This is the story of Gene Ampon, a gay California teen who was arrted the '60s and sent to a psychiatric hospal to be "cured" of his homosexualy -- and the movement to pri and rilience that helped save him.
Contents:
- WHEN GAYNS WAS A CRIME AND A MENTAL ILLNS: ONE MAN’S JOURNEY OM INVOLUNTARY CONFEMENT TO PRI
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
WHEN GAYNS WAS A CRIME AND A MENTAL ILLNS: ONE MAN’S JOURNEY OM INVOLUNTARY CONFEMENT TO PRI
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more.”.
Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg . He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children.
“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.”. A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy.”.
Edors’ note: This story tak back to an era before the rights of gay people were regnized as herent to their humany and right to privacy. Hodg, the 2015 se givg gay upl the right to marry. It was the early 1960s, and across the untry, state laws and psychiatric diagnos had nverged to create a grim era for LGBTQ people – pecially gay men.
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