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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

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. Miami’s famed hub of everythg Hispanic, Calle Ocho (8th Street) is the historic epicenter of Gay8.

GAY8 FTIVAL MAP 2023

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. 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. 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).

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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 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. 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.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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. 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.

“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?

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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.

GAY OCHO FTIVAL 2023 - YOU NEED TO BE IN VIP HURRY DISUNT TH FEBARY 1

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 STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“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.