In fact, if someone is making you accompany them to a gay-owned brewery and exclusively buy their beers, you should inform the police, because you may have actually been kidnapped and are just now finding out. No one's forcing their "social BS" on you. No one's making you do it (just as no one made you read the article). This is about listening and enlightenment, and if you choose to support people because of their background and struggles - whether it's minority owners in brewing, female ownership in brewing (a la Pink Boots and others), or supporting the LGBTQ community - that's a choice.
Some people refuse to buy Bourbon County because of the AB-InBev purchase that's their choice, too, while others are free to enjoy the beer regardless of who made it. No one is making you buy LGBTQ beer, or to avoid beer with over-sexualized (and hetero-normative) imaging and branding. Remember: respecting "who" made the beer isn't forcing anyone else to change their spending habits.
You don't like it, look away and buy something else. So, I look at this as the same way I look at Hobby Lobby. That is something straight people or white people or whatever people have to realize as well. People have to understand that the market has been severely underserving or under-marketing to "minorities" until fairly recently, which is why the gay beer or black beer or whatever, is so cool. Sorry.On the other hand, for all the homophobic, xenophobic, racist knuckle-draggers out there who fear change, and think gay and minority rights are being shoved in your face? Well, yeah, they are, and about damn time. I don't feel the need to make an uproar, but that's just me, and I know for all the SJW's out there, this will be an unpopular answer. Now, I am a firm believer that a business should be able to market to whomever they like without backlash or repercussion. It would be the same thing if they tried to market a "white" beer. SO, is it cool they are making beer marketing towards gay people? Hell yeah, but.I do agree with the comment that if they tried to market a beer as "heterosexual", people would flip a shit. Even though I am not your "stereotypical" gay person, I still go to gay pride events, I go to gay clubs and bars, even gay campgrounds, because sometimes it's just nice to be around other people like yourself. I also make my own beer, have been to over 1,000 breweries across the USA, listen to heavy metal, and have lots of tattoos of skulls.
As a gay man, I couldn't care less who a beer is made by or marketed to.