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Contents:

• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• ‘THIS MUNY CHANGED MY LIFE’ ARSEBLOG NEWS TALKS TO GAY GOONERS FOR PRI
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• PROUD LILYWH AND GAY GOONERS FLY (RABOW) FLAG FOR LGBT FOOTBALL FANS
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
• RABOW LAC: GAY GOONERS -CHAIR GRATEFUL FOR CLUB'S YEAR-ROUND SUPPORT AHEAD OF ARSENAL VS NEWSTLE MATCH
• ARSENAL’S GAY GOONERS AMONG ENGLISH LGBT SOCCER FAN GROUPS PHG FOR CLN

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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. 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. “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.

‘THIS MUNY CHANGED MY LIFE’ ARSEBLOG NEWS TALKS TO GAY GOONERS FOR PRI

“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. From her admiratn of the GayGooners and the welg environment of women’s football, to the importance of allyship and providg support for others.

Earlier this season, I was readg the matchday programme at the Emirat and there was a feature about the GayGooners beg the first and largt LGBTQ+ football supporters' group England. I thk ’s amazg, you’ve got so many supporters all around the world who adore Arsenal, so wh Arsenal as a full supporter of the LGBTQ+ Pri Month and the GayGooners, then I thk has and will ntue to change the mds of a lot of people. “There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform.

MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

(Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) Through the Freaky Boiz’s high-energy live performanc and slick raps over stmentals sure to make you dance, they’re rvg their own lane hip-hop and treatg dienc to mic that highlights Black gay joy, datg adventur and wo and empowerg antiexploatn bops tailor-ma for the digal age like “Cash App.

”“They’re tryg to teach kids that beg gay is wrong and that’s phg 50 years backwards om the work of people who started the Pri para like Marsha P. Gay Gooners were the first official LGBT Supporters Club English football and, wh over 1, 600 members currently, they are the largt the untry. Tim Stillman sat down wh -chair Carl Fearn and members Selena Chambers and Lucy about why Gay Gooners remas such a val muny for LGBT Arsenal fans.

Last season, the club started playg a vio the stadium featurg several members of Gay Gooners, as well as Aaron Ramsdale and Kim Ltle, outlg a zero-tolerance approach to homophobic abe the stadium. “I was a pub jt when stadiums re-opened after vid and I heard some horrible homophobic and antisemic abe and the landlord said they didn’t really know how to handle .

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

“The suici rate among the LGBT muny is far higher than the general populatn, pecially among young gay men and a lot of that is due to that ntuo prsure. “So that homophobic chant or ment might seem like banter but for an LGBT person that’s nstant, that’s another thg to al wh, then there’s another a few mut later, then you read somethg onle or the paper and that prsure builds and people start to thk ‘if people really hate me that much what’s the pot?

Lonels is an issue for LGBT people and when you are alone and you are alg wh that, n lead to bad thgs and that’s another one of the reasons we really need a muny like Gay Gooners. However, Carl is eager to pot out that the Gay Gooners is not somehow exotic nor are the members different om any other Arsenal fans. While the assumptn persists that society gradually liberalis over time, Carl says that homophobia the stands is very much a live issue.

PROUD LILYWH AND GAY GOONERS FLY (RABOW) FLAG FOR LGBT FOOTBALL FANS

” (Brighton is one of the ci wh the hight gay populatn Bra and Brighton fans have long been targeted wh homophobic abe om opposg fans). By the time you read this, Arsenal will probably have tweeted about Gay Gooners and London Pri, the annual LGBT ftival central London.

Selena says the number of gay women who both play and watch women’s football means that the explosn of the women’s game has led to a greater number of lbian members jog the GGs.

“The way the women’s game has explod this year, we have been able to brg a lot of fans om there so a lot joed this year om the women’s game and now we have a really strong followg of Gay Gooners at the women’s gam gam home and away.

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

It’s amazg to have those gay rolemols on the pch and the stands and ’s probably even more amazg for younger gay female fans to really have the high-profile gay women reprentg their club, who are so open about . “I get why don’t happen bee there would probably be issu the stands but I really wish our gay male fans had some of that, those rolemols the game who are jt like them and out about . Our ctomised double-cker float took to the streets of the pal to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pri month wh staff, supporters and our GayGooners supporters group a para that was attend by over 30, 000 people.

RABOW LAC: GAY GOONERS -CHAIR GRATEFUL FOR CLUB'S YEAR-ROUND SUPPORT AHEAD OF ARSENAL VS NEWSTLE MATCH

GayGooners celebrated their tenth anniversary this Febary and first marched the pal's Pri para 2013 - the first LGBTQ+ supporters group UK football to do so. For Lisa, adorned an LGBTQ+ Pri pe whilst wavg an Arsenal flag, marchg wh the GayGooners was an unfettable experience: "From beg a Junr Gunner when I was a ltle kid to g out, my fay acceptg me and knowg that there was a group out there that still loved me, that I uld still be a part of - that meant everythg.

Once the para had e to a close on Saturday afternoon, Hannah Stanisls gave an impassned performance of a poem they had wrten ont of a sea of fellow GayGooners.

ARSENAL’S GAY GOONERS AMONG ENGLISH LGBT SOCCER FAN GROUPS PHG FOR CLN

Last weekend, the club alongsi our LGBTQ+ supporters’ group, GayGooners, celebrated Pri by participatg a seri of events, culmatg the Pri In London Para, wh the highlights available to view above. After their open-top, double-cker float received a special send off om Mikel Arteta and some of our men’s first-team squad, the GayGooners partied alongsi club lleagu and Arsenal Women’s players Jen Beattie, Jordan Nobbs and Cal Foord, as they ma their way through the packed, lourful streets to soak up the ftivi.