Gay rights movement | Defn & History | Branni

Contents:

• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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

I’m disverg that ageism is the last acceptable form of prejudice amongst the LGBTQ+ muny (Picture: Jason Reid)‘In gay years, you’re rather past your sell-by date, aren’t you?’ the person ont of me said, raisg an eyebrow. I replied by sayg, y I see as a blsg to be olr and wiser bee many gay men who me before me had their liv cut short their prime bee of AIDS. I remember an olr gay acquatance once told me to ‘enjoy the halcyon gay years bee you’ll be 40 no time.’ It turns out, they were right.

When I was a cky 20-year-old I, too, was dismissive of olr gay people bee I was small-md and thought the gay scene was solely for the young.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

When was reported that 18-year-old Jake Daniels — the UK’s first active gay male profsnal footballer — was a lovg relatnship wh a 46-year-old man, Twter was ablaze wh self-righteo nmnatn om LGBTQ+ people.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Even worse, language like ‘groomer’ and ‘nonce’ — trop that are routely ed by anti-gay people to publicly beltle — was beg trotted out by my fellow gay men.

Instead of dismissg those gay elrs who me before , we ought to pull up a barstool and lgh wh and learn om them.

MEET GILBERT BAKER, THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAY PRI RABOW FLAG

Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay. 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.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“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. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.