Greek Gods, Twinks, and This Bud's for You

Okay, guys, maybe you don't yet know the Greek myth of Ganymede, but we'll briefly go over it.

Ganymede was this young twink way back in those "Grecian" times. He was unbelievably beautiful, with a nice body and bubble-butt to boot.

Ganymede's beauty was such that one day, Zeus noticed it, and instantly fell in love with the young man. Zeus wooed and flirted, and tried every line in the book, but Ganymede wasn't biting (holding out for the Rolex, no doubt). Well, it came to the point that Zeus had enough playing around, he was a god after all, and so swept down in the form of an eagle, and snatched the lad up, brought him back to Mt. Olympus, and made him water bearer to the gods; read poolboy.

How homoerotic can you get, right? Well, not enough for Anheuser-Busch, it would seem. In the early years of the last century, the beer company used the story of Ganymede and Zeus to market Budweiser beer. If you look at the ad above, you'll see that Ganymede is holding a nice cold bottle of Budweiser! As the Anheuser-Busch logo is that of an eagle, it's no surprise they'd use the story, but the fact that it's based on the homoerotic story of a male god falling in love with a male human, that does come as a surprise.

As a side note, and not to give A-B a free plug, but if you look at most LGBT events throughout the US, you'll see Bud Light as a sponsor, so maybe they've always been after the gay market, even way back when.