Gay Men, We Have a Drkg Problem

Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• SAVAGE LOVE EXTRA: GAY CHILDREN AND PISS-DRKERS
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• GAY BOY DRINKS
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• GAY MEN, WE HAVE A DRKG PROBLEM
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• CASE STUDY: "GAY" W
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?

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. 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. 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. “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.

SAVAGE LOVE EXTRA: GAY CHILDREN AND PISS-DRKERS

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. Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Gay bars have long been a staple of queer mung, anizg, prottg, and of urse hookg up, but alhol-foced environments aren’t ial for a sizable facet of a muny that also fac creased risk of addictn and substance abe f and bookstor have also long been a large part of our history, of urse, but they’ve also often been harr to sta than nightlife venu, pecially nsirg how much alhol brands spend on urtg the valuable pk dollar. ""The more spac we have that are not centered around an activy, that you don't have to give a reason for beg there, that's a revolutnary thg, " Bman revolutnary, Hersh suggts, as gay bars. Leave the term "abe" for those who serve DissenterI jt wanted to mend you on the superb advice that you gave the lady who is worried about hidg her nephew's homosexualy om her brother.

Perhaps young nephew isn't even genr-inty challenged, he jt lik the really fun—and powerful—parts about beg a of self-rpectg gay men never thought of puttg on makp and dancg to showtun. But what has surprised me is the number of our liberal, open-md, non-homophobic iends whose reactn when we mentn this is that "no one uld possibly know at age 5 what their sexual orientatn uld be. However, this time I thk you really blew , primarily bee you remend dishonty and were right on when you said that the homophobic father was endangerg his relatnship wh his son.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Assumg someone is gay and not possibly transgenred when fact they are transgenred n e jt as much harm as assumg that they are straight when fact they are gay. Auntie Mame openly adms she supports her claim on mere superficial evince, but Uncle Danny's sage wisdom attts "there's a 99 percent chance your nephew is gay"—are you fuckg kiddg? Or maybe even more likely, an uncle that wish he were an nt, who's dog everythg he n to turn the nephew gay and somehow make himself more palatable to the fay.

She told me she loved me even if I was straight, and she had a feelg I'm gay, but she wanted me to figure immediate fay still stggl wh me beg gay, but 's my life and I am livg the way I you for the wonrful advice you gave Auntie 'm wrg rponse to Auntie Mame, who thks her 5-year-old nephew is gay and his father is forbiddg "gay play, " e. It wasn't until after the shoppg expedn that his mother realized—after a iend poted out—that her son had nvced her to buy him a matchg at, hat, and was mortified that she was "duped" to lettg his "gay" tennci get away om her. He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.

GAY BOY DRINKS

Inlitely phemized as a "wrkle room, " Thumpers appeals largely to gay elrs, boastg not only a full-service bar, but also an upsle dg room and performanc by jazz pianists. The subject's first "gay drk" of the night was a Grape Nehi (2 oz vodka, 2 oz raspberry liqur, lemon, blend wh ice), given an extra splash of gay by our acmodatg bartenr, who crowned the drk wh a spear of marascho cherri and a paper umbrella. As he imbibed drk number two--a Cabana Boy Rum Sunset (2 oz Cabana Boy m, 4 oz lemon-lime soda), scribed as "really, really sweet"--he gamely shared his "gayt" memori om childhood, om roller-skatg to the Village People to his once-passnate love for N.

Wh gay drk number two down the hatch, the subject had bee noticeably tipsier; as we left Thumpers, he was sg broadly, and once on the street, he generoly gave a buck to a one-legged hobo. As we walked to our send statn, I brought up the topic of homosexualy, and got a dose of booze-fueled ndor: "I've sucked some dick, " the subject announced, gog on to reunt his llege-era dallianc wh those of his own sex.

Next we me to the stylish dance club Blu, where the iendly boy-tenr answered my ll for "the gayt drk the hoe" by whippg up an Aquapolan (3 oz orange-lemon aquav, 1 oz Grand Marnier, dash of orange juice, splash of cranberry juice/sour mix), which the subject scribed as "good" and "slhy. " After I got the subject his send Aquapolan, we retired to Blu's roof, where the full impact of the eveng's many "gay drks" beme evint as subject gamely stripped off his shirt (see Figure 9). When subject "Sanep" was aga fully clothed, I led him to our fal gay waterg hole--the legendary Seattle Eagle, where the men are manly, the mic's rockg, and drks are served excsively butch Mason jars.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

The subject was now so toxited that we were talkg eely about a number of ep, profoundly personal topics, all of which revealed nothg about the subject's potential for gayns and are therefore of no value here. Compared to his howlgly dnk fellow subjects (ma to drk everythg om hobo we to "at boy" shots), my gay-drks subject was the mol of rtraed toxitn--speakg at an acceptable volume, punchg no one, pg nowhere. "However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter.

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.

GAY MEN, WE HAVE A DRKG PROBLEM

"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. " In a society where beg homosexual was taboo, not to mentn illegal, those on the LGBT spectm gathered small bars across the untry where they would drk, let down their exterr fens, and miserate wh the people who accepted them for who they really were.

The mic, the style, and the laws agast homosexualy have all changed, but that drk is still to today, s after the first brick was thrown at Stonewall, years after the 1990s brought gay characters to the mastream media, and months after same-sex marriage beme a right to all LGBT Amerins, the fn of gay culture is now limbo. Only problem, however, is that the roundg prence of alhol leadg up to this historic LGBT moment history has given him a b of a drkg no mistake, the lic, grty, and nt history of the gay bar is a betiful one. I cut my teeth on cherry vodka sours well before I turned 21 at a rickety gay bar lled Moby Dicks, sneakg to the si door and tryg not to look the bartenr the eye.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

But there is this notn that by leavg the gay waterg hol and regnizg the stctive nature of bge drkg as you grow up, you are somehow rebg gay culture and "normalizg" to hetero the Slate article "The Gay Bar.

CASE STUDY: "GAY" W

However, this article reprents a popular belief that the substance of the gay ghetto and gay culture is wang jt bee gay bars are no longer the sgular avenu for our liv. Que ankly, the evolutn of morn gay life will only crease the prence of gay culture, as more men and women feel fortable exprsg their inty the way they stead of fightg to keep this boomg bar culture alive, younger generatns are champng new avenu and experienc that allow for gay men and women to navigate other areas of adulthood, wh their LGBT inti firmly tact. And whether you like or not, 's time to take a sober look at the health of the LGBT urse, alhol e and abe isn't unique to gay, bisexual, and trans people, but has e to be one of our most regnizable tras.

But as the CDC stat, alhol and dg e among gay and bisexual men n be a reactn to homophobia, discrimatn, or vlence they experienced due to their sexual orientatn. "This, however, stck a nerve among many people who do not want to see the gay party culture they know watered down for fear of the homogenizatn of what means to be dissentg menter, whose opn was shared by many, wrote rponse, "Drk if you want. To me, actg like a gay man means seekg better for myself and for my muny so that gay children today do not ntue to have higher rat of smokg, drkg, dg abe, and HIV.

My health and the health of the muny I am a part of, however, n means to be gay will forever and always be synonymo wh the fabuloly alternative, the flamboyant, and the queer. We owe to the future generatns of gay men, trans women, and everyone else unr the queer umbrella to not only ga equal rights, but also improve the value and self-worth of the LGBT populatn. 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.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

First, Tmp wh his whole "pee tape" sndal and now Jair Bolsonaro, the homophobic print of Brazil who tweeted an explic vio that featur -- amongst other thgs -- someone a jockstrap havg a b of a shower. Of all the many teemed we-producg regns North Ameri, wtern Sonoma County - particular the area between Healdsburg and the Rsian River rort area - stands out not only for s superb weri and stunng natural scenery, but also for havg a tremendo gay followg. A group of Californian gay we enthiasts created Out the Veyard 2011, “an experiential We Country Event and Travel pany promotg posive LGBT liftyl and offerg exclive, luxury erari and events We Country for the discerng gay traveler and their iends.

As Amerin attus towards gay people have improved - later than most of the Wtern world - the prence of "gays we", always there but largely visible, has bee clearer: not jt the dtry self, but their marketg approach as well.

Acrdg to the Journal of Studi on Alhol and Dgs some 75% of gays and lbians were scribed as "current drkers, " as pared to 68% of bisexuals and 59% of heterosexuals. When Jab’s Creek beme exclive advertiser on the TV-show Friends, Diageo's Blossom Hill reacted by sponsorg Will en Grace, the gay (beloved) TV-seri - at USD 1, 000, 000 for the n of 24 episos (the bottle and glass set pictured on the left uld have been signed for that, but wasn't). "There's no qutn that marketg to the gay muny is different than marketg to, say, ultra-right-wg relig nservativ, but while the labels may change, you n serve them up the same we - 's got nothg to do wh what's ** the bottle.

WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?

" She received hundreds of posive emails rponse to a wery ad nng gay publitns that shows a field of v beg irrigated, wh the risg mist creatg the effect of a rabow. A number of weri have n their natnal ads gay publitns like The Advote and Out, but Clos du Bois was the first to create ads specifilly for gay nsumers and make a staed ph to the gay market, said Michael Wilke of AdRpect. Domae Chandon (the foreign label of Moët & Chandon) unveiled three new variatns of s "Drk " prt mpaign 2001, for the first time targetg the gay muny wh an ad appearg The Advote and Out.

The se scribed s foc this way: “Sommelier is a We Intert style BLOG se targetg the Gay nsumer that go far beyond the basic “We Crique” to tail riche experienc We, Cuise, Travel, Luxury Goods, Art and Mic… all wh a ltle lighthearted risqué mischief.