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Contents:
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * the homosexual community *
The rults of the poll show that “over half of all Amerins timate that at least one five Amerins are gay or lbian, cludg 35 percent who timated that one four are. ”Only 4 of the people qutned gave the answer “ls than 5 percent” – which means 96 percent of the people qutned got fact, most current studi show that the number of gay- and lbian-intified people is somewhere between 1 percent and 3 percent of the populatn.
” Dpe no real evince to support , spe the fact that Ksey’s report never said that 10 percent of the populatn was homosexual, and spe the fact his rearch was statistilly accurate and methodologilly promised, the myth of 10 percent ntued. ‘We ed that figure when most gay people were entirely hidn to try to create an imprsn of our numerons, ’ says Tom Stoddard, former head of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund. I thk the reason most people overtimate their numbers are bee gay- and lbian-intified people have done a terrific job of promotg their agenda over the past 40 years.
Here’s jt a short ndown of some of the elements this: * The lbian-, gay-, bisexual-, and transgenr-intified (LGBT) muny has a number of simple, lorful and easily regnized symbols that are monly seen — the pk triangle, the rabow flag, the equal sign, red ribbons for HIV/AIDS. * LGBT-intified folks are known for big celebratns, lavish fundraisers, and numero paras: “Gay Pri” events, LGBT film ftivals and “circu parti” now ver the entire lendar — om January to December — and occur ci and untri around the globe, om Mri to Bulgaria, om Estonia to Brazil. * LGBT “holidays” have been proclaimed all through the lendar: Ally Week, Celebrate Bisexualy Day, Day of Silence, Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Pri month, LGBT History Month, Transgenr Day of Remembrance … and the list ntu to grow and to be celebrated, often acpanied by printial, state and lol proclamatns and endorsements.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
The top 13 untri wh the biggt gay populatns are surprisgly very rarely the list of untri where gay marriage is legal. Click to skip ahead and jump to the top 5 untri wh the biggt gay populatns. The gay populatns has e a long way om beg persecuted for simply existg across the world, […] * the homosexual community *
* Thoands of LGBT groups and anizatns have been formed: Gay-straight allianc lol schools, lol pri centers, legal groups, polil advocy groups, parents’ groups, health anizatns, thk tanks, foundatns, church, groups wh church, choirs — and much more.
* Hollywood and Broadway have gladly jumped on the gay bandwagon, wh televisn, movi and theatre creasg the number of LGBT characters and them. Ined, an actor who portrays a gay or lbian — pecially one who di, go to prison, or is mentally or physilly disabled — is showered wh kudos and celebrated for “beg brave” and “phg the envelope. * Most of the ma-stream media ters to the LGBT agenda and adopts their language — anyone that disagre wh this agenda is “homophobic, ” “anti-gay, ” or “bigoted.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
It’s pretty easy to see why many Amerins thk that 25 percent or more of the populatn is gay or lbian: “If there were only 10 percent some years ago, surely that number has creased!
But a wi variety of studi suggts the number of men and women who self-intify as gay or lbian is somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of the populatn. 6 percent intifyg as Gat, om the Williams Instute, an LGBT thk tank, averaged five different US studi together and suggts that lbian, gay and bisexual men and women make up 3.
3The same report c other studi om Canada, Atralia, the Uned Kgdom and Norway, as shown below, rpectively: * Adults self-intifyg as lbian or gay: 1. 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.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
“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. 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. 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.
TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
“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.
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.
Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete.
Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular. Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player.