Country music star Garth Brooks is making a big move once again to combat gender discrimination in his own special way.
Amid the recent Bud Light controversy that involved transgender personality Dylan Mulvaney, Garth Brooks is stepping up to address some issues surrounding his new bar that could possibly impact its sales and further divide country music fans even more.
Garth Brooks Bud Light Controversy
In a new interview on Billboard Country Live, Garth Brooks opened up about his new business venture, "Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk," a bar on Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee.
Garth's comments seemed to allude to the issue surrounding Bud Light, some country artists, and Dylan Mulvaney.
For those who do not know, Bud Light recruited transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign that saw the famous beer company giving Mulvaney a special commemorative bottle. Country music star Kid Rock and Travis Tritt saw the move by the company as distasteful, which led them to call a boycott on the brand.
Rock and Tritt belong to the sizable part of country music providers and consumers that are right-leaning, conservative and Republican supporters who despise transgender people. Most notably, Tennesee, the hotbed for country music, is also the focal point of anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ policies in the country.
According to Brooks, he wanted his business to be a place that people feel safe to be in, similar to a place where people have "manners" and "like one another."
"And yes, we're going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It's not our decision to make. Our thing is this: if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you're an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway," he alluded to the issue.
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Garth Brooks Allyship to the LGBTQ Community
As of this writing, Brooks has not elaborated more on his decision to serve "every brand of beer" in his restaurant.
Whether it is motivated politically or by his beliefs, Brooks has been an advocate and a fighter against homophobia, a rare conviction for someone in the country music genre.
According to Variety, in 1992, Brooks released the song "We Shall Be Free," condemning racism and homophobia to express his solidarity with the marginalized sector.
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