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• FORMER AVALON SGER MICHAEL PASSONS SAYS HE WAS KICKED OUT OF CHRISTIAN BAND FOR BEG GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• GAY PASSN, GAY PRI
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAY PASSN, GAY PRI: AMERI'S MOST POWERFUL GAY MAGAZE TURNS 40 THIS YEAR. JO AS WE UNT DOWN TO OUR GALA 40TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE--BEE THE CELEBRATN IS FOR YOU.

FORMER AVALON SGER MICHAEL PASSONS SAYS HE WAS KICKED OUT OF CHRISTIAN BAND FOR BEG GAY

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 LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

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“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.

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“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. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

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“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. The sger-songwrer, 54, revealed durg Wednday's episo of Jonah and the Whale podst that he was actually kicked out of the Grammy-wng mil act bee he is gay.

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Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. You uld say The Advote started when the ps phed around one gay man too many.

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In 1966 the Los Angel Police Department was raidg the cy's gay bars at will, vandalizg the premis, arrtg and roughg up the patrons. One man, Dick Michaels (who, like many of his ntemporari, ed a "nom gay" for self-protectn), experienced that abe and refed to get over .

's Silver Lake district, a lol gay group lled PRIDE anized a seri of protts ont of the bar. The Advote belongs to all of Advote's origal edor-publisher had an unlikely background for foundg the first effective natnal gay newspaper: He eded a chemil tra night 1966, Dick Michaels, a Ph.

That night, Michaels beme a gay rights other matters, Michaels remaed nservative and unsympathetic to the "back of the paper, " where reviews and terviews ran. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.

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SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

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