R's Gay Pri Returns To Copabana Beach | Barron's

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• R'S GAY PRI RETURNS TO COPABANA BEACH
• GAY PRI PARA ON COPABANA BEACH – PICTUR
• THOANDS CELEBRATE R'S GAY PRI PARA ON COPABANA
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

R'S GAY PRI RETURNS TO COPABANA BEACH

Revellers march wh a giant rabow flag durg the annual gay pri para at Copabana beach R Janeiro, Brazil. This heavily-bejewelled drag queen participat the gay pri para stood out among the thoands who packed Copabana beach.

Thoands of revelers danced on Copabana beach Sunday to celebrate R Janeiro's annual gay pri para spe ep fundg cuts by the cy. A man danc durg the Gay Pri Para at Copabana beach, R Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov.

People dance unr the LGBT flag durg the Gay Pri Para at Copabana beach, R Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. Dpe s reputatn as a liberal untry, Brazil has some of Lat Ameri's hight rat of vlence agast gay and transgenr people. People prott agast R's Mayor Marcelo Crivella durg the Gay Pri Para at Copabana beach, R Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov.

GAY PRI PARA ON COPABANA BEACH – PICTUR

(AP Photo/Mro Pimentel) People attend the Gay Pri Para at Copabana beach R Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. (AP Photo/Mro Pimentel) Brazilian sger Val Popozuda attends the Gay Pri Para at Copabana beach R Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov.

THOANDS CELEBRATE R'S GAY PRI PARA ON COPABANA

(AP Photo/Mro Pimentel) People dance durg the Gay Pri Para at Copabana beach, R Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. 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. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.

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

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg. “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.

“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. (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.