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Contents:

• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• IN THE WAKE OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ LGBTQ STUNTS WON’T BE SILENCED
• GENEVA GAY: A LEGACY OF ELEVATG MULTICULTURAL TN TO PROMENCE
• THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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.

IN THE WAKE OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY,’ LGBTQ STUNTS WON’T BE SILENCED

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.

“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. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.

GENEVA GAY: A LEGACY OF ELEVATG MULTICULTURAL TN TO PROMENCE

”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

“They’re jt ntug the fear mongerg om ssn, ” says Jon Harris Mrer, public policy director for Equaly Florida, scribg 2023 legislative chang that fall squarely to the more-of-the-same-homophobic-nonsense tegory. DeSantis support of anti-gay vio lled bad strategy, worse msage. A provisn that would extend the famo “Don’t Say Gay” provisns to middle schools.

Florida needs more public officials to fd the urage to stand up to Florida’s self-signated emperor and say “Governor, for someone so foced on ‘Don’t Say Gay, ’ you sure seem to brg up a lot. He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. Crics have dubbed the measure the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED

Hundreds of their classmat this Orlando suburb end up walkg out of school for nearly an hour that day, wavg plastic rabow flags and chantg “We say gay. The measure the stunts protted, formally known as the “Parental Rights Edutn” law, bans stctn on gay, lbian or genr inty topics om krgarten through third gra, as well as any stctn about the topics that are not age- and velopmentally appropriate at all gra levels.

Stunts at Wter Park High School Florida held a rally to prott the state’s new policy that rtricts discsn of topics relatg to gay, lbian and transgenr orientatn and inty school. The school is ls than 10 om PULSE, a gay night club that was turned to a memorial after 49 people were murred what was the adlit mass shootg U. Sce the Queer Stunt Unn was formed November of 2021, s members have n voter registratn driv, put up posters that say “Beg gay is NOT a choice, ” and they’ve been meetg wh admistrators to fd ways to prevent bullyg school bathrooms.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

The stunts agreed they wanted to see more history lsons on the gay rights movement and prentatns on why jok about LGBTQ people are hurtful. Wter Park High ss a regn that is ls welg than other parts of the untry to gay, lbian and transgenr youth, acrdg to a 2021 survey by the Trevor Project, an advocy and support anizatn. “They said, their words, ‘No one r if you’re gay, jt stop talkg about , ’” Echo said.

In March, Will gave a prentatn to his history class about the Stonewall rts — a famo 1969 prott New York Cy that helped spark the gay rights movement.

But beg openly gay high school has not been easy.