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• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS STLAND
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CENTRAL STLAND
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• GAY STLAND (UK) TRAVEL GUI
• DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY
• ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
• GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• KILTG IT UP GAY STLAND – THE NOMADIC BOYS
• THE 5 BEST STLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS STLAND
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EDBURGH
• GAY STLAND
• GAY STLAND … THE MYSTERY OF ‘WHAT’S UNR HIS KILT’ REVEALED!
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• GAY STLAND, GB
• THE BEST ABEREN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ABEREN

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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.

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.

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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.

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“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.

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Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

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Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. Image ptn, Dan Harry om Coatbridge was a nttant on BBC Three's "I kissed a Boy"A nttant who appeared on the UK's first gay datg show is takg part a new HIV vacce trial.

"The trial, EHVA PO1, is beg n by specialists London at the St Stephen's Centre and Wtmster Hospal as well as wh partner s source, Dan HarryImage ptn, Dan Harry marched wh Terrence Higgs tst at London pri this year to raise awarens of their work to end HIVMr Harry said that due to the lack of tn school he was left anx about HIV and left him sred to e out as gay.

"There is a misnceptn around HIV, still predomately affects gay men the UK but actually the implitns this vacce uld have is on a more global sle, " he said.

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Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

800/448-8550 or 954/630-1637;) is the tra associatn for the gay and lbian travel dtry, and offers an onle directory of gay- and lbian-iendly travel bs; go to their webse and click on "Members. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

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In a st-cuttg move, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg guard TyTy Washgton Jr., and forwards Usman Gaba, Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr for Patty Mills, sourc told ESPN on Saturday.

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Adrian Wojnarowski: The Atlanta Hawks are tradg TyTy Washgton, Usman Gaba, Rudy Gay and a send-round pick to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr for Patty Mills, sourc tell ESPN. The Atlanta Hawks have acquired forward Rudy Gay and a ndnal 2026 send-round pick om the Utah Jazz exchange for forward John Colls, was announced today.

JACKSONVILLE — Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. "He says homosexualy was somethg fai, relig stutns, the medil profsn and society at large all chose to source, Elae LivgstoneImage ptn, San (left) and Gerrie Douglas-Stt had Nila Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie as wns at their weddg"Growg up queer post-war Stland is sentially occupyg a social and sexual wilrns, " Dr Meek of male homosexualy had been outlawed for centuri and were ma stricter the late 19th Century but same-sex ntact between women had never been targeted law and was not illegal.

"Image source, Equaly Network/Same Love PhotographyImage ptn, Douglas Pretsell and Peter Gloster formalised their marriage SydneyPeople went to prison for sometim two years or were locked up psychiatric 1957, after a succsn of well-known men were nvicted of homosexual offenc, the Wolfenn report remend that "homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private should no longer be a crimal offence".

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But bee of Jam Adair, homosexualy Stland remaed illegal, classified as crimally-praved source, Getty ImagMany gay Sts had to rign themselv to a life the 1969, a brave group of gay Sts cid they uld not change their sexualy so they set out to change SMG (Sttish Mori Group) arranged diss and get-togethers for gay men and for lbian women. The SMG started to make money and leased property Broughton Street Edburgh where set up the Gay Informatn Centre and operated a telephone, historian and gay activist Bob Cant says: "I thk the Sttish Mori Group serv an enormo amount of cred. "Thirteen years after the law was reformed England, Labour MP Rob Cook lodged an amendment the Sttish Crimal Jtice Bill and homosexualy was fally crimalised Stland ptn, Leanne and Marie Banks were one of the first gay upl Stland to bee marriedThat saw an explosn of gay culture to the mastream.

"Dpe the study relatg to dg addicts and the figur beg batable, homosexual sex was once aga portrayed as somethg to 1987 Margaret Thatcher's ernment went to war wh the gay source, Tged Memori / Equaly NetworkImage ptn, Joe Schofield (left) and partner Mallm Brown (right) were among the first to marry unr the new lawThe prime mister told the Tory nference: "Children who need to be tght the tradnal moral valu are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay.

"There was outrage and protts across the untry at this rollg back of the rights of gay people but the law stayed place until the re-tablishment of the Sttish Parliament of s first acts was to repeal Sectn 28 but had a battle on s hands. Journalist David Torrance says that spe beg very unpleasant at the time was a "thartic" experience that got Stland talkg about gay rights issu and fally swept away the old the Millennium, Sts attus to homosexualy have changed dramatilly.

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Surveys suggt that more than two thirds of Sts actively approve of gay marriage and is now homophobia that is 2005, civil partnerships were ma legal for gay upl and the followg year same-sex upl were able to year, as the Commonwealth Gam was beg shown around the world, Stland clared s new openns wh a kilted gay kiss as part of the openg year end wh gay marriage beg legal Stland and the lear of the Sttish Conservativ, a lbian, passnately supportg the move. 2019: Stland’s Makar Jackie Kay (who has wrten of how she realised she was gay at 17, but felt unable to al wh this for some years after) pos a poem about Mary Queen of Sts givg birth for the new Edburgh Castle d gui. This post has been amend to reflect more of Glasgow’s LGBT+ history, wh thanks to David Thomas, Former Director of Glasgow LGBT Centre, Lbian & Gay Swchboard and Wt of Stland LGBT Fom.

The Police Stland work alongsi Stland's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny to try to elimate LGBT-related hate crim and discrimatn. From the sparklg fairy pools of the Isle of Skye to the Sttish Highlands’ wild landsp, dive ep to the land of whiskey and bagpip wh our very own ten-day erary unleashg the bt of gay Stland.

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Some ral streets are que narrow, though they tend to be ls Dimri HouttemanPerched atop a seri of craggy hills overlookg the glterg sea, Edburgh mirrors s magnificent settg wh s bbled streets, spired skyle, and woodland landspeStland 10 Days IteraryNow that you’re ready for your ultimate gay Stland road trip erary, your next step is to ci where to land. The Kelvgrove Art Gallery and Mm, Glasgow Botanic Garns, and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall are all Edburgh and Aberen gay life tends to be most talked about, Glasgow is home to a thrivg gay muny, fluenced largely by the annual Glasgay Ftival.

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Whether ’s over a sy pt at the pub or via a fabulo allnighter on the dance floor, expect a thrivg gay Glasgow nightlife scene that promis a ltle somethg for everyone.

Image source, PAImage ptn, Gay Pri Edburgh 2016Stland pris self on beg one of the most progrsive untri Europe on issu of sexualy and genr inty but for gay men was not always such an open-md place.

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England and Wal n now mark 50 years sce the historic reforms which partially crimalised homosexualy between two nsentg men private over 21 years of age.

Nick explas his bsh wh the says: "I was so trated and lonely and isolated and all those thgs that sgle people go through, and more so when you feel you're outsi of society, that I did what many gay men have done and that is I ed to e toilets to try to fd some sort of ntact.

The Wolfenn Commtee Image ptn, Sir John Wolfenn on the BBC 1957Sir John Wolfenn was asked by the Home Office to form a mtee to advise on how laws around homosexualy might be reformed. Relig groups, legal reprentativ om the home natns, civic lears and legislators all gave evince to the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra fally submted s report 1957. Around the same perd 1957 a poll nducted by the Daily Mirror, south of the borr, showed a much more even spl where 51% opposed crimalisg homosexualy.

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"So there's also a strong sense that, whether or not gay people are beg apprehend, that actually we fundamentally don't want to publicly state that 's acceptable. " Jam Adair - voice of dissent A Sttish voice who opposed crimalisatn of homosexualy Stland was Jam Adair OBE, a former Procurator Fisl of Glasgow and sat on the Wolfenn mtee and formed the only dissentg voice.

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21st Century StlandImage ptn, Marchg at Edburgh's gay pri para 2016Dr Davis says that, MPs such as Rob Cook were fluential motivatg change Stland through the 1970s and 1980s. However is an unfortable fact that Stland did lag behd other parts of the UK que substantially on s legal posn on homosexualy - a stance which the Sttish ernment now scrib as discrimatn. "Image source, GPAImage ptn, Police Stland are the top twenty of Stonewall's equali x and march regularly gay pri events StlandThe Sttish ernment has plans to troduce a scheme which would allow some gay men to have historil nvictns, no longer nsired illegal, to be removed om crimal rerds.

"Progrs still to be maImage ptn, A Stonewall T-shirt worn at Glasgow Pri 2014Stonewall Stland mpaigns for equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. We provi rmatn and emotnal support to the entire diversy of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny across Stland, cludg queer, tersex, asexual people and all inti unr the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Wh landsp full of drama and wonr, accents so heavy and thick they sent rippl down our sp, and geo men who go full mando unr their kilts, is any wonr gay Stland will always have our hearts?

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Life for LGBT+ young people Stland is “worse now than has been for a long time”, acrdg to a report that highlights growg ncerns about homophobia public spac, bullyg schools and transphobic media five-yearly report om the mpaigng and advocy group LGBT Youth Stland found a sharp crease rponnts who believe that Stland is a good place for LGBTI young people to live, fallg om 81% 2017 to 65% 2022 and the first drop the figure for 15 was also a signifint crease those who believe that homophobia and transphobia is a “big problem” Stland sce the last survey was unrtaken 2017 – risg om 11% to 25% and 49% to 69% Life Stland report, first veloped 2007 and fund by the Sttish ernment, offers a snapshot of how young LGBT+ Sts experience a range of issu and servic, and this year showed an pecially strong reprentatn of participants who intify as transgenr.

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But polil engagement remaed extremely high: 94% of those eligible to vote said they did up to First Edn, our ee daily newsletter – every weekday morng at 7amPrentg the rults, Dr Kathleen Cronie, rearch officer for LGBT Youth Stland, said: “Rpons dite that homophobia and transphobia are on the rise and that biphobia remas a problem, for example wh upl holdg hands public attractg star and ments, feelg unsafe public areas like public transport, and the difficulty faced navigatg a plex onle environment.

A plete n of Gay Stland n be found at the Natnal Library of Stland and an almost plete n n also be found at Lothian Health Servic Archive the llectn of the Lothian Gay and Lbian Swchboard.

For the most part, Stland is extremely Gay iendly, welg and feelg like a b of a “black-sheep” self, Stland unrstands of feelg of beg out of the ma-stream. For s size, Edburgh has a lorful, vibrant Gay scene wh the “Gayborhood” near cy center at the north end of Leh Street, Broughton Street/Pirdy Place an area known lolly as “The Pk Triangle” (why pk?

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There are many fe “Gay iendly” hotels and rtrants Edburgh and when I chose where to hoe my last group of guts “The Balmoral Hotel” was sheer perfectn. Glasgow’s “Gayborhood” is the chic Merchant Cy the eastern part of the central part of the cy and the Gay scene revolv around the hip bars and f this smopolan area. Gleneagl stands alone many ways and most Gay women and men will be overwhelmed as I was wh the sheer elegance of the place and attentn to tail, offerg more unique activy than is imagable.

THE ROYAL YACHT BRITANNIA: Home to Her Majty the Queen and her fay for over 40 years and sailg over one ln around the world, the floatg palace is now berthed Edburgh and is a total “Gay mt-see”. This may e as a surprise om a untry where male homosexualy was illegal until as recently as 1967, and where gay marriage ntu to ffle right-wgers, swivel-eyed or otherwise.

We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mentn mt go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharg (1969), a swgg slice of the 60s that hted at terracial homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release list should really be a Top 11 – the omissn of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first Brish film to feature a gay kiss, is borrle excable.

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Tom Shkolnik’s betifully observed The Comedian (2012), which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomethg (Edward Hogg) tri to make as a standup the pal, also narrowly missed cln.

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A few d homosexuals n be found  Aled Hchck’s early work (check out the swishy drsmaker 1925’s The Pleasure Garn), while Ivor Novello’s films play up the flamboyant star’s androgyny, playg very odd, allegedly heterosexual men  The Lodger (1926) and The Man whout Dire (1923). The ma tr may be straight, but the mera’s love of Pl Robon’s torso – the film was directed and produced by gay men – hts at an even more taboo love story.

Although ma at a time when homosexualy was unmentnable on screen, Hale’s gtur and waspish livery clearly the character as not the marryg kd. Victim (1961)Dirk Bogar, an actor who never acknowledged the mours of his homosexualy durg his lifetime, took a real reer risk playg a lawyer who, followg a strg of blackmail attempts agast gay men, begs to realise his own sexualy. Victim was released four years after the publitn of the Wolfenn report, a paper which remend that male homosexualy no longer be regard as a crimal offence.

It took another 10 years before partial crimalisatn took effect wh the Sexual Offenc act 1967, which allowed homosexual acts, private, between two men over the age of 21 – many feel Basil Dearn’s film helped liberalise attus and pave the way towards tolerance towards gay people. The Leather Boys (1964)The Brish ‘kchen sk’ dramas, foced around workg-class liv, that prevailed the late 50s and early 60s ocsnally ntaed sympathetic gay characters, such as Murray Melv’s stunt  A Taste of Honey (1961) and Cicely Courtneidge’s ageg actor  The L-shaped Room (1962). A newlywed (Col Campbell) havg marriage problems fds pe through mararie wh a biker gang – and don’t realise that his dynamic and fatly misogynist bt iend (Dudley Sutton) is gay.

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The last scene, set a gay bar, featur a nga le of unlikable stereotyp, but at least Sutton across more sympathetilly than Ra Thgham, playg Campbell’s shrewish wife. Sebastiane (1976)Few films outsi gay porn feature as much male flh as Sebastiane, the feature but of Derek Jarman (-directed by Pl Hums).

Some praised for s realistic portrayal of a gay teacher unsuccsfully seekg a lovg relatnship the newly sexually liberated clubs of London. Now Nighthawks n be re-evaluated as an valuable time psule of the late 1970s gay scene, the liberated perd between crimalisatn and the outbreak of AIDS.

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Ken Robertson is very good as the antihero, pecially the film’s bt scene, when the teacher out to his homophobic class and nonts their prejudic. Homosexualy is jt one of the topics vered  Hanif Kureishi’s amb, Osr-nomated screenplay, which also tak on racism, culture clash, and the state of Thatcher’s Bra.

The murr of a gay man triggers an avalanche of trouble for two black pirate rad DJs, one of whom starts a relatnship wh a whe, gay punk. Betiful Thg (1996)This favoure remas one of the sweett of all gay films, tellg the story of two troubled boys – one bullied at school, the other at home – who fd love each other’s arms.

It’s a super play, but the film jt about tmps , thanks pecially to the performanc – Glen Berry retired om actg, Stt Neal played another gay role  The Bill, while the scene-stealg Lda Henry beme a fixture on Bad Girls and EastEnrs. "Then I will be gog and out of the hospal regularly to do var tts to see how i react to ."The trial, EHVA PO1, is beg n by specialists London at the St Stephen's Centre and Wtmster Hospal as well as wh partner s Europe.Image source, Dan HarryImage ptn, Dan Harry marched wh Terrence Higgs tst at London pri this year to raise awarens of their work to end HIVMr Harry said that due to the lack of tn school he was left anx about HIV and left him sred to e out as gay. So I'm happy I n brg awarens to this trial."Mr Harry also told Good Morng Stland that his profile has allowed him to she a light on the work of the doctors volved the trial."There is a misnceptn around HIV, still predomately affects gay men the UK but actually the implitns this vacce uld have is on a more global sle," he said."Especially like third world untri where HIV is more prevalent s very much a ground-breakg trial and I'm very proud to be a part of ."More on this story.