay Shaw's 1990 cover art for Illegal Alien, by James Luceno; James Warhola's 1987 cover art for Tales from the Spaceport Bar, edited by Darrell Schweitzer and George H. Scithers; and an 80s-era Bud Light promo poster by Gary Ruddell.
Two of these three artworks appear to have references to the Alien franchise in them, marking another insight into the Space Crowd trope: Artists occasionally use the format to sneak in references and in-jokes. (Check my alt text for more info on that)
about target pulling some pride merch in some southern stores after their employees were threatened... do you think they should have kept all the pride stuff up?
they should have kept everything up. they should have painted the entire store in rainbow. same goes for bud light, they should have doubled down and made all the cans rainbow. if you're gonna be with us, either be with us or gtfo.
you know how when you come out to your parents and they give you tepid acceptance, but the minute a friend or other bigoty family member comes over and suddenly you need to keep your queerness to yourself? it's kinda like that. like. either stand with us like an actual ally or quit pretending to support us.
target pulling merch, hiding merch, removing all of their signage... all that's gonna do is teach fascists that they can get their way if they yell enough. (this also doesn't get into the waste of materials and resources of pulling these items and then just chucking them into the garbage instead of giving them out to be used)
bud light placing marketing employees "on leave" also teaches the same lesson. if you scream enough, if you threaten to bomb places, they will cave.
any company that is going to act like they support queer people should have an inherent understanding that it comes with a risk. the fact that these companies want our money but refuse to stand with us against the fascists just shows that they are only on our side so long as it is profitable. it's taking the mask off of corporate pride and showing the actual truth the lies beneath.
actual allies don't run away the second things get difficult. being an actual ally comes with risks. anyone claiming to be an ally that runs away the second anything remotely sketchy happens is not an actual ally.
and that's doubly so for corporations. i feel bad for all of the queer folks within target, bud light and others that worked so hard to actually make shit happen to only get told "actually, no, fuck you" because of fascists.
Another day, another one-sided battle in the culture war.
This time, it’s transphobic right-wingers versus Budweiser, a beer brand known less for its great taste than for being more widely available than clean tap water in America. The issue? The brand partnered with trans actor and activist Dylan Mulvaney, who has documented her transition in a viral “Days of Girlhood” TikTok series. This past weekend, she posted a video in which she was jokingly clueless about March Madness and revealed that she’d received a special Bud Light with her face on it — to celebrate Day 365, one full year since her journey began. Again, this was a single beer can with Mulvaney’s likeness on it, and it didn’t even appear on the grid: You had to look at her Instagram stories to see it.
Madman destroys Busch Light beer believing it is pro-trans Bud
IntoMore reports on the MAGA maniac who destroyed a lot of cans of Busch Light beer, mistaking it for Bud Light.
Henry Giardina writes:
It’s been over a week since Dylan Mulvaney appeared in a promotional ad for Bud Light, and “anti-woke” crusaders are still upset about it. They’re so upset that they’ve started taking it out on the wrong beer brand.
At least that’s what happened to one man after throwing a total hissy fit in the supermarket. Unluckily for him, he got “Busch Light” confused with Bud Light, because attention to detail is not in the right-wing wheelhouse.