Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen out as gay a first for US-based pro leagu

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• WARM UP: 5 SPRG EVENTS FOR THE GAY CROWD
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• WHY PALM SPRGS IS THE GAYT TOWN AMERI
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
• 10 FRH SPRG DATE IAS FOR GAY COUPL

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Photo: Brtany Petronella Hop the subway down to to check out the betiful buddg tre at Cherry Hill—jt steps away om Sheep Meadow, where New York Cy’s first Pri March 1970 culmated a “gay-” wh thoands of LGBTQ+ folk and their supporters. Cap off the night by releasg your ner crooner at Marie’s Crisis, the Wt Village sg-along piano bar that’s an NYC gay Gordon, ACT UP activists at Pri March, 1988. Move next to NYU’s Grey Art Gallery to see how Stonewall impacted the generatn of artists that followed, the groundbreakg exhibn Art After Stonewall, a -productn wh Soho’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

After dner, head to the Wt Village for drks, first stoppg at Juli’, where a 1966 “sip-” prott by gays predated the Stonewall Uprisg by three years. 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. “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.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

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.

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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. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.

WHY PALM SPRGS IS THE GAYT TOWN AMERI

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

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The vibe is a ee spired atmosphere where gay men n let loose and be themselv. Warm Sands Gay Rorts.

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This Palm Sprgs gay men’s rort the Warm Sands neighborhood is one of the first gay clothg optnal rorts Palm Sprgs. For the discerng gay travelers, their secret garn sanctuary is a place to celebrate life and love and personal eedom every day.

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