Long time news anchor Llie Roberts out as a gay man. CTV's Graham Richardson spoke to Roberts about his cisn to e out now.
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- LONGTIME NEWS ANCHOR LLIE ROBERTS OUT AS GAY
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
LONGTIME NEWS ANCHOR LLIE ROBERTS OUT AS GAY
He has been livg as an openly gay man for many years.
“I’m a news anchor who jt happens to be gay. I’m not a gay news anchor.
But he pots out olr people remember and unrstand the prsure gay people the public eye were unr. 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 LGBTQ2S+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
“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.
“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.