It’s long been prumed by historians and folklorists that heroic LGBTQ characters simply didn’t exist. But when one ancient gay fairytale was disvered, one amic has explas they were actually eded out of history as recently as the 1960s.
Contents:
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
- 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
- GAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL : MORE TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN
- A NEW GAY FAIRY TALE
- GAYFAIRYTAL STORI
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay folk tales *
An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.
Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.
The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6. “Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.
Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
“The Dog And The Sailor” is a gay fairytale lost for over 200 years, after narrowly ped beg... But one newly released gay fairytale, that n be traced back to at least the 19th century has been disvered by Pete Jordi Wood, the Cornish wrer and illtrator. His rearch suggts that not only did gay fairytale “The Dog And The Sailor” exist but that a “whole chunk of LGBTQ folklore” was “leted” by one homophobic man, as recently as the 1950s.
MORE FROM FORBESTalkg About Your Pronouns Is One Easy Way To Be A Transgenr AllyBy Jamie WarehamGay fairytal have always existed, but some have been eded out of history. “In the acpanyg Motif Inx of Folklore he piled the 1920s, and revised the 1950s, he lists ‘Homosexualy’ and ‘Lbianism’ a sectn lled “Unnatural Perversns” wh btialy and ct. One guy got to choose what stori did or didn’t make the cut what is now the re rource and system for documentg folklore an orr still ed gay folklore was lost when Sh Thompson and other prolific folklore amics imposed their...
'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
[+] a posive queer story that was passed om generatn to generatn over 200 years agoPete Jordi Wood – The Dog And The SailorMORE FROM FORBESOpenly Gay Indian Prce Jos Calls To Ban LGBT Conversn TherapyBy Jamie WarehamThe Dog And The Sailor is the gay fairytale where the male sailor, gets to kiss Prce Charmg.
So after translatg variatns of the story om Danish, German, Frisian, and others; and checkg Thompson’s synopsis was rrect, ntag the same elements or motifs – Pete found an “unbelievably and fabuloly gay” plot. “Ultimately ’s an ancient tale wh a posive portrayal, of a guy who n be read as gay or asexual, but certaly queer, who is the only person who n feat the evil bee he n rist her bety. But Pete got ‘gay goosebumps’ when he realised what he’d found.
“When I started to reunt to my gay iends, they got goosebumps too. This list is for LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) fictn retellgs of classic lerature, fairy tal or mythology. Gay Pri and Prejudice.
GAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL : MORE TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN
The Ltle Homo Sapiens Scientist. bisexual, fairytal, fictn, gay, lbian, lgbt, mythology, queer, retellg, retellgs, trans, transgenr. “For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love .
A NEW GAY FAIRY TALE
For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love . Gay Fairy & Folk Tal: More Tradnal Stori Retold For Gay Men|Peter Cashoral.
But while one room celebrated folk mic’s recent history, the other ponred what might yet month’s global Pri events acknowledge the richns of queer inty, and folk mic is creasgly part of that: gay, lbian, trans and other artists are g to munite their experienc and speak to a muny whose stori are rare the genre.
Tom Robson released Glad to Be Gay 1978, and Billy Bragg and Kirsty MacColl sang Sexualy 1991, an elated hymn to sexual liberatn.
GAYFAIRYTAL STORI
Photograph: J FaganBut you have to know where to look for songs like the, somethg that Jane Edwardson, mil director for LGBT muny choir Gay Abandon found out when preparg a queer-themed folk set.