Canned cktail 'Gay Water' aims to sh on Bud Light's mistak

Contents:

• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• HEAD OF UNED AIRL PILOT UNN RIGNS AFTER MAKG SULTG AND 'APPROPRIATE' REMARKS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN, AND ETHNIC MORY GROUPS

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CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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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. 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.

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.

HEAD OF UNED AIRL PILOT UNN RIGNS AFTER MAKG SULTG AND 'APPROPRIATE' REMARKS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE, WOMEN, AND ETHNIC MORY GROUPS

“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. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.