As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- IS DIMRI REALLY GAY?
- THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
- DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
- THE WCHER WAS SUPER GAY WAY BEFORE SEASON 3
- IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
IS DIMRI REALLY GAY?
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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.
THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
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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.
DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
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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. 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 WCHER WAS SUPER GAY WAY BEFORE SEASON 3
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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.
IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
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“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. “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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
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. Same-sex love scen once proved too sndalo for much of mastream TV, but the sex-driven plots of soap operas, gay and lbian characters have enjoyed some moments of timacy worthy of a parental warng. Wh the ph to crowdfund a fourth season of steamy gay soap Dante's Cove, surely more heat is on the way.
Will and Sonny's First Time (Days of Our Liv)When Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis, young gay members of two major fai on the long-nng soap Days of Our Liv, got together, showed that mment to the characters' sexualy than was more than a sishow. Ne Explos (As the World Turns)Sometim lled Amerin soaps' first gay super-uple, Le Snyr and Noah Mayer were romantilly lked on the sce-nceled As the World Turns, but waed about two years between a first kiss 2007 and fally dog the ed 2009.
Dperate HoewivDperate Hoewiv' out creator, Marc Cherry, ma no secret that the Van Kamp fay stood for his own, but still stunned many viewers when son Andrew was revealed to be gay. (One Life to Live)One of daytime soaps' first love scen between two gay men took place 2009 when Oliver Fish and Kyle Lewis stripped each other down while ndl burned the foreground.
10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
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” So Miguel’s former portrayer publicly disclosed his 2011 memoir that he is gay. The Young & Rtls vet whose character Phillip played ad for years rather than e out to his fay is also gay real life. The One Life to Live scene stealer — now and forever David Vickers to soap fans — announced durg a 2013 talk-show appearance not only that he was gay but that he’d bee a sgle father of two.
“For me, beg gay was a dirty word growg up, and now this is my tth. ” The Emmy wner even created After Forever, a Web soap which he plays a gay widower. He and his hband, oime Amazg Race nttant Jaym Vghan, beme the first gay uple to grace the ver of The Knot.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
“As a gay guy, you have to e out all the time, ” he told Entertament Weekly. “People thk g out is the first time [someone] says they’re gay when realy g out is a nstant procs. When Heartstopper st s superlative teenage leads, Locke was already out as gay.
In addn to his daytime rol, he starred 2020’s Dashg December, one of the first mastream TV movi to make Christmas a gay old time. Though the rap in and Equalizer star told the New York Tim as recently as 2008 that “I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t re if people thk I’m gay or not, ” she fally end all the speculatn at the 2021 BET Awards when, acceptg a Lifetime Achievement Award, she thanked partner Eboni Nichols and the son that they share.
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