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• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
• 50 YEARS AGO TODAY, ‘THE CORNER BAR’ MA HISTORY WH TV’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER (GUT BLOG)
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020
• BT GAY CLUBS NEW ORLEANS

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.

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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.

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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.

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“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. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. 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. 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.”. 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. “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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Instead, he — or rather his tombstone — n be found Congrsnal Cemetery, which claims to be the world’s only graveyard wh an LGBTQ, why is Matlovich buried here — a bulic, 35-acre stretch of land near the Anastia River and RFK Stadium — and why did “Gay Corner, ” as some refer to , velop unr the cherry tre near his 6-by-8-foot grane grave marker?

“It was kd of a middle fger to Hoover, ” says Pl Williams, the cemetery’s much of the mid-20th century, Hoover’s FBI bugged, harassed and attacked gays wh the same vrlic vilence that the agency ed to go after civil rights lears, antiwar activists, alleged munists and others emed “viant” threats to the natn.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Hoover himself was, of urse, believed to be gay — and Tolson was thought (though never proved) to have been his romantic partner — but don’t expect to hear about that if you vis the cemetery.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

A Public Vlt was ed to hold the bodi of Prints John Qucy Adams, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, among others, until they were buried elsewhere the story behd Matlovich’s after-ath prott has s roots the mid-1970s, when he met the early gay rights activist Frankl Kameny — who 1957 had been fired om the Army Map Service for beg gay. He was lookg for “someone wh a flawls rerd who the ary don’t already know is gay, and who is ready to fight as a tt se, ” rells Michael Bedwell, a iend of Matlovich’s and adviser to a project on gay history. That fall, Matlovich moved to G Street SE, across om the then-ndown cemetery, and he disvered that Walt Whman’s lover, Peter Doyle, was buried 1984, two years before Matlovich was diagnosed wh AIDS, he and Bedwell vised Père Lachaise Cemetery Paris, where Osr Wil’s grave is a popular gay statn.

For Matlovich, Congrsnal Cemetery had “gay ronance bee of Doyle”; he bought two plots near Hoover as a last lgh of sorts, explas Bedwell. ” Above those words are two pk triangl, an upward-potg one symbolizg gay rights and an upsi-down one that gay prisoners were forced to wear Nazi ncentratn the left of his grave is a most memorial to Kameny that reads “Gay is Good, ” a then-heretil slogan that the activist ed 1968. William Boyce Mueller, a founr of Fotten Suts — which fought the ban on gays the Boy Suts (the anizatn his grandfather tablished) — is buried close by unr a broad magnolia.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

That year, Stephen was st to the limelight when he was an active-duty soldier Iraq who was booed at a Republin printial bate for his viotaped qutn about endg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” to the cemetery’s gatehoe at Potomac Avenue and E Street SE, several other proment gay men are buried along the path lled Congrs Street. The cemetery also hosts outdoor horror movi the summer and weekend yoga class the chapel or on the June, up to 3, 000 people gather at Gay Corner for the begng of the Pri Run 5K; the fall, the cemetery hosts a Veterans Day memoratn of gay service members. Hoover, the first and longtime director of the FBI, waged an anti-gay war durg the 1950s and ’60s, spyg on spected gay employe of the ernment and referrg to them as “sexual viat.

GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020

Chapter of the Mattache Society, which sent pro-gay lerature and mpaign letters to high-rankg policians—all the way up to Print Lyndon B. The headstone the shape of a prerly balanced, jnty black cube belongs to Ken Drser, a gay graphic signer who worked on Disneyland’s Ma Street Electric Para.

And there is a weddg or two among the funerals— 2011, gay Iraq veteran Stephen Hill married his partner Josh Snyr—legally— ont of Matlovich’s memorial. Ls simple for the time was that one of s barfli was out gay set-signer Peter Panama (played by the veteran character actor Vcent Schiavelli) — a small but bold sign of changg to “The Corner Bar, ” gay characters on the primetime landspe — the few there were – mostly fell to two mps.

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In dramas, they showed up crime or legal seri, the (offscreen) homosexualy servg as fulcm for the week’s plot – blackmail, revenge over unrequed-love, mental stabily – wh a rrelatn seemgly drawn between gay and Read: Disney’s ‘Lightyear, ’ Which Inclus Same-Sex Kiss, Banned Middle EastBut then TV began to bee more real the 1970s, large part due to the arrival of “All the Fay” 1971.

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In fact, agast a backdrop of a growg gay-rights movement sparked by 1969’s Stonewall Rebelln, the fifth episo of the groundbreakg s dared to make homosexualy the subject of an entire episo. ) But Archie’s tolerance is put to the tt later the episo at favore-waterg-hole Kelsey’s when he’s faced wh the possibily that macho bar-pal Steve is himself gay. Even the 1970s landmark s “Soap, ” which ma history five years after “Corner Bar” as the first seri to feature a gay character a leadg role, troduced Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas as limp-wristed and suicidal early episos before he was relibrated away om riture.

(A season earlier, the failed Norman Lear s “The Nancy Walker Show” featured Ken Olfson as prime-time’s first gay character a supportg role, though not much was ma of his personal life.

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)Also Read: Billy Eichner Dat the ‘Gay Tom Brady’ New ‘Bros’ Trailer (Vio)Still, ast-wearg Peter Panama’s bellyg up to “The Corner Bar” was reprentatn, seen by lns, at a cril time. Later 1972, ABC aired “That Certa Summer, ” a movie-of-the-week that marked TV’s first pictn of an adult gay relatnship, but was blacked out by some nervo work January 1973, an episo of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” featured upstairs neighbor Rhoda Menstern a new iendship wh an out gay man, though his was a sgular appearance, servicg a larger story. And May, PBS aired an adaptatn of Bce Jay Friedman’s ntroversial Off Broadway play “Steambath, ” which featured an elrly show-tune-beltg gay uple — and which also was blacked out by a wi swath of s work’s the end of the year, however, the fs and starts of progrs – the closer looks at and examatns of beg gay Ameri, on TV and society — seemed to have helped make a difference: That December, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs.

Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.