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• OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERLOG INPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCH'GMA' DEALS & STEALS ON FEEL-GOOD FDS, PART 1CULTUREJUNE 23, 2021WHO IS MAKG LGBTQ+ HISTORY RIGHT NOW: GMA INSPIRATN LIST 2021OUT LOUDWHAT 'S REALLY LIKE AS A TRANSGENR PERSON TO GET MEDIL REJUNE 28, 2021PRI STYLE THROUGH THE YEARS: FTIVE FASHN, BETY AND MOREJUNE 27, 2022‘RUPL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS’ DISCS UP-AND-G DRAG ARTISTS WHO SPIRE THEM JUNE 28, 2021LGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTLGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAG, FILENFL PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY
• GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
• BEYOND ‘DON’T SAY GAY': OTHER STAT SEEK TO LIM LGBTQ YOUTH, TEACHG
• THE NSTUTNAL PROBLEM WH FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FLORIDA, GO TO ERNOR
• TOP FIVE PROPOSAL IAS FOR GAY MEN

OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERLOG INPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCH'GMA' DEALS & STEALS ON FEEL-GOOD FDS, PART 1CULTUREJUNE 23, 2021WHO IS MAKG LGBTQ+ HISTORY RIGHT NOW: GMA INSPIRATN LIST 2021OUT LOUDWHAT 'S REALLY LIKE AS A TRANSGENR PERSON TO GET MEDIL REJUNE 28, 2021PRI STYLE THROUGH THE YEARS: FTIVE FASHN, BETY AND MOREJUNE 27, 2022‘RUPL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS’ DISCS UP-AND-G DRAG ARTISTS WHO SPIRE THEM JUNE 28, 2021LGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTLGBTQ+ ISSU AT THE FOREONTETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAG, FILENFL PLAYER CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY

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A gay uple Brazil also planned on proposg to each other at the same moment. "I don't feel like a gay-rights symbol. Gay.

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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.

BEYOND ‘DON’T SAY GAY': OTHER STAT SEEK TO LIM LGBTQ YOUTH, TEACHG

“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.

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.”.

THE NSTUTNAL PROBLEM WH FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

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.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FLORIDA, GO TO ERNOR

“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. 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.

The proposal is now facg backlash om lol LGBTQ bill b language om Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn law, dubbed by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" law, and legislatn that seeks to lim tn on race proposed by Republins some bill stat that "curriculum or stctnal materials on sexual orientatn or genr inty" would be banned classrooms startg om krgarten through third gra.

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TOP FIVE PROPOSAL IAS FOR GAY MEN

"Oh's Don't Say Gay bill is yet another sid attempt to chill and censor ee speech the classroom. “One of the old accatns agast our muni, and I thk this fs to this, is that mental health screengs are this tool to be ed to fd out who might be gay, and somehow the tools might be ed to help solidify people to genr inti or sexual orientatns that aren’t cisgenr, ” he said. ATennseebill would prohib schools om adoptg or g textbooks or materials “that promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) issu or liftyl.

”A Kansasparent-rights and curriculum transparency proposal, as troduced, would have prevented both public and private enti om g materials that clud pictns of homosexualy.