In a Yale Daily News edorial, Will Portman explas how he me out to his parents and how Sen. Rob Portman's views on gay marriage evolved
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- PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLIN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- A TRAGIC STORY OF A SENATOR AND HIS “GAY” SON
- GOP NGRSMAN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER OPPOSG PROTECTNS FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- 9 CONSERVATIVE POLICIANS WH GAY KIDS
- GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- GOP LAWMAKER ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER VOTG AGAST MARRIAGE EQUALY
- REPUBLIN SENATOR ATTEND HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLIN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attend his gay son’s weddg last week, three days after opposg a bill the US Hoe that would enshre protectns for same-sex marriage to feral law, CNN has nfirmed. * senator with gay son *
A Republin ngrsman attend his gay son’s weddg jt last week after he voted agast a bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex marriage. ) celebrated his son’s nuptials on Friday, his spokperson said — three days after the lawmaker voted agast the bipartisan bill that would protect same-sex marriag like his son’s should the Supreme Court overturn s prev lg legalizg gay marriage. Democratic legislators troduced the bill to squash fears of the nservative-majory Supreme Court overturng s 2015 cisn that clared state laws barrg same-sex marriage are unnstutnal and legalized gay marriage on a natnal level.
“Two years ago, my son Will, then a llege hman, told my wife, Jane, and me that he is gay. Such an announcement is excciatgly paful for any parent, but is pecially troublome for Christian parents whose fah nmns homosexual behavr as gravely sful.
Senator Portman adms that he “wrtled wh” rencilg his Christian fah wh his cisn to approve of homosexual behavr. Glenn Thompson attend his gay son’s weddg last week, three days after opposg a bill the US Hoe that would enshre protectns for same-sex marriage to feral law, CNN has nfirmed. Many parents stggle wh the revelatn that their child is gay, partially bee of misguid tradnal views or bee ’s tough to see your kid face prejudice.
A TRAGIC STORY OF A SENATOR AND HIS “GAY” SON
This weekend, the gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., got married. A few days earlier, his father voted agast the Defense of Marriage Act. * senator with gay son *
Nobody seemgly has a tougher time acceptg their gay children than nservative policians. Policians wh nservative views have often put their opns about gay marriage and other gay rights out the open. Many of the gay children of the policians have bee polil activists themselv, fightg agast the hate their parents have nservative policians have gay children?
Photo: Metaweb / GNU Free Documentatn LicenseOh Senator Rob Portman had been a long time opponent of gay marriage.
However, once his son Will Portman me out as gay, the Senator changed his posn.
GOP NGRSMAN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER OPPOSG PROTECTNS FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Unfortunately, the revelatn wasn't enough for him to fight for gay marriage, simply not to oppose any longer. He has long sce nmned homosexualy, spe havg a lbian dghter, Maya Jean Marcel-Key.
Birthplace: Long Island, New York, Uned Stat of AmeriNatnaly: Uned Stat of AmeriRepublin Arizona Senator Matt Salmon had long sce held his nservative views, cludg anti-gay legislatn that would ban same sex marriage and gay adoptn rights.
9 CONSERVATIVE POLICIANS WH GAY KIDS
Salmon, his son, me out as gay 2010, wh plans to make the Republin party more progrsive. " His grandson Ty Ross me out as gay, but that didn't change Goldwater's opns a b. However, Bono still voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which stripped rights om gay people.
A Republin lawmaker attend his gay son’s weddg jt three days after jog the majory of his GOP lleagu votg agast a Hoe bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex gay son of Rep.
One of five Republin senators who has already nfirmed a y vote on the bill is Rob Portman of Oh, who clared his support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out as gay.
GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
GOP LAWMAKER ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER VOTG AGAST MARRIAGE EQUALY
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.
“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.
REPUBLIN SENATOR ATTEND HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.