Canned cktail 'Gay Water' aims to sh on Bud Light's mistak

Contents:

• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS NEW YORK
• LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN

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.

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.

BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.

“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.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBeg Gay Is Illegal Many Countri. In the Maldiv, gay sex may be punished wh lash and up to eight years prison. “I’m gay and I want to vis the plac, ” said Darren Burn, the founr of Out of Office, an clive luxury travel pany.

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“And if I want to vis the plac, then there are other gay people who do, too. Married gay men have the most spendg power, wh a median hoehold e that is more than $25, 000 higher than their straight and lbian so, beg out and gettg out n be at odds a world where many plac are hostile — and sometim outright dangero.

Uganda notably jt enacted a law llg for life prison for anyone nvicted of havg gay sex, and some s even ath. I haven’t heard of anyone havg issu, ” said Bryan Herb, -founr of Zoom Vatns, which operat small tours untri such as Kenya, the Maldiv, and Moroc, all plac where gay sex n brg prison terms.

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“I wouldn’t say that bee the laws target only homosexual acts, that transgenr people are safe, ” said Mr.

”Pk money a gray ScurfieldMany untri may jt pend on the flux of tourist dollars so much that they’re willg to give tourists — whether straight or gay — special tourism dtry is a top ntributor to Kenya’s gross domtic product and acunts for more than half a ln jobs Moroc. Hospaly also driv the enomy the Maldiv, where three lol men recently received prison sentenc for havg homosexual relatns, while dozens more have been vtigated. ”He said that years ago, when he first started takg gay Amerins abroad, wasn’t unmon for his quiri to suppliers to go unanswered.

“We would love the opportuny to work wh your anizatn to create tailored erari for your LGBTQ+ travelers Tanzania, ” read a recent email he received om a small safari a lonial-era law, Tanzania punish nsensual gay sex wh up to life prison, and April, the ernment shut down thoands of webs and social media acunts lked to gay groups and people. When travelg to Tanzania, for example, clients are advised to practice discretn sce “even heterosexual PDAs are owned upon, ” referrg to public displays of page for Out Adventur’ tour to Egypt, cludg a Nile River cise and snorkelg the Red Sea startg at $5, 495 per traveler, explas that “gay datg apps should be avoid” and disurag clients om tryg to participate the “unrground gay scene” of the larger Egyptian thori have been reported to harass and entrap members of the L. Sharp said, “but we don’t want to put anyone the lol queer muny a suatn where they uld be at risk bee they’re seen wh this group of obv homosexuals.

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Anizatns untri where beg gay is illegal, and is currently givg $50 per traveler to Rabow Railroad, a nonprof anizatn that helps L. More about Aara TiefenthälerA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: Where Beg Gay Is Illegal, Travel Is Complited.

LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN

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Gay New York: is New York gay iendly? It’s home to the largt LGBTQ populatn the Uned Stat, and ’s unlikely that you’d enunter any issu if you’re openly gay while visg. If you do fd yourself any suatns that need assistance om LGBTQ legal, health, or advocy groups, The Gay Centre and the New York Anti-Vlence Project n offer substantial help.