A new wave of LGBTQ-iendly, alhol-ee venu and events have popped up over the last few years to serve as alternativ to gay bars.
Contents:
- BEER IS SO GAY
- DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?
- ‘BEER IS FOR EVERYBODY. NO EXCEPTNS’: BREWERY INTRODUC ‘EVEN GAYER’ LIGHT BEER, PROCEEDS GOG TO LGBTQ+ CHARY
BEER IS SO GAY
A new group of beer pani and breweri like Gay Beer and Queer Brewg are supportg LGBTQ+ muni while rvg out space the beer world for queerns * non gay beer *
Ask what mak a gay bar gay and the answers will vary. What you’ll rarely hear, though, is that a gay bar is a gay bar bee of the drks. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg.
DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?
An "Even Gayer" light beer buts what appears to be a clever rponse to the recent backlash Bud Light faced over a sponsorship wh a transgenr activist. * non gay beer *
Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer.
Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017.
The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals. Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv.
‘BEER IS FOR EVERYBODY. NO EXCEPTNS’: BREWERY INTRODUC ‘EVEN GAYER’ LIGHT BEER, PROCEEDS GOG TO LGBTQ+ CHARY
But of urse, had to be gay. Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny. They began llg Gay Beer while velopg the product and jt stuck.
Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn. Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters.