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Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• U.S. DIPLOMAT STICKS IT TO ANTI-GAY PRIME MISTER—WH A HUGE PRI PARTY
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• CHIGO BLACKHAWKS DCH PRI JERSEYS, BLAME RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAWS
• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• GAY FRIENDLY EVENTS AND ATTRACTNS AROUND THE RSIAN RIVER
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• RSIA'S FIRST EVER GAY PRI BANNED WH 24 HOURS OF BEG ANNOUNCED
• RSIAN CY ALLOWS GAY PRI PARA THEN BANS ‘BEE CHILDREN MIGHT SEE ’
• IN SERMON, RSIAN CHURCH LEAR KIRILL LKS UKRAE WAR WH GAY PRI PARA
• RSIA BANS MOSW GAY PRI CELEBRATNS FOR 100 YEARS

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

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.

U.S. DIPLOMAT STICKS IT TO ANTI-GAY PRIME MISTER—WH A HUGE PRI PARTY

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“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.

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

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.

CHIGO BLACKHAWKS DCH PRI JERSEYS, BLAME RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAWS

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.

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. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. Sce his arrival Budapt last year, the gay human rights lawyer has been relentlsly cricized by the untry’s state-ntrolled media for what they perceive as his provotive propagandizg of progrsive Wtern valu to a people who do not share weekend plans seem likely to spark another round of vective.

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

The retail cha said was dog so pliance wh a 2021 so-lled “child protectn” law which banned the “display and promotn of homosexualy” to children unr the age of 18.

GAY FRIENDLY EVENTS AND ATTRACTNS AROUND THE RSIAN RIVER

Flawls Sha, Miss Gay Pri of Portland 2023, is exced for the muny to gather for the ftivi — pecially after the COVID-19 panmic. A 53-year-old woman has been arrted, police said, after an activist told a crowd at a trans pri event to punch genr-cril people the the march London on July 8, an activist was filmed apparently llg for protters to “punch Terfs the face” Metropolan Police said a woman had now been arrted on spicn of cement to vlence Wtmster after a vio of the cint was wily shared on social is an abbreviatn for “trans-exclnary radil femist”, a term ed to scribe people who believe that a trans woman’s genr inty is the vio, the activist was apparently seen tellg a cheerg crowd: “I was gog to e here and be really fluffy, be really nice and be really lovely and queer and gay and lgh. Unr Put, Rsia has bee more and more anti-gay, passg several laws that rtrict rights for LGBTQ people.

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Protters broke through a police rdon to stop the Pri eventUp to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters stormed a gay pri ftival Geia's pal Tbilisi on Saturday, forcg s right-wg protters, who clud Orthodox Christian clergy, scuffled wh police, shed the stage and burned rabow anisers and Geia's print blamed anti-LGBT hate speech that preced the event, and said the police had failed to protect ftival-goers.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

Homophobia remas rife Geia.

Up to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters broke up a Gay Pri ftival the Geian pal, Tbilisi, on July 8, scufflg wh police and stroyg props, cludg rabow flags and plards, though there were no reports of juri. The proposals prohib sharg posive and even ntral rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, and publicly displayg non-heterosexual orientatns, wh hefty f for nonpliance. The origal “gay propaganda” ban, troduced 2013, purported to protect children om “propaganda, ” broadly fed to mean any posive or ntral pictn or discsn of non-heterosexual relatns.

The draft legislatn classifi displays of non-heterosexual relatns or orientatn as “rmatn harmful to children’s health and velopment” and provis that webs and other onle sourc hostg rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people n be blocked. “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways, ” said Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

RSIA'S FIRST EVER GAY PRI BANNED WH 24 HOURS OF BEG ANNOUNCED

The 2013 “gay propaganda, ” law has been extensively ed by the ernment to stifle pro-LGBT events and to shutdown anizatns and onle media.

“The proposed legislatn and the origal ‘gay propaganda’ ban have no place any society and belong the trash.

RSIAN CY ALLOWS GAY PRI PARA THEN BANS ‘BEE CHILDREN MIGHT SEE ’

Th were two of my primary profsnal terts joed: I am workg on a book about the history of gay Washgton, and my day job nsists of analyzg transatlantic relatns. One don’t have to be a supporter of same-sex marriage or gay adoptn or any other ntent social issue to believe that the right of people to monstrate and speak their md is sacrosanct a mocratic society. While gay-rights monstratns the Baltics were once met wh fec-flgg unterprotters 2006, this month’s celebratn was unmarked by any such ugls.

IN SERMON, RSIAN CHURCH LEAR KIRILL LKS UKRAE WAR WH GAY PRI PARA

All I saw were sg fac, happy fai and solidary among people gay and straight.

RSIA BANS MOSW GAY PRI CELEBRATNS FOR 100 YEARS

Sce 2013, when the Rsian Duma unanimoly passed a law prohibg the “promotn of nontradnal sexual relatns” to mors, has been illegal for any Rsian—homosexual or heterosexual—to speak posively about gay people or their rights. ) Rsians who advote gay rights are arrted and fed, LGBTQ webs are blocked, and a steady exod of gay people has trickled out of Rsia over the past six years.

Embolned by the Kreml, Chechnya’s ernment has once aga unleashed a pogrom agast gay men.