Watchg ‘Pri’ Rsia: Defyg Mosw’s Anti-Gay Law – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• PATRIARCH OF MOSW: GAY PRI PARAS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE WAR UKRAE
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• WATCHG ‘PRI’ RSIA: DEFYG MOSW’S ANTI-GAY LAW
• MOSW MAYOR BANS 'SATANIC' GAY PARA
• MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

PATRIARCH OF MOSW: GAY PRI PARAS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE WAR UKRAE

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 PRI CALENDAR

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.

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.

WATCHG ‘PRI’ RSIA: DEFYG MOSW’S ANTI-GAY LAW

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.

MOSW MAYOR BANS 'SATANIC' GAY PARA

ET, March 8, 2022Rsian Orthodox Church alleg gay pri paras were part of the reason for Ukrae warFrom CNNs Delia Gallagher RomeRsian Patriarch Kirill celebrat a Christmas service at the Christ the Savr thedral Mosw, Rsia, on January 6. (Kirill Kudryavtsey/AFP/Getty Imag)The lear of the Rsian Orthodox Church said gay pri paras were part of the reason for the war Ukrae.

”The “tt” of which si you are on, said Kirill, is whether your untry is willg to hold gay pri paras.

MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

“In orr to enter the club of those untri, is necsary to hold a gay pri para. Not to make a polil statement, ‘we are wh you, ’ not to sign any agreements, but to hold a gay para.

The tt is very simple and at the same time terrible – this is a gay para”. And Kirill ntu: “The mands on many to hold a gay para are a tt of loyalty to that very powerful world; and we know that if people or untri reject the mands, then they do not enter to that world, they bee strangers to .

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

Mostly the Rsians, to whom is addrsed, but also the Metropolans, Bishops and the clergy of the Rsian Church Ukrae, who see their untry bombed and their spirual father “rms” them that everythg is done for the … gay paras. In July, about a week after the Kreml phed through nstutnal amendments that clu fg marriage as a unn between a man and woman, Tsvetkova was fed for a send time unr the untry’s notor “gay propaganda” law and forced to pay 75, 000 Rubl ($1000) over her lorful illtratns of same-sex upl and their young children.