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

Contents:

• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY
• ‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS
• 3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• SEVERAL FACE CHARG KILLGS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED AND ROBBED
• ROBBERY CREW DGGED GAY MEN LEAVG NYC CLUBS, KILLG TWO, POLICE SAY
• ARRT MA ROBBERI AND MURRS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED
• DGGED, ROBBED, KILLED AFTER PARTYG HELL'S KCHEN — ARE GAY MEN BEG TARGETED?

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

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Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars. Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.

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

Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed. It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December.

ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L.

Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife. People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia.

INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY

Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge. 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.

‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS

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

3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS

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“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. A Manhattan grand jury has dicted several spects nnectn wh the aths of two men who were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year, two law enforcement officials said Wednday.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office cled to ment, as did an NYPD spokman, cg the ongog Umberger and Jul Clary; Fay photoUmberger and Ramirez were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.

SEVERAL FACE CHARG KILLGS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED AND ROBBED

It is unclear, however, if they were of gay men found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected to the dicted spects. ”In the months followg the aths of Ramirez and Umberger, more gay New Yorkers stepped forward wh eerily siar acunts.

NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October 2022, both before and after the aths of Ramirez and NYPD nfirmed mid-November that was vtigatg addnal acunts of grand larceny at other Manhattan gay bars that had siari to the Umberger and Ramirez s. ‘I Got an Umbrella and Ambn’: Indictment Reveals Alleged Conspiracy Behd Gay Bar Deaths. A seri of dgggs and robberi — cludg two fatal overdos — outsi bars 2022 left New York's gay muny on edge.

ROBBERY CREW DGGED GAY MEN LEAVG NYC CLUBS, KILLG TWO, POLICE SAY

In the sprg of 2022, two men were dgged and robbed after leavg gay bars New York. On April 21, 2022, some of the fendants approached Jul Ramirez outsi of the Rz Bar, the dictment stated, a gay bar Midtown Manhattan.

ARRT MA ROBBERI AND MURRS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED

Umberger was leavg the Q NYC, a gay nightclub two blocks and one avenue away om the Rz Bar. The dictments e after police have said they were vtigatg siar crim at bars, where they said gay people and straight people have both been victimized, acrdg to the New York Tim. Moon for The New York TimThree men were charged on Monday, two of them wh murr, a seri of fatal dgggs at Manhattan gay bars that killed two people and have spread fear through the cy’s L.

Prosecutors believe the crim were rried out by what they lled “a crew” of attackers who preyed on people Hell’s Kchen, a gay nightlife district Midtown Manhattan, slippg dgs to unspectg bar patrons and then leadg them to a send lotn, sometim their own hom, to rob Police Department said at least one spect, Jayqwan Haton, remaed at large on Monday.

DGGED, ROBBED, KILLED AFTER PARTYG HELL'S KCHEN — ARE GAY MEN BEG TARGETED?

C., was killed after he left the Q, a gay club near the Rz.