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