Company Go Full-On Bud Light Wh ‘Gay Water’ Release

DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?
PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA
@KUOSROOLOX LIGHT GAY AS SH I WOULD HAVE GONE CRAZY DAILY ATH NOTE @ATHAR
COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
HOWARD STERN AND ROSIE O’DONNELL SLAM KID ROCK FOR SHOOTG BUD LIGHT CANS, SHOW SUPPORT FOR DYLAN MULVANEY: ‘GAY PEOPLE DRK BEER, TOO’
RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
RON DESANTIS CAN'T HELP HIMSELF, LNCH INQUIRY INTO BUD LIGHT FOR AD WH TRANS ACTRSIF YOU THOUGHT DISNEY WAS ENOUGH TO OCCUPY THE FLORIDA ERNOR, PLEASE THK AGA.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 21, 2023RON DESANTIS MPAIGNS ANKENY, IOWA JULY 15.STT OLSON/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS IS A BULLY. AND LIKE MANY BULLI, ALL THE BLTER AND CHT-PUFFG MOSTLY SERV TO BETRAY HIS OWN GLARG AQUACY—NAMELY, THAT HE’S AN ABSURD WEIRDO WHOSE AMBNS FAR EXCEED HIS APTUS. CASE POT: THE FLORIDA ERNOR’S THREAT TO BEG AN “QUIRY” TO BUD LIGHT’S QUICKLY-ABANDONED MARKETG MPAIGN FEATURG TRANSGENR SOCIAL MEDIA STAR DYLAN MULVANEY.“WE BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL LIKE THAT, YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWG YOUR FIDUCIARY DUTY,” DESANTIS TOLD FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS THURSDAY EVENG, ANNOUNCG PLANS TO VTIGATE THE BEER BRAND’S PARENT PANY, AB INBEV. “IT ULD BE SOMETHG THAT LEADS TO A RIVATIVE LAWSU FILED ON BEHALF OF THE SHAREHOLRS OF THE FLORIDA PENSN FUND, BEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE’S GOTTA BE PENALTI FOR WHEN YOU PUT BS ASI TO FOC ON YOUR SOCIAL AGENDA AT THE EXPENSE OF HARDWORKG PEOPLE.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE IA—WHICH DESANTIS ALSO RAISED A LETTER THURSDAY TO FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF ADMISTRATN—IS SO PATENTLY STUPID THAT BARELY SERV A FULL REUNTG. SO THE GIST IS THIS: BACK APRIL, BUD LIGHT PARTNERED WH MULVANEY FOR A MARKETG MPAIGN, WHICH QUICKLY ABANDONED AFTER NSERVATIV THREW A TANTM. DPE THROWG MULVANEY UNR THE B, BUD LIGHT HAS NTUED TO SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE RIGHT, AND HAS STGGLED TO REGA S SAL NUMBERS. ACRDG TO DESANTIS, THAT DIP SAL—WHICH NSERVATIV THEMSELV BROUGHT ABOUT—MAY MEAN THE PANY “BREACHED LEGAL DUTI OWED TO S SHAREHOLRS.”“ALL OPTNS ARE ON THE TABLE,” DESANTIS WROTE, ACCG THE PANY OF “VIRTUE SIGNALG.”IF THIS IDTIC “QUIRY” TO THE BEER PANY SOUNDS FAIAR, ’S PERHAPS BEE TEXAS SENATOR TED CZ—A FAILED GOP PRINTIAL NDIDATE WHOSE RANKS DESANTIS SEEMS POISED TO JO—ALREADY ANNOUNCED A PROBE OF HIS OWN TO THIS MATTER OF GRAVE NATNAL IMPORT BACK MAY. SO NOT ONLY IS THIS PERFORMANCE BY DESANTIS STUPID; ’S ALSO UNORIGAL.WHICH ISN’T SURPRISG: MUCH OF DESANTIS’S ACT IS BORROWED OM DONALD TMP. AND EVEN ONE OF HIS MOST HIGH-PROFILE STUNTS—SENDG MIGRANTS TO BLUE ENCLAV (I.E., G HUMAN BEGS AS PAWNS TO PROTT JOE BIN’S BORR POLICI)—WAS CRIBBED OM THE GREG ABBOTT PLAYBOOK. DESANTIS’S TRANSFORMATN OF FLORIDA TO A PETRI DISH OF FAR-RIGHT POLICY MAY HAVE MA HIM A NATNAL FIGURE. BUT THAT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE UP FOR HIS SIGNIFINT FICIENCI AS A NATNAL NDIDATE—CLUDG, BUT NOT LIMED TO, HIS LACK OF ANYTHG APPROXIMATG PERSONALY OR CHARISMA.THAT’S LEFT HIM WH NOTHG BUT CULTURE WAR. IT MAY PLAY WH ANY MEMBERS OF THE VERY-ONLE RIGHT STILL THKG ABOUT BUD LIGHT, BUT IS MORE LIKELY TO NFE ANYONE WHO LOGGED OFF OM THIS ANE NTROVERSY MONTHS AGO. PERHAPS WILL EVEN IRK REPUBLINS WHO DON’T LIKE THE IA OF ERNMENT TRYG TO EXERT NTROL OVER RPORATNS’ AD MPAIGNS, OR AT LEAST THOSE WHO WOULD PREFER THEIR PARTY LEARS FOC ON SOMETHG OTHER THAN PISSG NTTS WH BUD LIGHT AND DISNEY, THE LATTER OF WHICH DESANTIS HAS BEEN FDG WH FOR MORE THAN A YEAR OVER S THEN-CEO’S RELUCTANT, D-CRICISM OF FLORIDA’S HIO “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW.BETWEEN THAT DISNEY DT-UP AND HIS PRINTIAL BID, MAY BE HARD FOR DESANTIS TO FD THE TIME TO BATTLE BUD LIGHT. BUT ’S POSSIBLE HIS SCHLE ULD BE EEG UP PRETTY SOON, BASED ON RECENT REPORTS OUT OF HIS FLOUNRG RACE FOR THE GOP NOD: “THE ENTIRE MPAIGN IS ON THE BRK,” A SOURCE FAIAR WH THE MATTER TOLD NBC NEWS AFTER DESANTIS FIRED ABOUT A DOZEN STAFFERS THIS WEEK. “I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHG LIKE .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMEGHAN MARKLE WILL BE JOG PRCE HARRY GERMANY FOR THE INVICT GAMBY ER VANRHOOFTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYERIC LUTZ
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COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE

DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?

* light was gay tweet *

On April 6, 2023, Bud Light beer's Twter acunt said hated gays and trans people and then asked people to buy the beverage. On April 6, 2023, a Twter er wh the handle @BUD_LIGHT claimed the beer brand hated gays and trans people and then asked people to buy the beer.

PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA

Hi, gays. Happy Pri! We are sashayg away wh Pri Tweets®. * light was gay tweet *

"We hate gays and trans people now. “I’m not bothered by gay people or transsexual people. “Disney works to ph a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’…Parents should keep that md before cidg whether to take their kids to see ‘Lightyear, ’” tweeted Ben Shapiro, one of the most popular right-wg podst hosts.

But the foc of the attacks has sce shifted om schools, evolvg to much broar attacks on LGBTQ+ people all public a Townhall lumn tled “When a Kiss Is Not Jt a Kiss, ” talk rad host Larry O’Connor phed back agast a Perez Hilton tweet notg that Lightyear is “banned multiple untri over a gay kiss.

That’s some mment to homophobia.

@KUOSROOLOX LIGHT GAY AS SH I WOULD HAVE GONE CRAZY DAILY ATH NOTE @ATHAR

The former print tweeted the msage after the urt led that gay and transgenr people were protected agast employment discrimatn. * light was gay tweet *

“The real problem the Church that everyone se and few will say out loud: gay prits. That same day, a group of Proud Boys stormed a California library’s drag queen story hour and began hurlg anti-trans and antigay slurs at atten.

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.

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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? “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. 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.

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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.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

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

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“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.

RON DESANTIS CAN'T HELP HIMSELF, LNCH INQUIRY INTO BUD LIGHT FOR AD WH TRANS ACTRSIF YOU THOUGHT DISNEY WAS ENOUGH TO OCCUPY THE FLORIDA ERNOR, PLEASE THK AGA.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 21, 2023RON DESANTIS MPAIGNS ANKENY, IOWA JULY 15.STT OLSON/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS IS A BULLY. AND LIKE MANY BULLI, ALL THE BLTER AND CHT-PUFFG MOSTLY SERV TO BETRAY HIS OWN GLARG AQUACY—NAMELY, THAT HE’S AN ABSURD WEIRDO WHOSE AMBNS FAR EXCEED HIS APTUS. CASE POT: THE FLORIDA ERNOR’S THREAT TO BEG AN “QUIRY” TO BUD LIGHT’S QUICKLY-ABANDONED MARKETG MPAIGN FEATURG TRANSGENR SOCIAL MEDIA STAR DYLAN MULVANEY.“WE BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL LIKE THAT, YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWG YOUR FIDUCIARY DUTY,” DESANTIS TOLD FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS THURSDAY EVENG, ANNOUNCG PLANS TO VTIGATE THE BEER BRAND’S PARENT PANY, AB INBEV. “IT ULD BE SOMETHG THAT LEADS TO A RIVATIVE LAWSU FILED ON BEHALF OF THE SHAREHOLRS OF THE FLORIDA PENSN FUND, BEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE’S GOTTA BE PENALTI FOR WHEN YOU PUT BS ASI TO FOC ON YOUR SOCIAL AGENDA AT THE EXPENSE OF HARDWORKG PEOPLE.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE IA—WHICH DESANTIS ALSO RAISED A LETTER THURSDAY TO FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF ADMISTRATN—IS SO PATENTLY STUPID THAT BARELY SERV A FULL REUNTG. SO THE GIST IS THIS: BACK APRIL, BUD LIGHT PARTNERED WH MULVANEY FOR A MARKETG MPAIGN, WHICH QUICKLY ABANDONED AFTER NSERVATIV THREW A TANTM. DPE THROWG MULVANEY UNR THE B, BUD LIGHT HAS NTUED TO SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE RIGHT, AND HAS STGGLED TO REGA S SAL NUMBERS. ACRDG TO DESANTIS, THAT DIP SAL—WHICH NSERVATIV THEMSELV BROUGHT ABOUT—MAY MEAN THE PANY “BREACHED LEGAL DUTI OWED TO S SHAREHOLRS.”“ALL OPTNS ARE ON THE TABLE,” DESANTIS WROTE, ACCG THE PANY OF “VIRTUE SIGNALG.”IF THIS IDTIC “QUIRY” TO THE BEER PANY SOUNDS FAIAR, ’S PERHAPS BEE TEXAS SENATOR TED CZ—A FAILED GOP PRINTIAL NDIDATE WHOSE RANKS DESANTIS SEEMS POISED TO JO—ALREADY ANNOUNCED A PROBE OF HIS OWN TO THIS MATTER OF GRAVE NATNAL IMPORT BACK MAY. SO NOT ONLY IS THIS PERFORMANCE BY DESANTIS STUPID; ’S ALSO UNORIGAL.WHICH ISN’T SURPRISG: MUCH OF DESANTIS’S ACT IS BORROWED OM DONALD TMP. AND EVEN ONE OF HIS MOST HIGH-PROFILE STUNTS—SENDG MIGRANTS TO BLUE ENCLAV (I.E., G HUMAN BEGS AS PAWNS TO PROTT JOE BIN’S BORR POLICI)—WAS CRIBBED OM THE GREG ABBOTT PLAYBOOK. DESANTIS’S TRANSFORMATN OF FLORIDA TO A PETRI DISH OF FAR-RIGHT POLICY MAY HAVE MA HIM A NATNAL FIGURE. BUT THAT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE UP FOR HIS SIGNIFINT FICIENCI AS A NATNAL NDIDATE—CLUDG, BUT NOT LIMED TO, HIS LACK OF ANYTHG APPROXIMATG PERSONALY OR CHARISMA.THAT’S LEFT HIM WH NOTHG BUT CULTURE WAR. IT MAY PLAY WH ANY MEMBERS OF THE VERY-ONLE RIGHT STILL THKG ABOUT BUD LIGHT, BUT IS MORE LIKELY TO NFE ANYONE WHO LOGGED OFF OM THIS ANE NTROVERSY MONTHS AGO. PERHAPS WILL EVEN IRK REPUBLINS WHO DON’T LIKE THE IA OF ERNMENT TRYG TO EXERT NTROL OVER RPORATNS’ AD MPAIGNS, OR AT LEAST THOSE WHO WOULD PREFER THEIR PARTY LEARS FOC ON SOMETHG OTHER THAN PISSG NTTS WH BUD LIGHT AND DISNEY, THE LATTER OF WHICH DESANTIS HAS BEEN FDG WH FOR MORE THAN A YEAR OVER S THEN-CEO’S RELUCTANT, D-CRICISM OF FLORIDA’S HIO “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW.BETWEEN THAT DISNEY DT-UP AND HIS PRINTIAL BID, MAY BE HARD FOR DESANTIS TO FD THE TIME TO BATTLE BUD LIGHT. BUT ’S POSSIBLE HIS SCHLE ULD BE EEG UP PRETTY SOON, BASED ON RECENT REPORTS OUT OF HIS FLOUNRG RACE FOR THE GOP NOD: “THE ENTIRE MPAIGN IS ON THE BRK,” A SOURCE FAIAR WH THE MATTER TOLD NBC NEWS AFTER DESANTIS FIRED ABOUT A DOZEN STAFFERS THIS WEEK. “I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHG LIKE .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZMEGHAN MARKLE WILL BE JOG PRCE HARRY GERMANY FOR THE INVICT GAMBY ER VANRHOOFTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYERIC LUTZ

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

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“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.