The Stoli brand, he wrote, has no ties to the Russian government and is privately owned by SPI Group, headquartered in Luxembourg. “Stolichnaya Vodka has always been, and continues to be a fervent supporter and friend to the LGBT community,” Val Mendeleev wrote in the letter. The CEO of the SPI Group, which owns the Stolichnaya Vodka brand, responded to the boycott in an open letter “to the LGBT community” on Thursday. “Either the lives of gay and lesbian people in Russia mean something, or they don’t. ![]() “I’m hopeful people will talk about this,” Johnston said. The spaces on the bar where Stoli vodka bottles would sit remain empty so people will ask what used to be there, he said. Sidetrack-in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, an LGBT hub–stopped selling Stoli earlier this week, Johnston said. ![]() “Consumer action, for a long time, has been a part of any activism,” Art Johnston, the co-owner of the gay bar Sidetrack Chicago, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
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