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

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• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GPOS WHATSAPP GAY
• GPOS WHATSAPP GAYS

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

History & CultureExplaerDigned to dispt the stat quo and ga support for gay rights, the theatril tactics clud everythg om duck stum to pie throwg. The topic was aversn therapy, a form of psdoscientific nversn therapy which gay men were admistered electric shocks and other stimuli to “cure” their sexual attractn to other Silverste wasn’t there to learn. As a leadg psychologist took the podium, Silverste hurried to the ont of the room and troduced himself as a gay activist.

” Pneered by gay liberatn activists the early 1970s, zappg bed prott wh performance tactic was ceptively simple.

Silverste’s activism helped prompt the eventual removal of homosexualy as a medil disorr diagnosis.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Activists cred wh growg their ranks, make their markFor most of s history, discrimatn and anti-gay laws were the norm the Uned Stat. Homosexualy was classified as a mental disorr, and before 1961, every state crimalized sodomy. The laws were ed to jtify sweeps of spected gay bars and public parks, and LGBTQ people risked public huiatn, job loss, and even crimal prosecutn for their gay and lbian groups that emerged durg the 1950s and 1960s did publicly prott anti-LGBTQ discrimatn.

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But though there were some rts and noisy nontatns durg the era, protts were typilly well-mannered monstratns like the “Annual Remr, ” a yearly event at which protters bs attire quietly picketed Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall an attempt to show gay men as orrly, ntributg members of me the June 28, 1969, Stonewall uprisg. The rt, which broke out after police raid a gay bar New York Cy, galvanized the LGBTQ muny.

Their tratns about police entrapment and social stigma boiled over to the gay liberatn movement. Groups alced around the untry, and one of them, the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), me up wh a simple and extremely visible form of prott: zappg. Fstrated that the mayor had refed to meet wh them and had avoid mentg on gay liberatn, the group took actn.

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In 1971, for example, the GAA and the Dghters of Bilis, a lbian group, targeted Filifacts, a New York-based pany that performed background checks and was acced of vtigatg and targetg LGBTQ pany’s print had stated that his le of thumb for intifyg gay people was that “if looks like a duck, walks like a duck, associat only wh ducks and quacks like a duck, he is probably a duck. In ont of a live dience of 60 ln viewers, Mark Allan Segal, a member of a small group lled the Gay Rairs and an acplished zapper, jumped ont of the mera and held up a sign that said “Gays Prott CBS Prejudice. ” He was prottg major works’ pictn of LGBTQ people and the way their verage ignored thgs like gay pri paras and equaly worked: Not only did the work beg verg LGBTQ issu, but Cronke beiend Segal and began to report on the stggl and succs of the movement.

Another noteworthy zap took place 1977, when activist Tom Higgs h sger and anti-gay rights mpaigner Ana Bryant the face wh a strawberry-rhubarb pie durg a prs nference D Mo, Iowa. Bryant rpond by kneelg prayer and askg God to liver Higgs om his “viancy”; a satisfied Higgs told a Gay Communy News rrponnt that “There is nothg more huiatg than gettg a pie your face.

”The early gay liberatn protters didn’t jt want to reach their straight opprsors. Between 1969 and 1973, groups like the GAA spired the formatn of nearly 800 gay and lbian groups, polil scientist Matthew D. Hdman not; by the end of the 1970s, there were more than 2, then, however, zaps had mostly fad away as movement lears, facg public cricism and fightg over ant prott tactics, began to ph for LGBTQ rights on a natnal sle through anizatns like the Natnal Gay Task Force (now the Natnal LGBTQ Task Force) legacy lived on, however, and the tactic was revived the late 1980s, when participants the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP) began a seri of powerfully disptive monstratns that drew upon zap tactics.