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Contents:

• 'GAY ATH': THEY SAY 30 IS THE NEW 25
• GAY DEATH
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
• DEATH SENTENC FOR THREE GAY MEN NIGERIA ‘OPENS THE DOOR’ FOR MORE ‘DRANIAN JUDGEMENTS’
• ADULT INDTRY’S GAY PERFORMER ALEX RILEY’S CSE OF DEATH AT 22
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

'GAY ATH': THEY SAY 30 IS THE NEW 25

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.

GAY DEATH

“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.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

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.”.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

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. This weekend I turn 25 and, as a paid-up member of the homosexual muny, that means I am periloly close to wnsg my own funeral. "Gay ath", as is termed, is the unfairly early age at which gay men are no longer emed to be fun, attractive or valuable by their youthful peers.

If, as I am reliably rmed, 30 is the new 25 when to gay ath, then surely 25 is at the very least "gay retirement". This whole c theory is, of urse, advanced by bter old gays who venture that the world pretty much end at 30.

D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN

But 's not whout a gra of tth: we're all aware that our unblemished 20-somethg sk nnot last forever, and that at some pot the gymnasium morphs om optnal vany project to tragic, gay ath cuts to the fear of ageg that fters somewhere all of . When a gay man turns 30, 's known as Gay my god, next week is Gay Death for me!

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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men. They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr. Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars.

DEATH SENTENC FOR THREE GAY MEN NIGERIA ‘OPENS THE DOOR’ FOR MORE ‘DRANIAN JUDGEMENTS’

Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.

Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed. It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December. ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L.

ADULT INDTRY’S GAY PERFORMER ALEX RILEY’S CSE OF DEATH AT 22

Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife. People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia. Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge. A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”.

In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

“She wanted to be the first televangelist to terview a gay man wh AIDS, ” Pieters told People magaze two years ago. “So many people have said my terview wh her helped them e out or even saved them om suici, by helpg them realize they uld be gay and Christian or that God was not punishg them wh AIDS for beg gay. Pieters also served for years on the board of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, for whom he sang sce 1994 ncert halls that clud Carnegie Hall New York, Tchaikovsky Hall Mosw and the Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angel.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Donatns his memory n be ma to AIDS Project Los Angel, Cy of Hope, The Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel and/or Project Angel Food. The islamic lg of ath by stong given to three gay men Nigeria has rocked the LGBTQ+ muny. A Sharia urt lg Nigeria that saw three gay men sentenced to ath by stong uld be a “slippery slope” to more vlence agast the queer muny, LGBTQ+ groups say.

On 1 July, the urt Bchi, Nigeria, sentenced three gay men, aged 20, 30 and 70, to ath by stong.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Sharia law has bee a tool agast homosexualy Nigeria. Whether the urt follows through wh the sentencg or not, the se will likely rile up homophob the untry and ce abe toward queer people.

Marle Oluchi, a board member the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn’s Ain arm, said this sentencg is a “slippery slope” to lated vlence agast the LGBTQ+ Nigeria. In 2014, a gay man who was charged for homosexual acts was sentenced to 20 lash urt. In the same year, 11 men acced of homosexualy were put on trial.

The seeds of jtice and discrimatn were planted long before the sentencg of the three gay men this year.