New Beer Brands Gay Beer and Queer Brewg Aim to Support Queer Communi - Eater

Contents:

• BEER IS SO GAY
• WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
• GAY BEER
• GAY BEER
• GAY BAR BEER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• 'ALL BEER IS GAY BEER' HOLOGRAPHIC PRT
• PRI AND POLICS: GAY BEER AND MARKETG ‘AUTHENTICY’
• PROUD TO SAY GAY
• WHY IS KEN'S BEER "GAY"?
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

BEER IS SO GAY

Ask what mak a gay bar gay and the answers will vary. What you’ll rarely hear, though, is that a gay bar is a gay bar bee of the drks.

WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?

Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg.

GAY BEER

Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer. Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017. The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals.

GAY BEER

Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv. But of urse, had to be gay. Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny.

They began llg Gay Beer while velopg the product and jt stuck. Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn. Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters.

(Big Gay Ice Cream has ed the same tactic. “A lot of bars are not wantg to say they’re lbian bars, they’re wantg to say they’re queer bars — but a lot of gay male bars keep sayg they’re gay male bars, ” she says.

GAY BAR BEER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

From a sign standpot, Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg all wanted to reference the cultur they grew om.

For Moore and Pazmo, that meant an “Amerina whout the Amerin flag” sign, somethg that reflected the athetics of Juli’ Bar, and the gay men of the ’60s who participated the “sip ” protts. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are n by queer people and support queer people year-round. Buyg Gay Beer at the grocery store signals to everyone who se you that you’re the kd of person who buys Gay Beer.

'ALL BEER IS GAY BEER' HOLOGRAPHIC PRT

Gay Beer may be explicly queer, but “gay” still feel more fortable on the tongue to a non-queer person than “dyke” or “queer. Meanwhile, Gay Beer will soon be available 32 stat through e-merce.

A brand like Gay Beer gets to be the Trojan horse of the queer beer agenda. Wae says, “Many were pleased to see the lnch of somethg actively tryg to make change wh a stagnant and homogeno dtry, and queer and trans folk were pleased to see somethg that reprented them a way that hadn’t been done before.

PRI AND POLICS: GAY BEER AND MARKETG ‘AUTHENTICY’

One of their beers, Love Hazy IPA: Pri Edn, transforms Almanac’s most popular hazy IPA durg Pri month to a beer to support the Oakland LGBTQ Communy Center, a nonprof dited to enhancg and stag the well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and Queer people through tnal-, social-, health-, and wellns-related activi, programs, and servic. Partners bs and life, Shyla Sheppard and her wife, Missy Begay, opened their Native-, women-, and Queer-owned brewery New Mexi to rporate gredients and culture om their Native Amerin herage.

Born and raised on the Fort Berthold Rervatn North Dakota, Sheppard is a member of the Three Affiliated Trib, while Begay is the granddghter of Navajo silversmhs and weavers. A revered gay bar Greenwich Village New York Cy, The Stonewall Inn is the se of the historic Stonewall Inn Rts, six days of protts and rts rponse to New York Cy police raidg the bar. Often regnized as igng the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and worldwi, the Stonewall Uprisg and The Stonewall Inn have bee tegral to Queer history and the Queer muny.

PROUD TO SAY GAY

Director of Operatns Anne Abrahamson has proudly reprented as a gay female on the Cerebral Brewg learship team sce jog the brewery four years ago. Massachetts’ gayt brewery mak damn good beer. “It’s tly a muny for everyone, not jt black, whe, but straight, gay.

DBCo serv the same gatherg functn as gay bars, which have slowly been disappearg om plac where once they were rnerston, leavg Queer people short supply of spac to ll their own.

WHY IS KEN'S BEER "GAY"?

That means hostg gay-oriented events (like Bears, Brews, & Boys) and participatg cywi events (like the Boston Pri Para, which award DBCo Bt Float 2019). Addnally, the brewery works wh Boston BAGLY, the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lbian Youth. A small gay and Mexin-owned brewery that opened only earlier this year, El Sueño has already ma a big impact on s muny.

Gay Beer. Image urty of Gay Beer. Like Dyke Beer, Gay Beer enurag clivy craft beer.

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

Started by craft beer lovers and members of the Queer muny, Jason Pazmo and Jon Moore, Gay Beer honors the herage of the Queer muny and speaks directly to a diverse dience.

Beer cultivat nversatn, so Gay Beer, particular, emphasiz how we n make the dtry more diverse.

Wh all this md, a portn of proceeds om the sale of Gay Beer go directly back to supportg LGBTQIA+ advocy. In the past, Gay Beer has worked wh anizatns like Project Renewal, Center for Black Equy, Hog Works, and more.