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• REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• MONTREAL GAY CY GUI: A CY OF FUN, FTIVALS, AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• THE 10 BEST MONTREAL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MONTREAL
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• MONTREAL GAY SNAS
• MONTREAL’S GAY VILLAGE
• GAY MONTREAL · HOTELS

REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE

A generatnal shift away om Montreal’s Gay Village and towards alternative Queer spac wh the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny has been tected. Julie Podmore, an affiliate assistant profsor of geography, planng and environment at Conrdia Universy, has unvered this shift “Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generatn Montréal’s Mile End”. Conducted 2013, Podmore’s rearch recently appeared a chapter she wrote for the book The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Rurgence (eded by Alex Bterman and Daniel Baldw Hs).

Prciple among the was the perceptn that the Village had bee a mercialized and homonormative space signed for whe cis gay men. Gentrifitn and velopg the Village as a tourist statn has phed out many queer elements and spac save for those dited to cis gay whe men. Podmore add that homonormativy and mercializatn the Village were not always the norm.

“But the ‘90s, all over the wtern world we start to see gay villag start to diversify.

GAY VILLAGE

“My generatn of queers was kd of a batn of trans, gays, and lbians that saw themselv as one muny a way, and the Village was their meetg place, ” she add. “At night, I am more likely to be intified as a gay man drag than as a trans woman, so that also mak me feel very unfortable. “I spend a lot of time talkg to trans people, mostly aged between 20 and 35, and none of them feel reprented by the Gay Village” she said.

“Worse, at night, I am more likely to be intified as a gay man drag than as a trans woman, so that also mak me feel very unfortable. Not bee we’re over LGBTQ+-phobia Quebec as some whe gay men will tell you, but bee I and other trans women n lead normal liv most of the cy. I don’t feel the Gay Village is a place where I am weled, or where I feel I belong.

Efforts outled the manifto clu droppg the word “gay” om the Village’s official name, and iatg trag prams signed to te the employe bs the Village on clivy and anti-racist/anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attus. If there's nothg gay specific, if there's no reason for LGBTQ+ people to gather there, then the chanc of havg an inty as a queer space are not very likely.

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

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Montreal's gay village has seen better days and has clearly been eefall cle recent years.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

It seems that Montreal's Gay Village will share the same fate as other ci North Ameri, where they have ma Masculy out of style thereby removg the generatg force that fueled this once vibrant and edgy place to be. No the kd of thg you see other ci and siar gay villag.

One vis to the gay village and was a plete turn off.

MONTREAL GAY CY GUI: A CY OF FUN, FTIVALS, AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS

I'm no snob, but this Gay Village is cheap and lacks a lot and I mean a lot of class. Montreal has a lot more to offer - fet the gay village is not worth the money.

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Gay Villag were once a cultural hub of class and sophistitn. Where style and sign were ont & centre, sought out and pied by the outsi world, who me and walked the welg, lovg and non judgg embrace the gay is no longer the se. What is left of the gay “muny” is a a shell of s former self that died a long time ago.

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

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Breakg out to the queer scene wh PINK28, a popular monthly 6à9 event outsi of the village for gay profsnal women, Da Habib is now the head producer behd Die Young Die Happy Productns (DYDH), an pennt artistic-fashn productn pany. Burt is also a -founr of the Montreal chapter of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn and ntu to fluence the Montreal nightlife and entertament scene his role as a Montreal Gazette lumnist and Pop Tart blogger. But Montreal’s Gay Village is gog through tough cyclil chang once aga, as LGBT tablishments stggle to survive.

We mt all remember that this creasgly post-gay world, we still need our Gay Village, still the only neighbourhood where we are the majory. 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.

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“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 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. 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.

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“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. 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.

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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.

MONTREAL’S GAY VILLAGE

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? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.

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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.