Thoands Jo Budapt Pri As Anxiety In LGBTQ Communy Grows - Towleroad Gay News

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• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
• GAY BUDAPT
• THE GAY & LBIAN SCENE BUDAPT
• GAY BUDAPT · CY GUI
• IS BUDAPT GAY IENDLY? - HUNGARY FOM
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS BUDAPT
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BUDAPT
• BUDAPT GAY SNAS

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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. 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.

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. “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?

GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

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.

Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

“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.

GAY BUDAPT

The 28th annual event as the untry’s laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent.

David Vig, director at Amnty Internatnal Hungary, said that ntrast to some untri Wtern Europe and North Ameri where Pri events are celebratns of LGBTQ+ history and culture, Budapt Pri is a way of prottg creasg crackdowns on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

Photograph: Attila Kisbenek/AFP Thoands of Hungarians braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt on Saturday, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT mister Viktor Orban’s ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned “display and promotn of homosexualy” books and films accsible by unr-18s spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. "But unfortunately I have to say that beg proud of beg gay is not as accepted Hungary as the Wt. Neher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed wrappg.

THE GAY & LBIAN SCENE BUDAPT

As the Hungarian ernment revok civil rights for the gay muny, however, there is still a profound and lively unterculture wh the untry that reflects the growg appreciatn and acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ muny.

Budapt Mayor Gergely Karácsony and openly gay U.

“On the ocsn of the 28th Budapt Pri Ftival, we the unrsigned embassi and cultural stut exprs our full support for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny Hungary and their rights to equaly and non-discrimatn, eedom of exprsn and peaceful assembly and eedom om vlence, ” reads the statement. Hello everyone me and my iends will vis Budapt and we wanted to know if you have any reendatns for queer gay plac clubs or bars.

GAY BUDAPT · CY GUI

Not the sna style or gay cise, jt normal bars or clubs. The 28th annual event as the untry's laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent. On Friday, the US was among 38 embassi to issue a jot statement urgg EU-member Hungary to do more to rpect and protect the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) muny.

The Lira Kiskerkelmi Kft bookstore cha is the latt bookstore to e unr fire om the ernment for breakg a law passed 2021 that forbids the advertisement or distributn of materials that "promote or display homosexualy. "The office of the Budapt regnal ernment stated a prs release that “the vtigatn tablished that the books qutn pict homosexualy, yet they were displayed among books for children, classified as youth lerature, and they were not distributed sealed packagg. The “child protectn law”, which was passed by a sweepg 157 vot to one, has garnered fierce cricism om wh Hungary and the European law broadly bans ntent which “promot or portrays a divergence om self-inty rrpondg to sex at birth, sex change or homosexualy” to April, the Hungarian parliament approved a law that would make possible for people to report fai that go agast “nstutnally regnized role of marriage and the fay.

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Budapt Pri Growg om a most activist event entled Pk Piic 1992, Budapt’s first gay pri march took place 1997. Magnum Sna Openg 2001, Magnum Sna is Budapt’s first gay sna.

Magnum wel a diverse crowd of gay men and hosts a variety of themed events, cludg a UV night, pizza evengs, wellns events and drag shows.

The Gay & Lbian Scene Budapt.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BUDAPT

Gay bars open and close the blk of an eye.

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