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• WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK
• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• FAMED GAY NIGHTCLUB GIPSY TO MAKE DRAMATIC 2022 RETURN TO THE EASTSI
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR

WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK

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.

“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.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

FAMED GAY NIGHTCLUB GIPSY TO MAKE DRAMATIC 2022 RETURN TO THE EASTSI

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 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.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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.

HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR

The Cy of Wt Hollywood wel a new gay bar.

Fashn Police -host Gee Kotspoulos teamed up wh Circ of Books owner Rob Novger and Fire Hot Yoga founr Schtag, to open the new gay bar that lerally means “Gold” French–a nod to the beloved Gold Coast space which closed for good September 2020 after servg the muny for 39 years. It is beg billed as a gay bar by the owners who have acknowledged the history of the space and are not shyg away om the cisy reputatn of the famo Vasele Alley loted their backyard.

“We don’t want gay bars to bee obsolete, ” Kotspoulos told Variety when he announced his latt enavor last year. I recently graduated and am thkg of openg up a gay/queer bar and event space where Brothers ed to be on Green.