Gay senrs get a place to ll home

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE UK’S FIRST GAY OLD PEOPLE’S HOME TO OPEN WH THREE YEARS
• GAY SENRS GET A PLACE TO LL HOME
• BRA TO GET FIRST GAY OLD PEOPLE’S HOME

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

THE UK’S FIRST GAY OLD PEOPLE’S HOME TO OPEN WH THREE YEARS

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.

“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.

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.

GAY SENRS GET A PLACE TO LL HOME

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. 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. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. A recent study by Stonewall, the LGBT rights anisatn, and YouGov found that a quarter of staff health and social re have heard lleagu make offensive remarks about LGBT people the last five years, while 10% (and London, 22%) have heard lleagu say that gay people n be “cured”.

BRA TO GET FIRST GAY OLD PEOPLE’S HOME

Almost three-quarters of staff say they have received no trag how to rpond to the specific needs of gay patients. A study by Stonewall and YouGov om 2011 found that half of lbian, gay, and bisexual people over the age of 55 would feel unfortable g out a mastream re home, and 60% didn’t feel GPs, social servic, and hog provirs uld meet their needs. Pegged as Canada’s first rince for gay male senrs, Urban Home Rachel is on the outskirts of the cy’s gay village.

Demand has been so formidable that the velopers are days away om closg a al to immediately open a send gay old folks’ home. Gays over age 60 “had a lot of trouble g out of the closet, ” she explas, “and then when they went to tradnal rinc, they faced tremendo discrimatn.

Instead, last sprg they bought an existg Greek senrs’ rince, L’Olympos, near the gay village, and cid to nvert .