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- JUNE 28 MARKS 14 YEARS SCE THE POLICE RAID OF A FORT WORTH GAY BAR
- THE LEGACY OF FLORIDA'S MOST NOTOR GAY BAR RAIDS
- GAY RAID: POLICE EVICT MEN OM ABANDONED ST ANDREW HOME
JUNE 28 MARKS 14 YEARS SCE THE POLICE RAID OF A FORT WORTH GAY BAR
Twenty-five years ago, a rpt sheriff cracked down on South Florida's gay muny — and ma a media spectacle out of . Not only were adult patrons disgraced, unrage queer youth were arrted, trmatized, and mobilized. * gay raid *
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.
THE LEGACY OF FLORIDA'S MOST NOTOR GAY BAR RAIDS
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.
GAY RAID: POLICE EVICT MEN OM ABANDONED ST ANDREW HOME
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.