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Contents:
- WHY IS MY PUTER VERED GAY PRI FLAGS AND IMAG?
- MICROSOFT CAV ON GAY RIGHTS
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
- MICROSOFT CEO SAYS COMPANY WILL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS LEGISLATN
- MICROSOFT COM UNR FIRE FOR REVERSAL ON GAY RIGHTS BILL
WHY IS MY PUTER VERED GAY PRI FLAGS AND IMAG?
In a move that angered many of the pany's gay employe, the Microsoft Corporatn, publicly perceived as the vanguard stutn of the new enomy, has taken a major polil stand favor of age-old discrimatn. The Stranger has learned that last month the $37-billn Redmond-based software behemoth quietly whdrew s support for Hoe bill 1515, the anti-gay-discrimatn bill currently unr nsiratn by the Washgton State legislature, after beg prsured by the Evangelil Christian pastor of... * microsoft company gay *
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.
MICROSOFT CAV ON GAY RIGHTS
“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.
RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
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.
MICROSOFT CEO SAYS COMPANY WILL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS LEGISLATN
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.
MICROSOFT COM UNR FIRE FOR REVERSAL ON GAY RIGHTS BILL
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.