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• IN NETFLIX’S ‘THE PROM,’ ANDREW RANNELLS ASKS EVANGELILS TO LOVE THY GAY NEIGHBOR
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• HOW DID NETFLIX’S ‘THE PROM’ MIL—AND JAM CORN’S PERFORMANCE—BEE A BIG GAY CRISIS?
• JAM CORN SHOULD HAVE BEEN BANNED OM THE PROMMERYL STREEP AND NILE KIDMAN ARE MERELY WASTED NETFLIX’S BROADWAY MIL ADAPTATN—BUT CORN'S PERFORMANCE IS SULTG.BY RICHARD LAWSONDECEMBER 1, 2020PHOTO BY MELDA SUE GORDON/NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT SOME POT DURG MY CSH ON THE 2017 FILM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, A IEND ASKED ME A VEXG QUTN: IF I WAS ALWAYS PLAG ABOUT GAY ACTORS NOT BEG HIRED TO PLAY GAY (OR, CMBYN’S SE, QUEER) ROL, WHY DIDN’T THE FACT THAT THE FILM’S STARS ARE STRAIGHT MAKE ME UPSET? I HEMMED, I HAWED, TRYG TO RATNALIZE MY SELECTIVE HYPOCRISY. I EVENTUALLY TOLD THEM WAS BEE WHEN TO THE PROBLEM OF STRAIGHT GUYS PLAYG GAY MEN ON SCREEN, I JT KNOW WHEN I SEE . MEANG, SOMETIM ’S JT FE—BILL HAR THE SKELETON TWS TO MD, OR TREVANTE RHOS THE TREMENDO THIRD ACT OF MOONLIGHT—AND OTHER TIM ’S VERY MUCH NOT. IT’S ALL ABOUT TENTN AND EXECUTN, I GUS, EFFABLE QUALI THAT SHE THROUGH THE MOST SUCCSFUL TRANSFORMATNS. THAT’S A NUANCE THAT PRECLUS ANY HARD AND FAST LE ABOUT WHO SHOULD PLAY GAY MEN ON SCREEN. IN GENERAL, Y, I WISH MORE GAY ACTORS GOT THE CHANCE TO TELL OUR STORI, EMBODY OUR PEOPLE, RATHER THAN STRAIGHT MEN GETTG ACLAS FOR BEG BRAVE—OR CHEERS FOR BEG SASSY. IT DON’T BOTHER ME, THOUGH, ANY GRANDLY ABSOLUTE WAY. I KNOW ’S BAD WHEN ’S BAD, BUT OTHERWISE I’M NOT TOO FSED ABOUT . WELL, AT LEAST, I WASN’T. THEN I WATCHED THE PROM (NETFLIX, DECEMBER 11), RYAN MURPHY’S FILM VERSN OF THE RECENT BROADWAY MIL, AND I GOT MAD ALL OVER AGA. THE PROM IS ABOUT A BUNCH OF SELF-VOLVED NEW YORK THEATER ACTORS SCENDG ON AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL TO PROTT A LBIAN STUNT BEG SENTIALLY BARRED OM ATTENDG HER PROM. ONE OF THE ACTORS IS A GRAND OLD SHOW QUEEN, BARRY GLICKMAN, A VA SWISH WHOSE STAR IS FADG BUT STILL LOOMS AS A LEGEND OF THE FORM. I’M THKG NATHAN LANE, IF HIS STAR HAD ACTUALLY FAD. BUT THE FILM, HE’S NOT PLAYED BY LANE. NOR IS HE PLAYED BY BROOKS ASHMANSKAS, THE OUT GAY THEATER MASTAY WHO PLAYED THE ROLE THE BROADWAY PRODUCTN AND RECEIVED A TONY NOMATN FOR HIS TROUBL. BARRY IS STEAD PLAYED BY TALK-SHOW HOST AND OCSNAL ACTOR JAM CORN, MOST RECENTLY SEEN ON THE BIG SCREEN CATS.CORN, WHO IS STRAIGHT, IS SO BAD THE PROM—SOMEHOW BOTH APPALLG AND TERMALLY BLAND—THAT HAD ME THKG MAYBE THE HARDLERS WERE RIGHT ALONG. FET THE WHOLE SE-BY-SE THG: NO MORE STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY MEN UNTIL THE SS OF THE PROM ARE PROPERLY ATONED FOR. MURPHY, A GAY MAN, HAS LED SOME STRAIGHT ACTORS TO FERTILE GAY TERRORY BEFORE, LIKE DARREN CRISS THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE. BUT CORN, FLTG AND LISPG AROUND THE MOST UNSPIRED OF RITUR, MISS ALL POTENTIAL FOR NUANCE, AND TH NEVER FDS EVEN A HT OF TTH THE ROLE. AND THIS IS A MOVIE THAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT EMPOWERG QUEER PEOPLE! THERE’S LTLE GOOD ELSEWHERE THE PROM, SAVE FOR NEWERS JO ELLEN PELLMAN AND ARIANA DEBOSE AS THE WSOME YOUNG UPLE AT THE CENTER OF THE PROM-TROVERSY. THEY ADD DASH OF BRIGHT THEATER-KID MOXIE TO THE FILM, NJURG UP A B OF WHAT FEELS LIKE TO S A BROADWAY HOE AND WATCH A BUNCH OF LOVABLE GOOBERS BELT THEIR HEARTS OUT. OTHERWISE, THE PROM IS STAGED NFG, TRATG WAYS. MURPHY SHOOTS A LOR PALETTE RANGG OM GAY DISTHEQUE AT 11PM ON A THURSDAY TO THIRD PERD PHYSICS CLASS, NONE OF WHICH SPIR MUCH WONR ANY GIVEN SCENE. DURG A MIL NUMBER THAT’S A SLAVISH HOMAGE TO BOB FOSSE, MURPHY BARELY EVEN SHOWS THE TWO CHARACTERS’ LEGS OR FEET—LET ALONE THEIR WHOLE BODI GLOR MOTN. INSTEAD, HE FILMS THEM MOSTLY OM THE SHOULRS UP—SOMEWHERE, GWEN VERDON IS SCREAMG. MURPHY DON’T SEEM TO HAVE ANY TE TERT , OR UNRSTANDG OF, WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE ABOUT MILS. THE PROM IS A SHELLACKED LUMP OF HOLLYWOOD PRODUCT, ALL NNED FABULONS—CLUDG CORN’S NOX MUGGG—AND NONE OF THE DIFFICULT, AWE-SPIRG TECHNILY THAT MAK MIL PERFORMANCE TLY SNAP AND SG WH THEATER’S SCRAPPY MAGIC. EVEN IF YOU DIDN’T SEE A PARTICULAR STAGE SHOW—AS I DIDN’T, THIS SE—A FILM VERSN N STILL EVOKE SOME OF THAT THRILL, WHEN DONE RIGHT. IT N EVEN EXPAND UPON , WAYS UNIQUE TO CEMA. THE PROM STIRS NO SUCH WONR. MATTHEW SKLAR'S MIC, CHAD BEGUEL'S LYRICS, AND BOB MART'S BOOK FARE THE ADAPTATN OKAY, BUT THEIR THEATER JOK AND GENERAL AIR OF HAMMY WHIMSY ARE NOT GIVEN THE SLY SP THEY REQUIRE TO REALLY LAND, AND THEY’RE OFTEN DROWNED OUT BY MURPHY’S HURRIED, OVERLY ADORNED VISUALS.WE ARE MEANT TO BE DRAWN BY THE BIG NAM: CORN, NILE KIDMAN, KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY, KERRY WASHGTON, MERYL STREEP. THEY’RE MOSTLY PUT TO WASTE. KIDMAN IS STUCK THAT OBFTG FOSSE NUMBER AND OTHERWISE DISAPPEARS. KEY AND WASHGTON PLAY THEIR SQUARE PARTS WELL—HE’S THE KDLY PRCIPAL, SHE THE BIGOTED HEAD OF THE PTA—BUT THEY N’T PERFORM THEIR WAY EE OF THE FILM’S LEAN WEIGHT. STREEP DO SOME PLEASANTLY RELIABLE STREEPY THGS, BUT SHE’S NOT A BELTER, AND HER ROLE—BASILLY A MIX OF PATTI LUPONE AND . . . WELL, MIGHT JT BE PATTI LUPONE—IS MEANT FOR A BELTER. THE SISTENCE ON PUTTG HUGE STARS WHO N’T QUE RRY THE TUNE TO MOVIE MILS BETRAYS A CENTRAL DISTST THE ORIGAL MEDIUM. THE PROM PLAYS LIKE ’S TRYG TO FIX A PROBLEM, TO ZHH UP SOMETHG LACKG, STEAD OF LOVGLY, REFULLY TRANSLATG A PLENTY-WORTHY-ON-S-OWN STAGE SHOW TO THE SCREEN. THE RE MSAG AT THE HEART OF THE PROM ARE NICE: GAY ACCEPTANCE, CELEBRATG DIFFERENCE, LOVG THY NEIGHBOR, HAVG A GOOD TIME THE FACE OF THOSE WHO WOULD TELL YOU TO DO OTHERWISE. THERE’S LTLE SCERY TO THE WAY MURPHY’S FILM PRENTS THOSE THGS, THOUGH. THEY’RE MARKETG TALKG POTS RATHER THAN ACTUAL IAS MA THOUGHTFULLY MANIFT THE TEXTURE OF THE FILM. AND THEY’RE UNRCUT BY CORN’S HACK JOB, WHICH NTEXTUALIZ ALL AS CYNIL SMARM MORE THAN EARNT, NECSARY MSAGG. THOSE LOOKG FOR A LTLE MIL BOOSTER SHOT HERE OUR THEATER-LS TIM ULD, I SUPPOSE, DO WORSE THAN THE PROM. BUT WOULD PROBABLY BE MORE FUN, AND MORE SATISFYG, TO JT PUT ON THE ORIGAL BROADWAY SOUNDTRACK AND DANCE AROUND YOUR BEDROOM, PLENTY SAFE OM ANY OUTSI TERFERENCE. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE CROWN: THE TE STORY OF THE QUEEN’S INSTUTNALIZED COS— A REAL-LIFE CHS CHAMPN TALKS THE QUEEN’S GAMB— PRCE ANDREW’S MOST APPALLG REAL-LIFE ANTICS WERE LEFT OUT OF THE CROWN— REVIEW: HILLBILLY ELEGY IS SHAMELS OSR BA— INSI THE OBSTATE LIFE OF BETTE DAVIS— THE CROWN: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN CHARL MET DIANA— DIANA’S RELATNSHIP WH PRCS ANNE WAS EVEN MORE ROCKY THAN THE CROWN— FROM THE ARCHIVE: BETTE DAVIS ON HER FAILED MARRIAG AND THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHRICHARD LAWSON
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• JAM CORN ‘THE PROM’ SPARKS CRIC OUTRAGE: ‘OFFENSIVE’ AND ‘WORST GAY-FACE’

IN NETFLIX’S ‘THE PROM,’ ANDREW RANNELLS ASKS EVANGELILS TO LOVE THY GAY NEIGHBOR

“Why do you hate gay people? It’s jt that they’re Christian, and their relign nsirs homosexualy a s. )The scene then kdly highlights the hypocrisy of gay-hatg Christians, and genuely bridg what some real-life Bible thumpers nsir an surmountable iologil divi.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

“Growg up, I was a gay kid, gog to Catholic school a small town, beg told I was gog to rot hell.

“Note to self, don't be gay Indiana. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.

In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends.

Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends.

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. ), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”.

) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck.

HOW DID NETFLIX’S ‘THE PROM’ MIL—AND JAM CORN’S PERFORMANCE—BEE A BIG GAY CRISIS?

As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns.

While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg!

JAM CORN SHOULD HAVE BEEN BANNED OM THE PROMMERYL STREEP AND NILE KIDMAN ARE MERELY WASTED NETFLIX’S BROADWAY MIL ADAPTATN—BUT CORN'S PERFORMANCE IS SULTG.BY RICHARD LAWSONDECEMBER 1, 2020PHOTO BY MELDA SUE GORDON/NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAT SOME POT DURG MY CSH ON THE 2017 FILM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, A IEND ASKED ME A VEXG QUTN: IF I WAS ALWAYS PLAG ABOUT GAY ACTORS NOT BEG HIRED TO PLAY GAY (OR, CMBYN’S SE, QUEER) ROL, WHY DIDN’T THE FACT THAT THE FILM’S STARS ARE STRAIGHT MAKE ME UPSET? I HEMMED, I HAWED, TRYG TO RATNALIZE MY SELECTIVE HYPOCRISY. I EVENTUALLY TOLD THEM WAS BEE WHEN TO THE PROBLEM OF STRAIGHT GUYS PLAYG GAY MEN ON SCREEN, I JT KNOW WHEN I SEE . MEANG, SOMETIM ’S JT FE—BILL HAR THE SKELETON TWS TO MD, OR TREVANTE RHOS THE TREMENDO THIRD ACT OF MOONLIGHT—AND OTHER TIM ’S VERY MUCH NOT. IT’S ALL ABOUT TENTN AND EXECUTN, I GUS, EFFABLE QUALI THAT SHE THROUGH THE MOST SUCCSFUL TRANSFORMATNS. THAT’S A NUANCE THAT PRECLUS ANY HARD AND FAST LE ABOUT WHO SHOULD PLAY GAY MEN ON SCREEN. IN GENERAL, Y, I WISH MORE GAY ACTORS GOT THE CHANCE TO TELL OUR STORI, EMBODY OUR PEOPLE, RATHER THAN STRAIGHT MEN GETTG ACLAS FOR BEG BRAVE—OR CHEERS FOR BEG SASSY. IT DON’T BOTHER ME, THOUGH, ANY GRANDLY ABSOLUTE WAY. I KNOW ’S BAD WHEN ’S BAD, BUT OTHERWISE I’M NOT TOO FSED ABOUT . WELL, AT LEAST, I WASN’T. THEN I WATCHED THE PROM (NETFLIX, DECEMBER 11), RYAN MURPHY’S FILM VERSN OF THE RECENT BROADWAY MIL, AND I GOT MAD ALL OVER AGA. THE PROM IS ABOUT A BUNCH OF SELF-VOLVED NEW YORK THEATER ACTORS SCENDG ON AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL TO PROTT A LBIAN STUNT BEG SENTIALLY BARRED OM ATTENDG HER PROM. ONE OF THE ACTORS IS A GRAND OLD SHOW QUEEN, BARRY GLICKMAN, A VA SWISH WHOSE STAR IS FADG BUT STILL LOOMS AS A LEGEND OF THE FORM. I’M THKG NATHAN LANE, IF HIS STAR HAD ACTUALLY FAD. BUT THE FILM, HE’S NOT PLAYED BY LANE. NOR IS HE PLAYED BY BROOKS ASHMANSKAS, THE OUT GAY THEATER MASTAY WHO PLAYED THE ROLE THE BROADWAY PRODUCTN AND RECEIVED A TONY NOMATN FOR HIS TROUBL. BARRY IS STEAD PLAYED BY TALK-SHOW HOST AND OCSNAL ACTOR JAM CORN, MOST RECENTLY SEEN ON THE BIG SCREEN CATS.CORN, WHO IS STRAIGHT, IS SO BAD THE PROM—SOMEHOW BOTH APPALLG AND TERMALLY BLAND—THAT HAD ME THKG MAYBE THE HARDLERS WERE RIGHT ALONG. FET THE WHOLE SE-BY-SE THG: NO MORE STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY MEN UNTIL THE SS OF THE PROM ARE PROPERLY ATONED FOR. MURPHY, A GAY MAN, HAS LED SOME STRAIGHT ACTORS TO FERTILE GAY TERRORY BEFORE, LIKE DARREN CRISS THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE. BUT CORN, FLTG AND LISPG AROUND THE MOST UNSPIRED OF RITUR, MISS ALL POTENTIAL FOR NUANCE, AND TH NEVER FDS EVEN A HT OF TTH THE ROLE. AND THIS IS A MOVIE THAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT EMPOWERG QUEER PEOPLE! THERE’S LTLE GOOD ELSEWHERE THE PROM, SAVE FOR NEWERS JO ELLEN PELLMAN AND ARIANA DEBOSE AS THE WSOME YOUNG UPLE AT THE CENTER OF THE PROM-TROVERSY. THEY ADD DASH OF BRIGHT THEATER-KID MOXIE TO THE FILM, NJURG UP A B OF WHAT FEELS LIKE TO S A BROADWAY HOE AND WATCH A BUNCH OF LOVABLE GOOBERS BELT THEIR HEARTS OUT. OTHERWISE, THE PROM IS STAGED NFG, TRATG WAYS. MURPHY SHOOTS A LOR PALETTE RANGG OM GAY DISTHEQUE AT 11PM ON A THURSDAY TO THIRD PERD PHYSICS CLASS, NONE OF WHICH SPIR MUCH WONR ANY GIVEN SCENE. DURG A MIL NUMBER THAT’S A SLAVISH HOMAGE TO BOB FOSSE, MURPHY BARELY EVEN SHOWS THE TWO CHARACTERS’ LEGS OR FEET—LET ALONE THEIR WHOLE BODI GLOR MOTN. INSTEAD, HE FILMS THEM MOSTLY OM THE SHOULRS UP—SOMEWHERE, GWEN VERDON IS SCREAMG. MURPHY DON’T SEEM TO HAVE ANY TE TERT , OR UNRSTANDG OF, WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE ABOUT MILS. THE PROM IS A SHELLACKED LUMP OF HOLLYWOOD PRODUCT, ALL NNED FABULONS—CLUDG CORN’S NOX MUGGG—AND NONE OF THE DIFFICULT, AWE-SPIRG TECHNILY THAT MAK MIL PERFORMANCE TLY SNAP AND SG WH THEATER’S SCRAPPY MAGIC. EVEN IF YOU DIDN’T SEE A PARTICULAR STAGE SHOW—AS I DIDN’T, THIS SE—A FILM VERSN N STILL EVOKE SOME OF THAT THRILL, WHEN DONE RIGHT. IT N EVEN EXPAND UPON , WAYS UNIQUE TO CEMA. THE PROM STIRS NO SUCH WONR. MATTHEW SKLAR'S MIC, CHAD BEGUEL'S LYRICS, AND BOB MART'S BOOK FARE THE ADAPTATN OKAY, BUT THEIR THEATER JOK AND GENERAL AIR OF HAMMY WHIMSY ARE NOT GIVEN THE SLY SP THEY REQUIRE TO REALLY LAND, AND THEY’RE OFTEN DROWNED OUT BY MURPHY’S HURRIED, OVERLY ADORNED VISUALS.WE ARE MEANT TO BE DRAWN BY THE BIG NAM: CORN, NILE KIDMAN, KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY, KERRY WASHGTON, MERYL STREEP. THEY’RE MOSTLY PUT TO WASTE. KIDMAN IS STUCK THAT OBFTG FOSSE NUMBER AND OTHERWISE DISAPPEARS. KEY AND WASHGTON PLAY THEIR SQUARE PARTS WELL—HE’S THE KDLY PRCIPAL, SHE THE BIGOTED HEAD OF THE PTA—BUT THEY N’T PERFORM THEIR WAY EE OF THE FILM’S LEAN WEIGHT. STREEP DO SOME PLEASANTLY RELIABLE STREEPY THGS, BUT SHE’S NOT A BELTER, AND HER ROLE—BASILLY A MIX OF PATTI LUPONE AND . . . WELL, MIGHT JT BE PATTI LUPONE—IS MEANT FOR A BELTER. THE SISTENCE ON PUTTG HUGE STARS WHO N’T QUE RRY THE TUNE TO MOVIE MILS BETRAYS A CENTRAL DISTST THE ORIGAL MEDIUM. THE PROM PLAYS LIKE ’S TRYG TO FIX A PROBLEM, TO ZHH UP SOMETHG LACKG, STEAD OF LOVGLY, REFULLY TRANSLATG A PLENTY-WORTHY-ON-S-OWN STAGE SHOW TO THE SCREEN. THE RE MSAG AT THE HEART OF THE PROM ARE NICE: GAY ACCEPTANCE, CELEBRATG DIFFERENCE, LOVG THY NEIGHBOR, HAVG A GOOD TIME THE FACE OF THOSE WHO WOULD TELL YOU TO DO OTHERWISE. THERE’S LTLE SCERY TO THE WAY MURPHY’S FILM PRENTS THOSE THGS, THOUGH. THEY’RE MARKETG TALKG POTS RATHER THAN ACTUAL IAS MA THOUGHTFULLY MANIFT THE TEXTURE OF THE FILM. AND THEY’RE UNRCUT BY CORN’S HACK JOB, WHICH NTEXTUALIZ ALL AS CYNIL SMARM MORE THAN EARNT, NECSARY MSAGG. THOSE LOOKG FOR A LTLE MIL BOOSTER SHOT HERE OUR THEATER-LS TIM ULD, I SUPPOSE, DO WORSE THAN THE PROM. BUT WOULD PROBABLY BE MORE FUN, AND MORE SATISFYG, TO JT PUT ON THE ORIGAL BROADWAY SOUNDTRACK AND DANCE AROUND YOUR BEDROOM, PLENTY SAFE OM ANY OUTSI TERFERENCE. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE CROWN: THE TE STORY OF THE QUEEN’S INSTUTNALIZED COS— A REAL-LIFE CHS CHAMPN TALKS THE QUEEN’S GAMB— PRCE ANDREW’S MOST APPALLG REAL-LIFE ANTICS WERE LEFT OUT OF THE CROWN— REVIEW: HILLBILLY ELEGY IS SHAMELS OSR BA— INSI THE OBSTATE LIFE OF BETTE DAVIS— THE CROWN: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN CHARL MET DIANA— DIANA’S RELATNSHIP WH PRCS ANNE WAS EVEN MORE ROCKY THAN THE CROWN— FROM THE ARCHIVE: BETTE DAVIS ON HER FAILED MARRIAG AND THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHRICHARD LAWSON

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

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. “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.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

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.”. 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.

JAM CORN ‘THE PROM’ SPARKS CRIC OUTRAGE: ‘OFFENSIVE’ AND ‘WORST GAY-FACE’

“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.