Wele to The Queer Comedy Club, Where Everybody Knows You're Gay - Paste Magaze

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• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• WELE TO THE QUEER COMEDY CLUB, WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU’RE GAY

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

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.Spencer Hodson/Instagram. 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 6.1-ch height. “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.

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. “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.

WELE TO THE QUEER COMEDY CLUB, WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU’RE GAY

Even somethg like “Hi, gay, ” no one said that before and was so funny, but everyone knows that’s Meg Stalter’s b. I thk an example of a gay hack joke or queer hack joke has some racist unrton or somehow downplays the experience of other margalized groups, which is somethg I’ve fely heard at open mics. I remember hearg one where a whe gay was addrsg all of the protts gog on durg 2020, and the joke was like, “I may be a cis whe gay man, but I will always be a faggot.

I thk we are lucky that we live an era where queerns is beg so wispread that we n say, “Oh, that gay joke has been done enough. ” It’s a gift that we live a place where gay people, specifilly queer cis men, are dog stand-up and we n say, “Okay, ladi, we heard that one. You still have to go up there and troduce yourself to homophobic tourists and figure out how to get them to lgh at you as a human beg.

” The only time you’re gonna see a gay joke over and over aga is if you go to all the queer shows, and that’s jt such a small dience of people. Or jt queer people talkg about regular everyday stuff — that is probably the most tertg to me, where I’m like, Oh, we don’t have to expla that we’re gay and you’re lghg at bee we’re gay.