Months after Sgapore crimalized nsensual gay sex, the cy-state’s clost thg to a Pri event highlights how far s LGBT muny has e—and how far still has to go.
Contents:
- A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY
- MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
- THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY
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Be members of the LGBTQ+ muny or alli, people om all over the world take part events all June to exprs their support for gay rights. The history of Pri Month dat back to June 1969 when the New York Police Department (NYPD) nducted a seri of spontaneo raids on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village near Manhattan.
Openg up about a 2015 podst wh the Allnist, he said, “I thored the word ‘pri’ for gay pri … [my] first thought was ‘Gay Power. ’ I didn’t like that, so proposed gay pri. Ma attractns: The inic gay para, which is the centrepiece of the month-long events, will take place on 26 June the Bay area.
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.
MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme. The bill is expected to go to parliament September. * gay pride singapore 2023 *
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.Spencer Hodson/Instagram. 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 6.1-ch height. “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.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.
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“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. As they enjoyed the floats and affirmatns of support for LGBTQ+ persons, they also ponred polil headwds facg gay and trans Amerins portns of the the rner of Bnswick Street and Park Avenue Rochter, llege stunts cheered the Pri Para om their porch Saturday afternoon, watchg the last of the floats and marchers. ”-- Maryann BatllePri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.