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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• BLEEDG FOOLCOMIC BOOK NEWS, FILM REVIEWS AND GEEK-CULTURE AS WELL AS THE FARCE, FOLLY, AND FIAS SURROUNDG ALL! SKIP TO NTENTHOMENEWS + OPINIONSMOVIES/TV/STREAMINGCOMICS & BOOKSRPG & VIDEO-GAMESABOUT USSHOP SEARCH FOR: SEARCHAPPLE TV+ SAYS ‘FROG & TOAD’ ANIMATED SERI AFFIRMS PAIR’S ‘LGBTQ+ IN’ STAT AVI GREEN MAY 2, 2023             BACK THE 1970S, A CHILDREN’S THOR NAMED ARNOLD LOBEL PENNED 4 ILLTRATED BOOKS LLED FROG & TOAD, WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN ALLNS TO HIS OWN HOMOSEXUALY. NOW, THERE’S AN ANIMATED TV SHOW BEG PRODUCED ON APPLE TV-PL, AND  AN TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST, THE PRODUCER SAYS WILL NTA HOMOSEXUAL SUBTEXT: “EVERY SGLE PERSON ON OUR CREW THAT HAD A HAND THE SHOW—AS AN ARTIST, AS A WRER, AS A VOICE ACTOR—THEY ALL BROUGHT THEIR OWN VERSN OF FROG AND TOAD TO WHAT THEY DID,” HOEGEE SAYS. “IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT I ALLOW AS MUCH OF THAT ON THE SCREEN AS POSSIBLE.”THAT’S WHY HOEGEE FOUND IMPORTANT TO NSIR THE QUEER SUBTEXT OF THE FROG AND TOAD BOOKS. A “SIGNIFINT NUMBER” OF HIS ST AND CREW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+, HOEGEE SAYS, AND HE ASPIRED “TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE FELT THAT THEY WERE BEG HEARD AND THEIR NTRIBUTN—THEIR FROG AND TOAD—LIVED ON WHATEVER SHAPE THAT WAS.”“YOU N’T NY ,” HOEGEE SAYS. “IT IS PART OF THE BOOKS, ’S PART OF THE LEGACY.”THOUGH FROG AND TOAD ARE SIMPLY LLED “IENDS” THE SERI AND THE BOOKS, ARNOLD LOBEL ME OUT TO HIS FAY AS GAY 1974, AFTER THE BOOKS HAD BEEN PUBLISHED. IN A 2016 TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORKER, ADRIANNE LOBEL LLED THE BOOKS “THE BEGNG OF HIM G OUT.” OVER THE YEARS, FROG AND TOAD HAVE BEE GAY INS. THERE ARE SHIRTS THAT READ “FROG AND TOAD ARE GAY.” EVEN WHEN THIS SERI WAS ANNOUNCED, THEM WROTE AN ARTICLE HEADLED “EVERYONE’S FAVORE QUEER COUPLE, ‘FROG AND TOAD,’ ARE COMG TO TV.”“WHAT WE WANTED TO DO HERE IS CREATE A FAHFUL ADAPTATN OF THE BOOKS,” HOEGEE SAYS. “FOR PEOPLE, A LOT OF REARS OF A CERTA AGE, FROG AND TOAD AS CHARACTERS SEEN THROUGH A QUEER LENS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT TO THEM. WE N’T NY ANYONE THAT MEANG TO THEM, AS FAR AS THE CHARACTERS GO. IF THAT’S HOW YOU SEE THE CHARACTERS THE BOOK, ’S FAIR TO SAY THAT YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO SEE A SIAR VIEWPOT THE SHOW AS WELL.”PERCEIVE FROG AND TOAD HOWEVER YOU WANT, BUT HOEGEE SAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG IS THAT YOU UNRSTAND HOW MUCH THEY EPLY RE FOR ONE ANOTHER. IT DON’T MATTER IF THAT PASSN IS PLATONIC OR ROMANTIC, THE FACT THAT THEY’RE NEARLY SEPARABLE SHOULD TEACH ALL A B ABOUT PANNSHIP.“WHAT FROG AND TOAD SHOWS IS THAT THERE IS STILL THE ABILY TO HAVE A EP AND MEANGFUL AND LOVG IENDSHIP THAT TRANSCENDS EVERYTHG,” HOEGEE SAYS. “THIS IS A SHOW THAT CELEBRAT HOW TWO VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS N STILL FD A MON GROUND AND A RPECT AND APPRECIATN AND LOVE FOR EACH OTHER, THAT STILL ALLOWS THEM TO HAVE FUN TOGETHER AND BE SEPARABLE. OUR DIFFERENC SHOULDN’T DIVI , OUR DIFFERENC SHOULD BE THE THG THAT BRGS TOGETHER.” EVER NOTICE HOW NOBODY VERG NEWS LIKE THIS EVER DISCS WHETHER REARS OF “CERTA AG” N VIEW CERTA CREATNS THROUGH AN ETHNIC/NATNAL LENS (ISRAELI, ESTONIAN, ARMENIAN, PERVIAN, ETC)? IT JT SHOWS HOW SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS THE ONLY FORM OF INTY POLIC HOLLYWOOD TLY R ABOUT TODAY, AND JUDGG BY HOW MANY LGBT PRACTNERS ARE WORKG ON THIS SHOW, THEY’RE CLEARLY TENT ON MAKG THEIR OWN VANY PROJECT SOME WAY OR OTHER. THE GHG ATTU THE PRODUCER EMPLOYS IS UTTERLY EMBARRASSG AND HEAD-SHAKG. FROG AND TOAD - OFFICIAL TRAILERWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE AND AS FAR AS PERCEPTNS ARE NCERNED, BREBART NOT: LIKE SAME STREET‘S BERT AND ERNIE, THE ORIGAL FROG AND TOAD CHARACTERS OM ARNOLD LOBEL’S BOOKS HAVE BEE INS OF THE LGBTQ+ WORLD, EVEN THOUGH THE BOOKS DON’T NTA ANY REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY.ARNOLD LOBEL, WHO WAS GAY, NEVER DITED THAT THE CHARACTERS REPRENT A GAY UPLE. IN THE BOOKS, FROG AND TOAD ARE BT IENDS WHO EMBARK ON A SERI OF ADVENTUR, CLUDG FLYG A KE, DISVERG NATURE, AND SWIMMG. WHILE HE MAY NOT HAVE STATED DIRECTLY THEY WERE MEANT TO REPRENT A HOMOSEXUAL UPLE, I DID ONCE READ SOME STATEMENTS HE MA TO THE PRS THAT BOTH AMPHIBIANS WERE MEANT TO REFLECT SOME OF HIS OWN PERSONALY, AND THE PRODUCERS OF THIS NEW RTOON ARE DOUBTLS EXPLOG THAT AS JTIFITN FOR WHAT THEY’VE SET OUT TO DO. SO WHETHER ’S A “FAHFUL” ADAPTATN IS BATABLE, BUT DON’T BE SHOCKED IF THEY GO BEYOND MERE SUBTEXT THE FISHED PRODUCT. MY OWN FAY ONCE OWNED A PY OF FROG & TOAD, BUT LIKE UNTLS OTHERS AT THE TIME, HAD NO IA WHETHER WAS MEANT AS A STATEMENT BY SOMEBODY WHO TLY BELIEVED LIBERAL PROPAGANDA THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS A POSIVE ROLE MOL. FROG & TOAD ARE FRIENDS BY ARNOLD LOBEL | READ ALOUDWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHAT’S REALLY WEIRD, PENDG HOW YOU VIEW THIS, IS THAT HERE, LOBEL WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN, ANA KEMPLER, GAVE BIRTH TO A DGHTER AND SON, AND CLEARLY WAS PABLE OF LEADG A HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIP, YET SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, HE CID HE WANTED TO LEAD A HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE AND DUMPED THE LADY LIKE LD FFEE, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF THAT. SERLY, ’S JT NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE HE SET BY DOG SO. NOW, S LATER, SOME LEFTIST IOLOGU ARE BLATANTLY EXPLOG HIS WORK FOR THEIR VERY OWN AGENDAS. AND ’S A SHAME SAME STREET’S ERNIE & BERT FELL VICTIM TO THE SAME EXPLOATN ALONG WH THE WHOLE SHOW SELF ON PBS, WHICH HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO LGBT EXPLOATN RECENT YEARS. SOME OF THE BT CHILDREN’S TV PROGRAMS OF YTERYEAR HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY SECRATED AS A RULT. ORIGALLY PUBLISHED HERE. MORE TRENDG STORI:MARVEL COMICS' KGP IS NO LONGER REGNIZABLEHOW MARVEL FAILED JACK KIRBY & HOW OTHER CREATORS MISS THE POTTOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXTMARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROY'BLUE BEETLE' COMICS DERVED BETTER THAN ANGEL MANUEL SOTO'S NEW FILMLOOKG BACK AT THE COMICS BOOM & BT THE 1990'SDISNEY ANIMATORS PROPERLY DEFEND 'PROBLEMATIC' CLASSICS 'SNOW WHE' & 'SONG OF THE SOUTH'            ANA KEMPLERAPPLE TVARNOLD LOBELAVI GREENFROG & TOADFROG AND TOADPBSROB HOEGEESAME STREETBLOGS AVI GREEN AVI GREEN WAS BORN PENNSYLVANIA 1974, AND MOVED TO ISRAEL 1983. HE ENJOYED READG ICS WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, THE FIRST BEG FANTASTIC FOUR. HE MATAS A STRONG BELIEF THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE AND ACCURACY OF FACTS. HE NSIRS HIMSELF A NSERVATIVE-STYLE VERSN OF CLARK KENT. FOLLOW HIM ON HIS BLOG AT FOUR COLOR MEDIA MONOR OR ON TWTER AT @AVIGREEN1RELATED POSTS MARVEL COMICS’ KGP IS NO LONGER REGNIZABLE ON SUPERHERO MOVI AND THE ETHICS OF “ETHNO-BENDG” TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT MARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROY TOXIC MASCULY TUDAY: ‘DEAD MAN’S SHO’ (2004)JUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St Louis Rams selected him 2021, Carl Nassib, then wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

BLEEDG FOOLCOMIC BOOK NEWS, FILM REVIEWS AND GEEK-CULTURE AS WELL AS THE FARCE, FOLLY, AND FIAS SURROUNDG ALL! SKIP TO NTENTHOMENEWS + OPINIONSMOVIES/TV/STREAMINGCOMICS & BOOKSRPG & VIDEO-GAMESABOUT USSHOP SEARCH FOR: SEARCHAPPLE TV+ SAYS ‘FROG & TOAD’ ANIMATED SERI AFFIRMS PAIR’S ‘LGBTQ+ IN’ STAT AVI GREEN MAY 2, 2023             BACK THE 1970S, A CHILDREN’S THOR NAMED ARNOLD LOBEL PENNED 4 ILLTRATED BOOKS LLED FROG & TOAD, WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN ALLNS TO HIS OWN HOMOSEXUALY. NOW, THERE’S AN ANIMATED TV SHOW BEG PRODUCED ON APPLE TV-PL, AND  AN TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST, THE PRODUCER SAYS WILL NTA HOMOSEXUAL SUBTEXT: “EVERY SGLE PERSON ON OUR CREW THAT HAD A HAND THE SHOW—AS AN ARTIST, AS A WRER, AS A VOICE ACTOR—THEY ALL BROUGHT THEIR OWN VERSN OF FROG AND TOAD TO WHAT THEY DID,” HOEGEE SAYS. “IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT I ALLOW AS MUCH OF THAT ON THE SCREEN AS POSSIBLE.”THAT’S WHY HOEGEE FOUND IMPORTANT TO NSIR THE QUEER SUBTEXT OF THE FROG AND TOAD BOOKS. A “SIGNIFINT NUMBER” OF HIS ST AND CREW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+, HOEGEE SAYS, AND HE ASPIRED “TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE FELT THAT THEY WERE BEG HEARD AND THEIR NTRIBUTN—THEIR FROG AND TOAD—LIVED ON WHATEVER SHAPE THAT WAS.”“YOU N’T NY ,” HOEGEE SAYS. “IT IS PART OF THE BOOKS, ’S PART OF THE LEGACY.”THOUGH FROG AND TOAD ARE SIMPLY LLED “IENDS” THE SERI AND THE BOOKS, ARNOLD LOBEL ME OUT TO HIS FAY AS GAY 1974, AFTER THE BOOKS HAD BEEN PUBLISHED. IN A 2016 TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORKER, ADRIANNE LOBEL LLED THE BOOKS “THE BEGNG OF HIM G OUT.” OVER THE YEARS, FROG AND TOAD HAVE BEE GAY INS. THERE ARE SHIRTS THAT READ “FROG AND TOAD ARE GAY.” EVEN WHEN THIS SERI WAS ANNOUNCED, THEM WROTE AN ARTICLE HEADLED “EVERYONE’S FAVORE QUEER COUPLE, ‘FROG AND TOAD,’ ARE COMG TO TV.”“WHAT WE WANTED TO DO HERE IS CREATE A FAHFUL ADAPTATN OF THE BOOKS,” HOEGEE SAYS. “FOR PEOPLE, A LOT OF REARS OF A CERTA AGE, FROG AND TOAD AS CHARACTERS SEEN THROUGH A QUEER LENS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT TO THEM. WE N’T NY ANYONE THAT MEANG TO THEM, AS FAR AS THE CHARACTERS GO. IF THAT’S HOW YOU SEE THE CHARACTERS THE BOOK, ’S FAIR TO SAY THAT YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO SEE A SIAR VIEWPOT THE SHOW AS WELL.”PERCEIVE FROG AND TOAD HOWEVER YOU WANT, BUT HOEGEE SAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG IS THAT YOU UNRSTAND HOW MUCH THEY EPLY RE FOR ONE ANOTHER. IT DON’T MATTER IF THAT PASSN IS PLATONIC OR ROMANTIC, THE FACT THAT THEY’RE NEARLY SEPARABLE SHOULD TEACH ALL A B ABOUT PANNSHIP.“WHAT FROG AND TOAD SHOWS IS THAT THERE IS STILL THE ABILY TO HAVE A EP AND MEANGFUL AND LOVG IENDSHIP THAT TRANSCENDS EVERYTHG,” HOEGEE SAYS. “THIS IS A SHOW THAT CELEBRAT HOW TWO VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS N STILL FD A MON GROUND AND A RPECT AND APPRECIATN AND LOVE FOR EACH OTHER, THAT STILL ALLOWS THEM TO HAVE FUN TOGETHER AND BE SEPARABLE. OUR DIFFERENC SHOULDN’T DIVI , OUR DIFFERENC SHOULD BE THE THG THAT BRGS TOGETHER.” EVER NOTICE HOW NOBODY VERG NEWS LIKE THIS EVER DISCS WHETHER REARS OF “CERTA AG” N VIEW CERTA CREATNS THROUGH AN ETHNIC/NATNAL LENS (ISRAELI, ESTONIAN, ARMENIAN, PERVIAN, ETC)? IT JT SHOWS HOW SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS THE ONLY FORM OF INTY POLIC HOLLYWOOD TLY R ABOUT TODAY, AND JUDGG BY HOW MANY LGBT PRACTNERS ARE WORKG ON THIS SHOW, THEY’RE CLEARLY TENT ON MAKG THEIR OWN VANY PROJECT SOME WAY OR OTHER. THE GHG ATTU THE PRODUCER EMPLOYS IS UTTERLY EMBARRASSG AND HEAD-SHAKG. FROG AND TOAD - OFFICIAL TRAILERWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE AND AS FAR AS PERCEPTNS ARE NCERNED, BREBART NOT: LIKE SAME STREET‘S BERT AND ERNIE, THE ORIGAL FROG AND TOAD CHARACTERS OM ARNOLD LOBEL’S BOOKS HAVE BEE INS OF THE LGBTQ+ WORLD, EVEN THOUGH THE BOOKS DON’T NTA ANY REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY.ARNOLD LOBEL, WHO WAS GAY, NEVER DITED THAT THE CHARACTERS REPRENT A GAY UPLE. IN THE BOOKS, FROG AND TOAD ARE BT IENDS WHO EMBARK ON A SERI OF ADVENTUR, CLUDG FLYG A KE, DISVERG NATURE, AND SWIMMG. WHILE HE MAY NOT HAVE STATED DIRECTLY THEY WERE MEANT TO REPRENT A HOMOSEXUAL UPLE, I DID ONCE READ SOME STATEMENTS HE MA TO THE PRS THAT BOTH AMPHIBIANS WERE MEANT TO REFLECT SOME OF HIS OWN PERSONALY, AND THE PRODUCERS OF THIS NEW RTOON ARE DOUBTLS EXPLOG THAT AS JTIFITN FOR WHAT THEY’VE SET OUT TO DO. SO WHETHER ’S A “FAHFUL” ADAPTATN IS BATABLE, BUT DON’T BE SHOCKED IF THEY GO BEYOND MERE SUBTEXT THE FISHED PRODUCT. MY OWN FAY ONCE OWNED A PY OF FROG & TOAD, BUT LIKE UNTLS OTHERS AT THE TIME, HAD NO IA WHETHER WAS MEANT AS A STATEMENT BY SOMEBODY WHO TLY BELIEVED LIBERAL PROPAGANDA THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS A POSIVE ROLE MOL. FROG & TOAD ARE FRIENDS BY ARNOLD LOBEL | READ ALOUDWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHAT’S REALLY WEIRD, PENDG HOW YOU VIEW THIS, IS THAT HERE, LOBEL WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN, ANA KEMPLER, GAVE BIRTH TO A DGHTER AND SON, AND CLEARLY WAS PABLE OF LEADG A HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIP, YET SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, HE CID HE WANTED TO LEAD A HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE AND DUMPED THE LADY LIKE LD FFEE, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF THAT. SERLY, ’S JT NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE HE SET BY DOG SO. NOW, S LATER, SOME LEFTIST IOLOGU ARE BLATANTLY EXPLOG HIS WORK FOR THEIR VERY OWN AGENDAS. AND ’S A SHAME SAME STREET’S ERNIE & BERT FELL VICTIM TO THE SAME EXPLOATN ALONG WH THE WHOLE SHOW SELF ON PBS, WHICH HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO LGBT EXPLOATN RECENT YEARS. SOME OF THE BT CHILDREN’S TV PROGRAMS OF YTERYEAR HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY SECRATED AS A RULT. ORIGALLY PUBLISHED HERE. MORE TRENDG STORI:MARVEL COMICS' KGP IS NO LONGER REGNIZABLEHOW MARVEL FAILED JACK KIRBY & HOW OTHER CREATORS MISS THE POTTOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXTMARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROY'BLUE BEETLE' COMICS DERVED BETTER THAN ANGEL MANUEL SOTO'S NEW FILMLOOKG BACK AT THE COMICS BOOM & BT THE 1990'SDISNEY ANIMATORS PROPERLY DEFEND 'PROBLEMATIC' CLASSICS 'SNOW WHE' & 'SONG OF THE SOUTH'            ANA KEMPLERAPPLE TVARNOLD LOBELAVI GREENFROG & TOADFROG AND TOADPBSROB HOEGEESAME STREETBLOGS AVI GREEN AVI GREEN WAS BORN PENNSYLVANIA 1974, AND MOVED TO ISRAEL 1983. HE ENJOYED READG ICS WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, THE FIRST BEG FANTASTIC FOUR. HE MATAS A STRONG BELIEF THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE AND ACCURACY OF FACTS. HE NSIRS HIMSELF A NSERVATIVE-STYLE VERSN OF CLARK KENT. FOLLOW HIM ON HIS BLOG AT FOUR COLOR MEDIA MONOR OR ON TWTER AT @AVIGREEN1RELATED POSTS MARVEL COMICS’ KGP IS NO LONGER REGNIZABLE ON SUPERHERO MOVI AND THE ETHICS OF “ETHNO-BENDG” TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT MARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROY TOXIC MASCULY TUDAY: ‘DEAD MAN’S SHO’ (2004)JUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

Back the 1970s, a children’s thor named Arnold Lobel penned 4 illtrated books lled Frog & Toad, which appear to have been allns to his own homosexualy. Now, there’s an animated TV show beg produced on Apple TV-Pl, and  an terview wh the Daily Beast, the producer says will nta homosexual subtext:“Every sgle person on our crew that had a hand the show—as an artist, as a wrer, as a voice actor—they all brought their own versn of Frog and Toad to what they did, ” Hoegee says.