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Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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. * alliance with the gay community *
The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.
He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Introductn The missn of the Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Queer (LGBTQ+) Alliance Fund is to foster charable givg support of novative programs and iativ that benef the LGBTQ+ muny Southern Arizona. Our donors, board and staff envisn a diverse and rg muny where philanthropy meets the needs of… * alliance with the gay community *
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.
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.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr & Queer (LGBTQ+) Alliance Fund, an iative of the Communy Foundatn for Southern Arizona (CFSA), is pleased to announce that $82,500 grants were award to fourteen regnal nonprofs to support novative programs and iativ that benef the LGBTQ+ muny Southern Arizona. This is… * alliance with the gay community *
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. Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy.
GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020
Effectively tellg the story of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr) life Fort Worth and Tarrant County is a challenge for many reasons, the biggt obstacle beg s slow transformatn om unspoken secrecy to gradual acceptance and muny visibily. Begng wh muny standards that marked homosexualy as a crime, leadg to an unrground culture fostered semi-gay spac (such as theaters and nightclubs that at tim employed female impersonators) and eventually explicly openly-queer spac such as gay nightclubs, the multi- evolutn of LGBT life remaed largely visible until the rise of “out” culture wh the muny progrsg to public activism and eventually morn-day acceptance.
In many ways, this gradual progrsn paralleled the gay stggle the Uned Stat the neteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuri, but was also— a number of rpects—specific to Texas, the Southwt and “Cowtown.
” Before the turn of the neteenth century and several s thereafter, documentatn of queer life was virtually nonexistent, due large part to the crimalized stat of beg openly gay.