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• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
• THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

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.

THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN

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.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO DATG AFTER 50

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.

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If you've been lookg for a way to meet other OlrGay members near you, you n now schle a meetup to get everyone together. "Y, but you know, Gaga is wonrful, " San said durg an terview wh Gayle Kg for CBS This Morng. He dulged me by followg Lra Dern around stead of lookg at the garns, which was fely not the first time she had been stalked by gay men at a garn party.

This kd of thg happened a uple dozen more tim my early I started wrg my short film Call Your Father, I wanted to not jt wre mentary on gay men, but I also wanted to figure out why I was nsistently drawn to guys around that age. I thk 's somethg gay men don't talk about enough.

From the moment you realize as a gay man who you are, whether 's a challengg procs or not, you know (maybe subnscly) that a lot of the world hat you. Most gay men never reach the end of this procs, and many never characters Call Your Father stggle eply wh nfince -- a stggle on one si maniftg self real mental health issu and on the other maniftg a lack of nnectn to the world and himself. The gay nfince issue is both sad and tertg to me.

I thk 's what mak gay men so betiful but also troublg. I thk I uld do well wh FIRSTMAN is the director of Call Your Father, a short film about an tergeneratnal gay date. Hillsi Campground is a mpg statn that has been servg the gay male muny for over 30 years!