Canned Cocktail Gay Water Aims To Right Bud Light's Lack Of LGBTQ+ Support

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• COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
• MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
• CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
• ARE PEOPLE REALLY SELLG ‘PRE-GAY BUD LIGHT’? BEER NTROVERSY PH SAL
• BUD LIGHT PROUDLY SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE AD PARTNERSHIP WH ELLEN
• HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE

One newly lnched pany is releasg “Gay Water” a rponse to the backlash Bud Light suffered after partnerg wh transgenr TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney. Twelve ns of Gay Water n be purchased onle for a total of $36. The pany also sells “Gay Water” tumblers and tcker hats.

When you really thk about, how many products n you thk about that have ‘gay’ the tle?

MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

“gay [sic] water has always been a lloquialism for vodka soda, so surprise, that’s our re product. However, we see ourselv as a liftyle brand here to brg back the origal fn of the word gay by puttg our products everywhere – your rtrant, your bar, your liquor store, your grocery store, and your home.

” Canned cktail ‘Gay Water’ aims to sh on Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney disaster — New York Post (@nypost) July 21, 2023 The pany’s founr, Spencer Hodson, told the New York Post that the backlash Bud Light suffered after s cisn to partner wh Mulvaney spir him to be more unapologetic his pro-LGBT stance. *Photo cred: Gay Water via Instagram.

Where Bud Light sks, Gay Water ris to the ocsn.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

On Thursday, the brightly-packaged nned alholic beverage Gay Water lnched s way to happy hours.

Named after the nickname given to the vodka and soda bo that’s equently orred gay bars, Gay Water wants to be the drk of choice for the queer muny. Spencer Hodson, a gay man, created the product wh the LGBTQ+ muny md.

RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?

Hodson created Gay Water to be out, loud, and proud.

And while Gay Water’s four sugar-ee flavors, watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu, n be purchased select retailers, Gay Water’s reach is expand through onle sal.

CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self.

Sometim great ias start om vatn nversatns, as did the creatn of Gay Water.

Wh that, Hodson believ that ’s “exactly the right time” to enter Gay Water to the market.

ARE PEOPLE REALLY SELLG ‘PRE-GAY BUD LIGHT’? BEER NTROVERSY PH SAL

Gay Water is here to turn the tis wh a premixed cktail that was tentnally signed for everyone. Baird, notably, reached out to his gay neighbors on Castro Street, key among them a radil labor activist named Howard Wallace and a lol mera-shop owner and aspirg polician, Harvey Milk. Milk told Baird that he had to get unn jobs for openly gay men and women.

BUD LIGHT PROUDLY SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE AD PARTNERSHIP WH ELLEN

Baird agreed to both, and a historic gay–labor aln was born. And say ‘Hey, get rid of that sh!’ ” Owners and patrons plied, and Coors beme a rare sight at gay bars and clubs.

By the 1990s, Joe and other fay members were also lked to Moral Majory and anti-gay, fay-valu ndidat and . As one boytt leaflet noted 1997, “When you support Coors, they fight agast your rights.” It was, the leaflet said, “Trickle Down Homophobia.”. As Joe’s brother Bill put a 1977 meetg wh gay activists Los Angel, “We found out that the gay muny was havg a boytt of our product, and this was the first time that we knew there was a very well-fed gay muny.”.

HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

In 1979 Coors add sexual orientatn to s nondiscrimatn clse and began payg for ads gay publitns.

Many gay activists refed to see the efforts as anythg more than disgenuo payoffs and have vigoroly protted Coors’ sponsorships over the years.

In 1979, when the pany sought to open a send brewery on the East Coast, Virgia’s Shenandoah Valley, lols worried that their home would bee “a haven for homosexuals” bee of Coors’ advertisg mpaigns. It ultimately took the pany two years to secure the land for s new brewery, all while litely balancg overtur to both nservativ and gay nsumers. As one nsultg firm nclud after nng a seri of foc groups 1988, most queer beer drkers uld not “intify any scenar unr which they would beg to drk [Coors] products.” It simply wasn’t worth to try to w them over, suggted the firm: “The gay muny’s negative feelgs n ep.” As a rult, the nsumers flocked to imports like Corona and Heeken, as well as domtics like Budweiser—and y, Bud Light.