New Beer Brands Gay Beer and Queer Brewg Aim to Support Queer Communi - Eater

Contents:

• BEER IS SO GAY
• THE SEARCH FOR THE GAYT BEER IN AMERI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE RULTS ARE IN
• ‘BEER IS FOR EVERYBODY. NO EXCEPTNS’: BREWERY INTRODUC ‘EVEN GAYER’ LIGHT BEER, PROCEEDS GOG TO LGBTQ+ CHARY
• GAY BEER
• MASSACHETTS’ GAYT BREWERY MAK DAMN GOOD BEER
• SUPER GAY HORSE
• WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
• NEXT ROUND: SUPERGAY SPIRS IS BRGG JOY TO CRAFT DISTILLG

BEER IS SO GAY

Ask what mak a gay bar gay and the answers will vary. What you’ll rarely hear, though, is that a gay bar is a gay bar bee of the drks. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg.

THE SEARCH FOR THE GAYT BEER IN AMERI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE RULTS ARE IN

Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer.

Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017. The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals.

‘BEER IS FOR EVERYBODY. NO EXCEPTNS’: BREWERY INTRODUC ‘EVEN GAYER’ LIGHT BEER, PROCEEDS GOG TO LGBTQ+ CHARY

Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv.

GAY BEER

But of urse, had to be gay. Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny. They began llg Gay Beer while velopg the product and jt stuck.

Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn. Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters.

(Big Gay Ice Cream has ed the same tactic. “A lot of bars are not wantg to say they’re lbian bars, they’re wantg to say they’re queer bars — but a lot of gay male bars keep sayg they’re gay male bars, ” she says.

MASSACHETTS’ GAYT BREWERY MAK DAMN GOOD BEER

From a sign standpot, Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg all wanted to reference the cultur they grew om. For Moore and Pazmo, that meant an “Amerina whout the Amerin flag” sign, somethg that reflected the athetics of Juli’ Bar, and the gay men of the ’60s who participated the “sip ” protts. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are n by queer people and support queer people year-round.

Buyg Gay Beer at the grocery store signals to everyone who se you that you’re the kd of person who buys Gay Beer. Gay Beer may be explicly queer, but “gay” still feel more fortable on the tongue to a non-queer person than “dyke” or “queer. Meanwhile, Gay Beer will soon be available 32 stat through e-merce.

SUPER GAY HORSE

A brand like Gay Beer gets to be the Trojan horse of the queer beer agenda.

WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?

Wae says, “Many were pleased to see the lnch of somethg actively tryg to make change wh a stagnant and homogeno dtry, and queer and trans folk were pleased to see somethg that reprented them a way that hadn’t been done before. The Uned Stat of Ameri is real turmoil about the gayt beer the untry and 's hard to blame them.

NEXT ROUND: SUPERGAY SPIRS IS BRGG JOY TO CRAFT DISTILLG

Unls you are a big ole gay ball, pour out! Image havg to study an anizatnal chart so that you n verify that the beer you want to drk isn't tied to another drk that you dont want to drk but you aren't sure if you should drk bee if you do, the fellas will ridicule you as if you paid for Twter if said drk ed turns out to be gay-beer adjacent. Will they be gay enough?

If I know this untry s current ndn, you're damn right will be gay enough. It's about to get super gay up here. That's pretty gay.