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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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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.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * egypt gay *

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.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Egypt's anti-gay crackdown ma headl last September, but one year later, human-rights advot and LGBTQ Egyptians say the persecutn ntu. * egypt gay *

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.”.

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. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

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-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Media ptn, Watch: Ahmed Shihab-Eld meets a member of the LGBT muny who has been targetedIn Egypt, homosexualy is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegatns that police are huntg LGBT people onle.

Now BBC News has seen evince of how the thori are g datg and social apps to do victims' nam have been changed Havg grown up Egypt, I am aware of the pervasive homophobia that permeat every part of s society.

EGYPTIANS OUTRAGED OVER MOVIE PICTG GAY UPLE

There is no explic law agast homosexualy Egypt, but our vtigatn has found that the crime of "bchery" - a sex work law - is beg ed to crimalise the LGBT muny. In one transcript, police scribe intifyg a foreigner, who we are llg Matt, on the popular gay datg app Grdr.

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One such victim, whom we found through the transcripts, was a gay man we are llg Lah.

'YOU N'T BE OUT': GAY EGYPTIANS NTUE TO FEAR PERSECUTN

Lah says the police also tried to get him to rm on other gay people he knew ptn, Lah (right) - the inti of all our ntributors need to be disguisedHow we disguised ntributors' intiFor the BBC documentary Queer Egypt Unr Attack we ed novative face-trackg 3-D maskg to ensure inti remaed protected - the aim was to give the film a more attractive athetic than the ual blobbg technique of disguise allows. '" The Egyptian ernment has spoken publicly about s e of onle surveillance to target what scribed as "homosexual gathergs" 2020, Ahmed Taher, former assistant to the Mister of Interr for Inter Crim and Human Traffickg, told the newspaper Ahl Masr: "We reced police the virtual world to unver the mass of group sex parti, homosexual gathergs.

They are forced at knife pot to give their full nam and adm they are gay.

In one of the vios, an 18-year-old gay man we are llg Saeed is forced to, falsely, say he is a sex worker. It shocked me to learn, the urse of vtigatn that one gang lear, Yahia, is gay and actively postg onle about his own sex perhaps giv him a crimal edge - he knows jt how vulnerable his targets are.

A GAY DATE THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAIRO.

And arguably his own posn, as a gay man wh ltle opportuny, fuels his crimaly. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

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"We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn! CAIRO – Beg gay Egypt ed to be a closely-guard secret. Yet thanks to more wispread Inter e by Egyptians and the monstratns of the Arab Sprg llg for eedom, many gays are more open about their media groups have been created to discs gays' problems, relig fatwas (legal pronouncements) regardg homosexualy and to engage tnal bat about the subject.

The Egyptian ernment ed to jail gays. In 2001, for example, Egyptian police arrted 52 men for prumed homosexual behavr and sentenced 23 of them to 18 months of hard labor. Today gays and others openly celebrate May 17, the "Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia.

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” There was wispread Egyptian media verage of the celebratns here, aimed at creasg rpect for gays and there are no exact numbers on the number of homosexuals Egypt, sexologist Heba Kotb, says uld be 10 to 12% of the recent years there has also been a rise the number of bars and f terg to gays Egypt.

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'You n't be out': Gay Egyptians ntue to fear persecutn .

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