Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world.
Contents:
- GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
- MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * international gay pride 2023 *
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.Spencer Hodson/Instagram. 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 6.1-ch height.
MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
Hundreds of opponents of gay rights have swarmed the se of an LGBT ftival the pal of the untry of Geia, vandalizg the stage, settg fir and lootg the event’s bar. * international gay pride 2023 *
“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. “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.
* international gay pride 2023 *
Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.
“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said.
A 2017 photo of the Internatnal Homomonument at The Hague.