It is still unknown whether this legendary sger Prce was gay, bisexual, straight, or of any other sexual orientatn.
Contents:
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- EDOR’S COLUMN: THE POSSIBILI LOST TO A DEAD GAY PRCE
- WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
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. “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.
EDOR’S COLUMN: THE POSSIBILI LOST TO A DEAD GAY PRCE
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. “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. He was gay.
What if that heir’s untimely mise had to do wh the fact that he was well known ele Brish circl, and well mored the general public, to be gay? Could a signifint amount of the rnage of the 20th century have been migated bee, by virtue of beg gay, his sensibili, totally unlike those of his thoroughly male chvist younger brother who’d bee the war-plic Kg Gee V, were acutely averse to the unfoldg of this unbelievable butchery? Eddy sudnly beme serly ill and died after only a few days January 1891 the midst of an fluenza outbreak and ls than two years after he was ught up a homosexual brothel sndal.
WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
One book about Eddy and all this by Theo Aronson, “Prce Eddy and the Homosxual Unrworld” (Borough, England, Lume Books, 1994), tails everythg about the cint, and another by Andrew Cook, “Prce Eddy, the Kg Bra Never Had” (Smoud, England, The History Prs, 2008), provis lots of documentatn of Eddy’s grac personaly and brief public reer that rulted the massive effort to tat and discred his role.
The Cleveland Street sndal happened around the same time as the famo trial of Osr Wil (1895), and March 1892 ath of Walt Whman, whose works spired the upg generatn of homosexualy-affirmg pneers like Edward Carpenter (who wrote 1894 “Love’s Comg of Age”), John Addgton Symonds and a growg number of “Uranian” poets.
Was Prce Gay? So is still unknown whether this legendary sger was gay, bisexual, straight, or of any other sexual orientatn.