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• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

The actor played an out gay man named Derek the tv seri Love Victor.

When "Love, Simon" premiered 2018, the groundbreakg film was the first gay teenage love story released by a major stud (via Variety). Still, was important for Gage to play, his words, "a gay character who's tryg to navigate his first real love and his notns of monogamy.

Tom Holland has been fend by fans over The Crowd Room backlash ( Picture: Apple TV)Tom Holland has been fend by fans om homophobic backlash over a sex scene The Crowd Room.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

While the moment set social media alight wh praise, also enuraged bigots to plague Twter wh homophobic remarks. ‘It only took Tom Holland dog one gay scene for Twter to explo to homophobic rants, agile masculy & toxic behavur, ’ wrote on fan. Another agreed: ‘People makg homophobic jok about this need to unrstand that the hallmark of a good actor is lettg yourself be open to new rol that challenge you.

‘The way how y’all are rpondg to Tom Holland actg a f**kg SHOW is beyond juvenile and homophobic, ’ fumed a third, and their cri were thankfully echoed by so many others. 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. 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.

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.

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

“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.

Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.