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About a hundred people from the LGBTQ and labor communities gathered in San Francisco s Castro district to kick off Pride weekend June 25 by honoring straight ally Allan Baird a lifelong neighborhood resident who was instrumental to the cause of queer equality in unions.
In 1973, Baird took charge of a union strike against Bay Area distributors, including the Coors Brewing Company. Baird reached out to his neighbor, gay future Supervisor Harvey Milk, to build a coalition. Coors also had a 178-question employment application form, as Nancy Wohlforth explained in 2017 on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters website. One question demanded: Are you a homosexual? If you answered yes, that terminated your application, she stated. Another demanded Are you pro-union? If you answered yes, that terminated you, too.