Anheuser-Busch parent company AB InBev is optimistic about its future, despite calls for a Bud Light boycott following a marketing partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. While Bud Light volume declined in the U.S. over the first three weeks of April following the uproar, the dip represented just 1% of overall global volumes for the period. However, this raises the question of how effective are boycotts like the one Bud Light faces.
It can be difficult to make a boycott eat into long-term sales. Boycotts on or by non-profit organizations also fail to have the adverse effect in a longer time frame. We can consider boycotts by Equality Florida calling for no travel to Florida work.
Has it really stopped the community from traveling to the state?
Has Disney vs DeSantis battle stopped the LGBTQ+ community and others from watching Disney content? Despite anti-LGBTQ+ laws and discrimination, Florida still is the Gayest state in America. LGBTQ+ allies are everywhere and still strong, specifically, Tampa’s gay mayor, Fort Lauderdale’s gay mayor, Visit Lauderdale’s Richard Gray (It is the largest LGBTQ tourism organization in the world), Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau’s Dan Rios (2nd largest LGBTQ+ tourism organization in America), and even Disney with more LGBTQ+ employees than any business in the world.
