Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did.
Contents:
- 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’
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
The letters stand for: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr. This is the most well-known of all the acronyms, butg back the mid-1980s as a way to une the muny and move away om the often rogatory-laced “homosexual” (among other words). Once upon a time, four letters were monly ed to scribe the queer muny as a whole: "L" for lbian, "G" for gay, "B" for bisexual and "T" for trans, creatg an acronym: that was then, and this is now.
But there is a reason and history behd s the rise of the acronym, people often simply said, "the gay muny" or "the gay and lbian muny" — which left out bisexual people, who make up the majory of the LGBTQIA+ populatn as a whole, and transgenr people, a group that is largely creded for spearheadg the queer-rights movement to beg wh. People who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or anythg else, may also embrace the "queer" label, as more sgular labels may be perceived as too limg. Consirg a recent survey by the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that 12 percent of the populatn intifi as LGBTQIA+, 's more ccial than ever to unrstand the termology around this growg muny.
Until somewhat recently, variatns of the term "gay muny" were ed to enpass the entirety of the group that we now refer to as LGBTQIA+.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
Magaze, the first acronym to take shape the 1990s was "GLBT, " ed to scribe those who intified as eher gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. " This notatn clus space for those intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (and some s, "qutng"), tersex, asexual (and sometim "ally"), and the "+" is for a plethora of other orientatns and inti. Before then, the term "gay" was ed to refer to both men and women, although was more closely associated wh men.
G: Gay.
Before the latter half of the 19th century, the word "gay" simply referred to someone who was "reee, " "cheerful, " or "bright and showy, " acrdg to The Oxford Dictnary of Difficult Words.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Sce then, the word "gay" has fully replaced the term "homosexual, " which many found to be too clil and was riddled wh stigma. Acrdg to the Universy of Illois, "gay" is still ed to scribe a number of thgs, cludg the LGBTQIA+ muny as a whole, a sgle dividual who do not intify as straight, and men who are attracted to other men a "romantic, erotic and/or emotnal sense. (And, while this should go whout sayg, the ia that intifyg as bisexual is a "way statn" om straight to gay is an accurate and hurtful stereotype.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
The "A" LGBTQIA+ n also refer to the term "ally, " which is ed to fe someone who "nonts heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, heterosexual, and genrstraight privilege themselv and others, " acrdg to the Universy of Illois. Begng 1981, the perd of several years over which HIV/AIDS spread rapidly among the gay muny.
Thoands of gay people lost their liv to AIDS-related illns durg the 1980s, at a time when the ndn was unr-rearched and nsired untreatable. 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.