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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. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.
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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. Another is about a crayon labeled as red that is really the past three years, Orange County native Keiko Feldman has helped donate and hand-liver more than 15, 000 LGBTQ-affirmg children’s books to more than 1, 000 public school librari, mostly ia is to show children om a young age that ’s okay to be LGBTQ, said Feldman, a documentary producer who is mom to one transgenr child and one gay child and who -found the nonprof Open Books. Contrary to what some parents fear, readg about gay or transgenr people will not make children gay or transgenr, she add.
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Unrstandg and acceptance are cril, she said, as LGBTQ youth are far more likely to suffer om low self-teem, prsn and three-quarters of gay, lbian or bisexual youth have reported feelg sad or hopels almost every day for weeks a row, pared to 37 percent of heterosexual youth, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn.
1, LoraTo the Edor:Re “Why the Beach Is a Bummer, ” by Roxane Gay (Sunday Review, July 27):My first time at the ocean was the summer of 1953, when I was 14 months old.