Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA
• SERB THORI PROHIB GAY PRI PARA
• SERBIE : L GAY PRIS
• SERBIE : UNE GAY PRI SO (TRèS) HTE SURVEILLANCE
• GAY-THEMED MOVIE OVER BALKAN DIVI
• PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

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Selon Srdjan Dragojevic, le film apparaît dans un ntexte où l chos n’ont jamais été ssi grav en term dros l’homme et pl spécifiquement dros s personn homosexuell. It's probably the law of paradox that says that the untry to provi the next signifint ntributn to gay culture would be Serbia. But a film about the battle to stage a Serbian Pri has jt claimed the crown for 2011 at the untry's box office, easily outpacg fellow gay ins The Smurfs the No 2 slot, wh an credible 500, 000 admissns across the Balkans so far.

THOANDS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI PARA

If I had ma a kd of hermetilly sealed drama about the tough life of a gay uple ntemporary Serbia and sred 3, 000 admissns, wouldn't be fair to nclu that the number of liberals here don't go beyond that number, right?

"His film prob as eply to the reasons for Serbian homophobia as any film which the protagonists drive around a pk Mi n. "I'm no medil expert, but Dragojević certaly epens his edy's spe by focg on the machismo of the regn as much as on gay rights. "Dragojević, a director wh a punk-rock past and turbulent algs wh Hollywood, says he wanted the same nontatnal approach towards homophobia that he took wh the Yugoslavian war his most crilly acclaimed films, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) and The Wounds (1998).

SERB THORI PROHIB GAY PRI PARA

"But he r more about homophobic and natnalistic voters and the upg electn than about the nstutn and human rights. “First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non.

"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns.

SERBIE : L GAY PRIS

There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.

”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.

”A gay activist Belgra is attacked durg the cy’s first Pri march June 2001. The rt of Serbia is as homophobic as ever. Gara, who was there, rells that Belgra “looked like a war zone” anti-gay protter objectg to Belgra Pri 2019.

SERBIE : UNE GAY PRI SO (TRèS) HTE SURVEILLANCE

Vučić, a former far-right radil, beme prime mister that year after moratg his polics and wng the support of EU 2017, Vučić even appoted the gay polician Ana Brnabić as his prime misterial replacement when he beme print. “Over 85% of Serbian cizens are agast the promotn of homosexualism and Pri, that’s the issue here, ” said Andrej Mic, Dveri’s d-mannered ternatnal secretary.

”Mic said that Dveri members were not agast human rights or anti-discrimatn laws protectg LGBTQ+ dividuals the workplace, for example, but that they opposed “the promotn of iologil homosexualism” that Pri reprented. REUTERS/Zorana JevticBELGRADE, Sept 11 (Rters) - Thoands of relig and right-wg activists marched through Serbia's pal on Sunday llg for thori to ban a Gay Pri march planned for next protters - who rried a massive Serbian flag - clud groups who also shouted slogans backg Serbia's long-term ally Rsia, as well as natnalistic and far-right . 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.

GAY-THEMED MOVIE OVER BALKAN DIVI

“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.

PROTTERS MARCH BELGRA AGAST PLANNED GAY PRI EVENT

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. 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.