'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• BIRDS OF A FEATHER A BETIFUL, GATED GAY AND LBIAN MUNY OF HOM NEW MEXI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE 11 OF TOP GAY RETIREMENT HOM IN THE US
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• DO PALM SPRGS NEED A LUXURY GAY RETIREMENT COMMUNY? THIS DEVELOPER THKS SO
• A GUI TO GAY ASSISTED LIVG COMMUNI

BIRDS OF A FEATHER A BETIFUL, GATED GAY AND LBIAN MUNY OF HOM NEW MEXI

As gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals move to their retirement years, the mand for LGBTQ retirement muni ntu to expand. As the employe will be close ntact wh rints, ’s imperative to nfirm the nursg home is LGBTQ-iendly, as dited gay nursg hom are not mon.

Fountagrove Lodge Santa Rosa, California, is the natn’s first lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr-foced senr muny. Careee Cove is a lbian and gay retirement muny ntled North Carola’s High Country. This senr gay retirement muny is bt for active olr adults livg penntly as assisted livg and medil re servic are not available.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Birds of a Feather Pes, New Mexi, was found 2004 as a muny for gays and lbians. Triangle Square Los Angel, California, offers the natn's first affordable hog retirement apartments for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny.

The Palms of Manasota Palmetto, Florida, is a gay, lbian, and gay-iendly retirement muny.

Petersburg and Sarasota (both wh gay retirement hom and thrivg gay muni).

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Philalphia’s LGBT Elr Iniative (LGBTEI) plays a cril role ensurg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr olr adults have the opportuny to live vibrant, creative, and mutually supportive liv. Orlando, Florida: Orlando has been a pneer LGBTQ clivens datg back to the origal Gay Days 1991. A study by the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law showed that senr gay and lbian upl have higher poverty rat than married heterosexual upl.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

THE 11 OF TOP GAY RETIREMENT HOM IN THE US

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Birds of a Feather A betiful, gated gay and lbian muny of hom New Mexi. Our LGBTQ iendly muny is a gay and lbian haven like no other the world. Our muny is ma up of lbians, gays, sgl, upl and iends who re about environmentally rponsible livg; an active and healthy liftyle; and formg strong social nnectns when we need them most–as we are agg.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

DO PALM SPRGS NEED A LUXURY GAY RETIREMENT COMMUNY? THIS DEVELOPER THKS SO

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

A GUI TO GAY ASSISTED LIVG COMMUNI

Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Here is a closer look at the top gay retirement hom the US.

Typil rints clu sgle people, married upl, gay, straight, first and send homeowners, still workg, or retired.