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- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- LIVERPOOL'S GAY MUNY PAYS TRIBUTE TO KILLED TEENAGER
- THE 5 BEST LIVERPOOL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LIVERPOOL
- LIVERPOOL GAY QUARTER - HISTORY OF GAY LIVERPOOL - FURTHER REARCH
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
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New York (CNN) — 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. “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.
LIVERPOOL'S GAY MUNY PAYS TRIBUTE TO KILLED TEENAGER
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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.
THE 5 BEST LIVERPOOL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LIVERPOOL
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. On a normal Saturday night, the G Bar, Liverpool's most popular gay club, is so rowdy you have to shout yourself hoarse to be heard.
LIVERPOOL GAY QUARTER - HISTORY OF GAY LIVERPOOL - FURTHER REARCH
But midway through last Saturday's revelry, the dancefloor fell silent after a msage went out over the club's PA: a popular lol teenager had died after beg btally beaten what police believe to be a homophobic attack. The gay teenager, a traee hairdrser who changed the lour of his hair as often as his socks, had been a regular at the club. "If people had a go at him for beg gay, he would jt lgh, " said Michael Donnelly, 18, a iend sce primary school.
' He was proud of beg gay. "Whether or not the attack on Michael was a hate crime, the se has heightened ncerns about homophobia Merseysi. "There is an appallg level of enmic homophobia Liverpool, " said Steve Radford, a cy uncillor of 29 years standg, who is gay.