New Beer Brands Gay Beer and Queer Brewg Aim to Support Queer Communi - Eater

Contents:

• PROUD TO SAY GAY
• GAY BEER
• HOW FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL TURNED STUNTS TO ACTIVISTS
• BEER IS SO GAY

PROUD TO SAY GAY

In 2014, Heeken lnched a mpaign featurg Neil Patrick Harris, the brand’s first openly gay ambassador. Digned to speak directly and thentilly to diverse nsumers, Gay Beer is tend to pneer change and clivy the beer market.

Honorg the rich herage of the LGBTQ+ muni past while regnizg the tegry of the muni prent, Gay Beer celebrat the nnectns ma through sharg a beer wh the people you love. Brewed wh a choice blend of Vienna Malt and Mandara Hops, Gay Beer is a goln lager wh not of honey and crisp cs that’s sure to satisfy you beer drkers. One of their beers, Love Hazy IPA: Pri Edn, transforms Almanac’s most popular hazy IPA durg Pri month to a beer to support the Oakland LGBTQ Communy Center, a nonprof dited to enhancg and stag the well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and Queer people through tnal-, social-, health-, and wellns-related activi, programs, and servic.

Awkward Brewg’s Taproom Manager, Harry Stanley, who openly intifi as gay, told the brewery celebrat Pri all year round. Partners bs and life, Shyla Sheppard and her wife, Missy Begay, opened their Native-, women-, and Queer-owned brewery New Mexi to rporate gredients and culture om their Native Amerin herage.

GAY BEER

Born and raised on the Fort Berthold Rervatn North Dakota, Sheppard is a member of the Three Affiliated Trib, while Begay is the granddghter of Navajo silversmhs and weavers. A revered gay bar Greenwich Village New York Cy, The Stonewall Inn is the se of the historic Stonewall Inn Rts, six days of protts and rts rponse to New York Cy police raidg the bar.

Often regnized as igng the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and worldwi, the Stonewall Uprisg and The Stonewall Inn have bee tegral to Queer history and the Queer muny. Director of Operatns Anne Abrahamson has proudly reprented as a gay female on the Cerebral Brewg learship team sce jog the brewery four years ago.

Massachetts’ gayt brewery mak damn good beer. “It’s tly a muny for everyone, not jt black, whe, but straight, gay. DBCo serv the same gatherg functn as gay bars, which have slowly been disappearg om plac where once they were rnerston, leavg Queer people short supply of spac to ll their own.

HOW FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL TURNED STUNTS TO ACTIVISTS

That means hostg gay-oriented events (like Bears, Brews, & Boys) and participatg cywi events (like the Boston Pri Para, which award DBCo Bt Float 2019). Addnally, the brewery works wh Boston BAGLY, the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lbian Youth.

A small gay and Mexin-owned brewery that opened only earlier this year, El Sueño has already ma a big impact on s muny. Gay Beer. Image urty of Gay Beer.

Like Dyke Beer, Gay Beer enurag clivy craft beer. Started by craft beer lovers and members of the Queer muny, Jason Pazmo and Jon Moore, Gay Beer honors the herage of the Queer muny and speaks directly to a diverse dience. Beer cultivat nversatn, so Gay Beer, particular, emphasiz how we n make the dtry more diverse.

BEER IS SO GAY

Wh all this md, a portn of proceeds om the sale of Gay Beer go directly back to supportg LGBTQIA+ advocy. In the past, Gay Beer has worked wh anizatns like Project Renewal, Center for Black Equy, Hog Works, and more.

Or hirg an entirely Queer staff and postg signs around the taproom that say racism and homophobia won’t stand. The taproom has bee a hub for the Queer muny, wh Goldspot hostg everythg om Queer Dungeons & Dragons to craft markets featurg Queer-owned bs to open mic nights wh Queer performers and gay dance parti. One of Hieber’s favore events, Homos and Homi, v a BIPOC vegan food tck and a Queer-owned one, along wh Queer artists and vendors, to set up on Goldspot’s pat.

Goldspot raised $300 durg the last Homos and Homi, but each participatg vendor donat too, brgg the grand total to a uple of thoand dollars.