Gay Beer - OutVoic

Contents:

• BEER IS SO GAY
• GAY BEER
• TWO HOT BROOKLYN DADDI ARE MAKG GAY BEER JT FOR YOU!
• 13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
• BROOKLYN GAY BARS
• A GAY GUI TO BROOKLYN

BEER IS SO GAY

Wh the missn of nnectg people and regnizg the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Beer has been dog exactly that sce was troduced 2018! The LGBTQ+ muny has e very far the last 50 years and Gay Beer wants to be sure the history is not overlooked. The LGBTQ+ muny and s supporters hold an immense prence today’s nsumer market and that is why Gay Beer was born to reprent those who stand wh clivy.

Although Gay Beer is for everybody, was ma wh the tentn of directly addrsg the LGBTQ+ muny and s alli.

GAY BEER

The creators, Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, me up wh the simple ncept, “Be happy, drk Gay Beer”. Before Gay Beer me about, Jon and Jason -found Loyal Brands as the steppg stone to creatg products wh a purpose. Gay Beer is a batn of malt gras and German hops that feature hts of honey and cs bed wh nutty flavors, makg for a unique beer experience.

TWO HOT BROOKLYN DADDI ARE MAKG GAY BEER JT FOR YOU!

Jo for Gay (Happy) Hour each Monday and receive $2 off all ns of Gay Beer available at The New Stand onboard our Pri Vsel! Y., Gay Beer is currently available select NYC Whole Foods lotns, on the NYC Ferry, as well as onle through TapRm. A portn of Gay Beer proceeds go to LGBTQ advocy groups each quarter, Gay Beer tells VePair.

Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg. The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals.

Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv. Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn.

13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY

Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters. “A lot of bars are not wantg to say they’re lbian bars, they’re wantg to say they’re queer bars — but a lot of gay male bars keep sayg they’re gay male bars, ” she says.

From a sign standpot, Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg all wanted to reference the cultur they grew om. For Moore and Pazmo, that meant an “Amerina whout the Amerin flag” sign, somethg that reflected the athetics of Juli’ Bar, and the gay men of the ’60s who participated the “sip ” protts. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are n by queer people and support queer people year-round.

BROOKLYN GAY BARS

Buyg Gay Beer at the grocery store signals to everyone who se you that you’re the kd of person who buys Gay Beer. Gay Beer may be explicly queer, but “gay” still feel more fortable on the tongue to a non-queer person than “dyke” or “queer.

A GAY GUI TO BROOKLYN

Wae says, “Many were pleased to see the lnch of somethg actively tryg to make change wh a stagnant and homogeno dtry, and queer and trans folk were pleased to see somethg that reprented them a way that hadn’t been done before. One of their beers, Love Hazy IPA: Pri Edn, transforms Almanac’s most popular hazy IPA durg Pri month to a beer to support the Oakland LGBTQ Communy Center, a nonprof dited to enhancg and stag the well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and Queer people through tnal-, social-, health-, and wellns-related activi, programs, and servic. Awkward Brewg’s Taproom Manager, Harry Stanley, who openly intifi as gay, told the brewery celebrat Pri all year round.

Partners bs and life, Shyla Sheppard and her wife, Missy Begay, opened their Native-, women-, and Queer-owned brewery New Mexi to rporate gredients and culture om their Native Amerin herage. Born and raised on the Fort Berthold Rervatn North Dakota, Sheppard is a member of the Three Affiliated Trib, while Begay is the granddghter of Navajo silversmhs and weavers.

A revered gay bar Greenwich Village New York Cy, The Stonewall Inn is the se of the historic Stonewall Inn Rts, six days of protts and rts rponse to New York Cy police raidg the bar. Often regnized as igng the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and worldwi, the Stonewall Uprisg and The Stonewall Inn have bee tegral to Queer history and the Queer muny. Director of Operatns Anne Abrahamson has proudly reprented as a gay female on the Cerebral Brewg learship team sce jog the brewery four years ago.