On Saturday 20 May 2023, the Bssels Pri - The Belgian & European Pri will be held Bssels. The Pri is an event cludg several activi for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people and a big para the cy centre. [llapsed tle="Pri Week (om 10 to 19 May)"] The Bssels Pri kicks off wh the Pri Week (om 10 to 19 May), which will host nferenc, bat and activi around them that are ar to the muny. More : Bssels Pri - The Belgian & European Pri [/llapsed] [llapsed tle="Pri Para (on Saturday 20 May)"] On Saturday 20 May, jo the gatherg at the Pri Village at the Mont s Arts om noon. At 2 pm, after the speech, the Pri Para will take the Rabow Flag through the streets of Bssels. More : Bssels Pri - The Belgian & European Pri [/llapsed] [llapsed tle="Pri @ The Archiv"] The Archiv of the Cy of Bssels are llectg LGBTQIA+ archiv: Collectn of LGBTQIA+ archiv [/llapsed] [llapsed tle="Pri @ The Mms"] 'Pri @ The Mms' by the Cy of Bssels largely tak place durg the Pri Week. For ten days, nferenc, bat and activi will take place around them close to the gay muny's heart. Programme Pri @ the Mm Exhibn 'Bssels Queer Graphics' Lecture '40 years of LGBTQI+ film ftivals Bssels' Manneken-Pis rabow lours From 17 May 2023, the showse of the GarRobe MannekenPis (Rue du Chêne 19) will be rated the lours of the rabow. Among others, disver the mayor's stume of the Free Commune of the Ilot Sacré, the stume ma by Jean-Pl Gltier for the 20th Belgian Pri and the stume as part of the Ftival. On Thursday 1 June 2023, the untry's three ma LGBTQIA+ anisatns, Rabow Hoe (Bssels), Cavaria (Flanrs) and Prisme (Wallonia), will jotly donate a new stume to Manneken-Pis to mark the 20th anniversary of the law on same-sex marriage. Acquisn of a ntemporary porcela In celebratn of the entry to force of this law, the Mm of the Cy of Bssels will announce the acquisn of a ntemporary work of art porcela. The choice of porcela is obv: after all, 20 years of marriage is celebrated wh a porcela weddg anniversary. Moreover, om the end of the 18th century until after the Send World War, high qualy porcela was produced Bssels and the Mm of the Cy of Bssels has the most important llectn of this kd. The acquisn of a ntemporary piece of Bssels porcela is therefore a nod to this rich past. The Mm of the Cy of Bssels will liver this project llaboratn wh MAD Bssels. The fal draft will be prented June 2023, exactly 20 years after the first same-sex marriage Bssels. The piece will then be exhibed the porcela room of the Mm of the Cy of Bssels.[/llapsed] [llapsed tle="Rabow flags the cy"] To start the Pri Week, the Cy of Bssels hung up 173 new, more clive rabow flags unr the name Progrs pri. The 6 pillars of the Bourse will also be rated wh the famo lours, while the Monnaie will be draped wh the new 6 x 4 metre tersex flag. For the Pri Para on 20 May, two 2 x 6 metre 'BXL' stctur will also be placed at the Marché Charbon (Kolenmarkt) quarter and ont of the Monnaie Theatre.[/llapsed] [llapsed tle="Theme 'Protect the Prott'"] 'Protect the Prott', Amnty Internatnal's mpaign slogan, has been adopted as the theme for Bssels Pri - The Belgian & European Pri. Prott is a fundamental human right. The LGBTQIA+ movement knows how ccial the eedoms of associatn and exprsn are for progrs. The rights mt be granted or upheld, Belgium, Europe and around the world.[/llapsed]
Contents:
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- BSSELS GAY SPORTS (BGS)
- GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
- BSSELS GAY DISTRICT
- BSSELS PRI, THE BELGIAN GAY PRI BSSELS
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
* gay pride in brussels *
For ten days, nferenc, bat and activi will take place around them close to the gay muny's heart. Belgium had s first 'gay day' on March 18, 1978 Ghent.
A year later, on May 5, 1979 Antwerp, gay men and lbians were on the street for the 'Internatnal Day of Homosexualy'. The followg year, Rooie Vlr joed the Feratie Werkgroepen Homofilie (FWH) and the Bssels associatn CCL to anize Bssels' "Natnal Homosexual and Lbian Day".
In 1996, nearly 2, 500 visors attend the event, which then beme the 'Belgian Lbian and Gay Pri'. In May, on a date close to World Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (May 17), brgs together ftive, polil and cultural events, iativ and activi, not only Bssels, the Belgian and European pal, but also throughout Belgium. 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.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
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. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store?
BSSELS GAY SPORTS (BGS)
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.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. 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. 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.
GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
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. 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.
BSSELS GAY DISTRICT
“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. 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.
BSSELS PRI, THE BELGIAN GAY PRI BSSELS
The 28th annual event as the untry's laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent. Let’s lve to the objectiv and program of this year’s LGBTQ+ event wh some of a gay Couple of Men‘s favore moments and photos of the Bssels rabow celebratn 2023. Would you like to learn more about gay travel bloggers and experience our queer adventur wh ?
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