Gay Beer | Craft Collective

Contents:

• WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
• THE SEARCH FOR THE GAYT BEER IN AMERI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE RULTS ARE IN
• HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
• DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?
• CONSERVATIVE FLUENCER MAK SHOCKG DISVERY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE & BEER
• BEER IS SO GAY
• PRI AND POLICS: GAY BEER AND MARKETG ‘AUTHENTICY’
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY BEER
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?

“It don’t make you gay, mak you a better person, ” -founr Jason Pazmo quips. Gay Beer me about bee the partners saw a lack of brands directly marketg to their muny, outsi of once-a-year Gay Pri stts. The beer’s name, while lighthearted, also taps to society’s gay panic, and fear of otherns.

“I thought was an opportuny to take the word back and show there is no fear the word ‘gay’, ” Pazmo says. Given that Gay Beer nods to s muny, s missn mandat quarterly donatns to LGBTQ anizatns. Last month, Gay Beer held a fundraiser beneftg Marsha’s Hoe, an LGBTQ youth shelter the Bronx.

“You’re holdg a n that says ‘gay, ’ but you’re still straight, ” Pazmo adds.

THE SEARCH FOR THE GAYT BEER IN AMERI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE RULTS ARE IN

Gay Beer founrs and real-life uple Jon Moore and Jason Arsenlt / Gay Beer. One of their beers, Love Hazy IPA: Pri Edn, transforms Almanac’s most popular hazy IPA durg Pri month to a beer to support the Oakland LGBTQ Communy Center, a nonprof dited to enhancg and stag the well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and Queer people through tnal-, social-, health-, and wellns-related activi, programs, and servic. Partners bs and life, Shyla Sheppard and her wife, Missy Begay, opened their Native-, women-, and Queer-owned brewery New Mexi to rporate gredients and culture om their Native Amerin herage.

Born and raised on the Fort Berthold Rervatn North Dakota, Sheppard is a member of the Three Affiliated Trib, while Begay is the granddghter of Navajo silversmhs and weavers. A revered gay bar Greenwich Village New York Cy, The Stonewall Inn is the se of the historic Stonewall Inn Rts, six days of protts and rts rponse to New York Cy police raidg the bar. Often regnized as igng the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and worldwi, the Stonewall Uprisg and The Stonewall Inn have bee tegral to Queer history and the Queer muny.

Director of Operatns Anne Abrahamson has proudly reprented as a gay female on the Cerebral Brewg learship team sce jog the brewery four years ago. “It’s tly a muny for everyone, not jt black, whe, but straight, gay.”. DBCo serv the same gatherg functn as gay bars, which have slowly been disappearg om plac where once they were rnerston, leavg Queer people short supply of spac to ll their own.

HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

That means hostg gay-oriented events (like Bears, Brews, & Boys) and participatg cywi events (like the Boston Pri Para, which award DBCo Bt Float 2019). Addnally, the brewery works wh Boston BAGLY, the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lbian Youth. A small gay and Mexin-owned brewery that opened only earlier this year, El Sueño has already ma a big impact on s muny.

DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?

Started by craft beer lovers and members of the Queer muny, Jason Pazmo and Jon Moore, Gay Beer honors the herage of the Queer muny and speaks directly to a diverse dience. Beer cultivat nversatn, so Gay Beer, particular, emphasiz how we n make the dtry more diverse.

Wh all this md, a portn of proceeds om the sale of Gay Beer go directly back to supportg LGBTQIA+ advocy. In the past, Gay Beer has worked wh anizatns like Project Renewal, Center for Black Equy, Hog Works, and more.

Or hirg an entirely Queer staff and postg signs around the taproom that say racism and homophobia won’t stand. The taproom has bee a hub for the Queer muny, wh Goldspot hostg everythg om Queer Dungeons & Dragons to craft markets featurg Queer-owned bs to open mic nights wh Queer performers and gay dance parti. One of Hieber’s favore events, Homos and Homi, v a BIPOC vegan food tck and a Queer-owned one, along wh Queer artists and vendors, to set up on Goldspot’s pat.

CONSERVATIVE FLUENCER MAK SHOCKG DISVERY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE & BEER

Goldspot raised $300 durg the last Homos and Homi, but each participatg vendor donat too, brgg the grand total to a uple of thoand dollars. Wh s lorful chairs, beers, and staff, this very well uld be “the first gay brewery the world!” as proclaims on s webse.

BEER IS SO GAY

And sometim you’ll fd a beer like Gay Beach (named after a nickname for San Francis’s Dolor Park, a well-known venue for Pri) released for Pri 2018 that explicly shows the brewery’s Queer roots.

The Queer Beer veteran and Chigo-based brewery’s Gay IPA reprents exactly what the name says—beg gay. Beyond turng heads, Marz’s Gay IPA also supports the lol LGBTQ+ muny wh a portn of the proceeds om sal donated to anizatns such as The Legacy Project, Equaly Illois, and ALMA Chigo. Last June, Olive P ma a limed edn Pri shirt, donatg the proceeds to the Trevor Project, supportg gay youth.

But don’t jt ll a “gay bar.” This proud place striv for equaly and clivy a safe and posive environment. As the brewery wrote a recent Instagram post, “As a gay-owned, fay bs, Pri isn’t jt one month for …’s 365!” We uldn’t agree more. The beer, named after the phrase ”a iend of Dorothy,” symboliz the secret signal ed by gay men datg back to at least World War II when beg Queer was illegal.

PRI AND POLICS: GAY BEER AND MARKETG ‘AUTHENTICY’

Courty of HeekenIn 2014 Heeken lnched a mpaign featurg Neil Patrick Harris, the brand’s first openly gay ambassador.

Not only that, but the beer was even brewed wh water om the Stonewall Inn, which birthed the gay rights movement.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Courty of Gay BeerGay Beer was found by Jason Pazmo and Jon Moore, two members of the queer muny wh a passn for beer. Baird, notably, reached out to his gay neighbors on Castro Street, key among them a radil labor activist named Howard Wallace and a lol mera-shop owner and aspirg polician, Harvey Milk.

Milk told Baird that he had to get unn jobs for openly gay men and women. And say ‘Hey, get rid of that sh!’ ” Owners and patrons plied, and Coors beme a rare sight at gay bars and clubs.

GAY BEER

By the 1990s, Joe and other fay members were also lked to Moral Majory and anti-gay, fay-valu ndidat and .

As one boytt leaflet noted 1997, “When you support Coors, they fight agast your rights.” It was, the leaflet said, “Trickle Down Homophobia.”. As Joe’s brother Bill put a 1977 meetg wh gay activists Los Angel, “We found out that the gay muny was havg a boytt of our product, and this was the first time that we knew there was a very well-fed gay muny.”.

In 1979 Coors add sexual orientatn to s nondiscrimatn clse and began payg for ads gay publitns. Many gay activists refed to see the efforts as anythg more than disgenuo payoffs and have vigoroly protted Coors’ sponsorships over the years. In 1979, when the pany sought to open a send brewery on the East Coast, Virgia’s Shenandoah Valley, lols worried that their home would bee “a haven for homosexuals” bee of Coors’ advertisg mpaigns.

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

It ultimately took the pany two years to secure the land for s new brewery, all while litely balancg overtur to both nservativ and gay nsumers. As one nsultg firm nclud after nng a seri of foc groups 1988, most queer beer drkers uld not “intify any scenar unr which they would beg to drk [Coors] products.” It simply wasn’t worth to try to w them over, suggted the firm: “The gay muny’s negative feelgs n ep.” As a rult, the nsumers flocked to imports like Corona and Heeken, as well as domtics like Budweiser—and y, Bud Light. GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, has scribed Coors as "among the most progrsive for s employee polici toward gays."Budweiser has also sponsored a number of LGBTQ+ events, cludg London Pri and Toronto Pri 2019.