Gay Water, a new nned cktail, wants to be the anti-Bud Light - East Idaho News

Contents:

• COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
• MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER
• ISLAND HOE STAFF SAYS “KEEP KEY WT GAY”
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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. 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.

ISLAND HOE STAFF SAYS “KEEP KEY WT GAY”

Milk told Baird that he had to get unn jobs for openly gay men and women. 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.”. 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.

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

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.