Canned cktail 'Gay Water' aims to sh on Bud Light's mistak

Contents:

• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• THE GAY SI OF SOFIA
• THE BEST SOFIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SOFIA
• SOFIA GAY CISE CLUBS
• REMEND ME GAY PLAC SOFIA, BULGARIA? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BULGARIA
• GAY BULGARIA TRAVEL GUI

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

VAULT @ The StepsVAULT is a gay dance party takg place the back room of the lounge, The Steps. 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.

THE GAY SI OF SOFIA

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.

THE BEST SOFIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SOFIA

“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?

SOFIA GAY CISE CLUBS

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.

REMEND ME GAY PLAC SOFIA, BULGARIA? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

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. However, non-discrimatn is still a far cry om equal rights, and at the moment there are no provisns Bulgarian law regardg civil unns or marriage for homosexual upl, and -habg partners nnot adopt children, nor do they have hospal visatn or herance rights. However, gay unns are now regnised some Eastern European untri, such as Hungary, so may only be a matter of time before Bulgaria tch up.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BULGARIA

While other ci Central and Eastern Europe have been holdg tolerance or equaly paras the past few years, Sofia's first official gay para 2008 was marred by vlence om extremists. However this year, 400 people marched peacefully through the cy centre, a sign which hopefully shows that Bulgaria is beg more acceptg of gays and lbians.

Gay visors to Bulgaria, and pecially Sofia, will fd a tolerant place, and actually much more open to homosexualy than many Eastern European untri. There are more than a handful of popular gay bars and clubs the cy, and homosexual upl n generally walk around the centre of the cy safe om harassment.

GAY BULGARIA TRAVEL GUI

To help you get the most out of your trip we've put together a list gay, lbian and gay-iendly bars and clubs below, open as of July 2009. We have also piled a list of webs of GLBT anizatns and different portals where Sofia's homosexual muny munit on the web, and are good startg pots for meetg people before g to Sofia.

The ma anizatn for advancg GLBT rights Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Gay Organizatn Gemi, which was started 1992 by a gay uple, but several other gay anizatns and portals exist for Bulgaria. So if you're a gay visor to Bulgaria, we wele you, and hope you'll only experience the posive si of life Sofia. Above: BGO Gemi, the largt gay rights anizatn BulgariaSofia's gay and gay-iendly venu:.

Adonis is one of the olst gay bars the Balkans, and recently re-opened after a brief closure.