Gay8 Ftival is a FREE Lato LGBTQ mic, food, and arts street ftival Miami's Ltle Havana. Jo on Febary 20th, 2022!
Contents:
- GAY OCHO FTIVAL RETURNS TO CALLE OCHO
- GAY8 FTIVAL MAP 2023
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- GAY OCHO FTIVAL 2023 - YOU NEED TO BE IN VIP HURRY DISUNT TH FEBARY 1
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
GAY OCHO FTIVAL RETURNS TO CALLE OCHO
An annual Hispanic street fair dited to LGBTQ+ art, mic, dance, food and culture, Gay8 attracts more than 100,000 people om around Greater Miami & Miami Beach and beyond. * gay ocho 2023 *
What is Gay8 (“Ocho”) Ftival? Gay8 (“Gay Ocho”) is a Hispanic/Lato hosted art, live mic, fashn, dance, food and cultural street ftival Ltle Havana, Miami, FL.
GAY8 FTIVAL MAP 2023
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Miami’s famed hub of everythg Hispanic, Calle Ocho (8th Street) is the historic epicenter of Gay8. But if you thk Gay8 is a street ftival, you’re missg out! Gay8 (“Ocho”) Ftival is a platform, an opportuny to nnect wh parts of South Florida you never knew were there… an amazg sticky ms of fun, diversy, history, culture, passn and South Florida realns meant to engage the muny ways no one knew were possible.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * gay ocho 2023 *
Gay Ocho provis a venue that enurag to SHARE and as our hashtag emphasiz e #LiveYourStoryHere. Gay8 is an vatn to all South Floridians and Internatnal Visors to e to Ltle Havana for the “Fita” of a lifetime. South Florida’s richt flavors will fill the air wh ptivatg aromas as noted lol rtrants pete for Gay8’s bt miami sandwich curated by KIKO – QRICO!!!
Gay8 also clus related activi like the 4Ward Gala at The Biltmore Hotel on 2/10 – see lk on landg page for more rmatn.
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. * gay ocho 2023 *
The natn’s largt diversy and cln ftival Gay8 Ftival, is FREE and back on SUNDAY Febary 19th, 2023 at the famo CALLE OCHO om SW 12th AVE to SW 17th AVE (11AM-11PM). The Gay Ocho Ftival is produced by 4Ward Miami whose missn is to promote diversy and cln and lower polil polarizatn. Gay8 Ftival Map 2023 | GayOcho Ftival.
-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.
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.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * gay ocho 2023 *
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. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.
GAY OCHO FTIVAL 2023 - YOU NEED TO BE IN VIP HURRY DISUNT TH FEBARY 1
“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.
Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said.
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. “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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
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. 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.