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Contents:

• GAY FAD STUDS
• GAY FAD
• GAY FAD STUDS REVIV AN OLD NAME AND RRI ON A LEGACY
• AUTHENTIC: DENNY & GAYE COX
• ARE THERE ANY GAY BAR'S LANDSTER?
• GAY OH

GAY FAD STUDS

60 years sce s closg, Gay Fad Studs has returned to Lanster, Oh! The achievements of Gay Fad Studs, a mid-century glassware pany, ntue to spire to this day.

Here, everythg Gay Fad Studs is revived. Learn about the Gay Fad Studs mural here, or or disver the Gay Fad Studs Glass Mm here.

GAY FAD

Gay Fad Studs opened Lanster, OH 1945. Gay Fad's founr was Fran Taylor, who worked at home for seven years hand ratg home goods and glassware ems before openg the stud.

While que prolific durg the mid-century, Gay Fad Studs closed 1962.

GAY FAD STUDS REVIV AN OLD NAME AND RRI ON A LEGACY

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.

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.

AUTHENTIC: DENNY & GAYE COX

“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. “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.

ARE THERE ANY GAY BAR'S LANDSTER?

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.

GAY OH

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. LANCASTER − Gay Fad Studs is a new glassware stud seekg to ntue the legacy of glassmakg that has been a central part of Lanster's keepg wh history, they are revivg the Gay Fad Studs name om a former pnacle of the origal Gay Fad Studs was a natnally-succsful pany found by Lanster-rint Fran Taylor, a trailblazer the glass makg dtry. As part of their missn, hbands David and Jason Annecy, owners of the new Gay Fad Studs hope to spread her legacy to those who have never heard .

"(People) were shocked to fd they had lived here their whole liv and never heard of Fran Taylor or heard of Gay Fad Studs. '"Achievg greater regnn for Taylor is one of the Annecy's two ma reasons for openg Gay Fad Studs, the other beg a love for the muny. "Today, Gay Fad Studs ntu s namak tradn of glassmakg.

"So, Gay Fad Studs had a legacy of glassware ratn and we are tryg to reigne that same approach that Fran took her prev bs.