Why Is Iced Coffee So Gay? | GQ

Contents:

• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
• YOUR INBOX IS HUNGRYENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRS BELOW TO GET FOOD NEWS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX.FOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYFOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYADVERTISEMENTFOOD NEWSGAY COFFEEBRIAN YAMAMOTONOV 26, 2011NO, THIS FFEE ISN'T EXCEPTNALLY HAPPY OR EXUBERANT (ALTHOUGH I GUS ULD BE?) THIS FFEE IS GENUE GAY COFFEE. WHAT EXACTLY MAK GAY COFFEE? A NUMBER THGS, ACTUALLY. FIRSTLY, THE PANY IS OWNED AND OPERATED AND OPERATED BY MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY. SENDLY, THEY RPORATE A NUMBER OF WILY REGNIZABLE GAY CLICH ALONG WH A FEW TID BS OF GAY CULTURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY ON THEIR PACKAGG AS MEANS OF EMPOWERMENT. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, A PORTN OF THE PROFS OM GAY COFFEE GO TOWARD FUNDG THE NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE.ADVERTISEMENTAS FOR THE FFEE, GAY COFFEE ROASTS THEIR FFEE SMALL 25 LB BATCH AND SIST ON G FAIR TRA, ANIC FFEE BEANS THEIR PRODUCT. GAY COFFEE FIVE DIFFERENT BLENDS, AND EACH PLETE WH A SHORT PARAGRAPH PROVIDG SOME SIGHT TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE GAY MUNY.SHARETWEETWE DELIVER!

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

We're jt for the morng gays. "When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said. Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat.

For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy. For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends.

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WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?

Note: n nfirm] a piece published last October on the LGBTQ webse New Now Next, was noted that for the past two years on social media there’s been a steady flow of jok and mem about the gay muny’s affy for iced ffee. Acrdg to NNN, iced ffee is gay bee: portabily (cute cups), easy nsumptn (’s ld) and ctomizatn (you n pump full of sugar, or sugar-ee syp that is fely not givg you diabet). The se pared to the stereotype of suburban moms and their nsumptn of pot grig; iced ffee is a gay ctch.

YOUR INBOX IS HUNGRYENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRS BELOW TO GET FOOD NEWS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX.FOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYFOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYADVERTISEMENTFOOD NEWSGAY COFFEEBRIAN YAMAMOTONOV 26, 2011NO, THIS FFEE ISN'T EXCEPTNALLY HAPPY OR EXUBERANT (ALTHOUGH I GUS ULD BE?) THIS FFEE IS GENUE GAY COFFEE. WHAT EXACTLY MAK GAY COFFEE? A NUMBER THGS, ACTUALLY. FIRSTLY, THE PANY IS OWNED AND OPERATED AND OPERATED BY MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY. SENDLY, THEY RPORATE A NUMBER OF WILY REGNIZABLE GAY CLICH ALONG WH A FEW TID BS OF GAY CULTURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY ON THEIR PACKAGG AS MEANS OF EMPOWERMENT. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, A PORTN OF THE PROFS OM GAY COFFEE GO TOWARD FUNDG THE NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE.ADVERTISEMENTAS FOR THE FFEE, GAY COFFEE ROASTS THEIR FFEE SMALL 25 LB BATCH AND SIST ON G FAIR TRA, ANIC FFEE BEANS THEIR PRODUCT. GAY COFFEE FIVE DIFFERENT BLENDS, AND EACH PLETE WH A SHORT PARAGRAPH PROVIDG SOME SIGHT TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE GAY MUNY.SHARETWEETWE DELIVER!

While ’s hard the days to tly unrstand why anythg be a meme (this is wavg at the Babadook), there are a lot of portable, easily ctomizable thgs that e cute packagg that aren’t so closely aligned wh the gay muny.

(Although lookg back, actually, that was pretty gay. )One of the earlit exampl of the gay muny’s ep relatnship wh iced ffee om a 2001 episo of Will & Grace.