New 'gay water' looks to avoid Bud Light disaster - Washgton Tim

Contents:

• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY PARTI AND EVENTS WASHGTON DC
• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• A GAY NIGHTCLUB ULD MAKE A RETURN TO D.C. — A FORMER BAPTIST CHURCH
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• STEEP PRICE: GAY SEX CLUB CLOS AFTER FATAL INJURY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY USA

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!). Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women.

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.

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.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

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Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. Male Strippers UnleashedGet Punished - Male Explosn - Weekly Male Revue Show Washgton DCFriday • 8:00 PM + 126 moreGet Punished - Male Explosn Strip ShowGet Punished - Male Explosn - Weekly Male Revue Show Washgton DCFriday • 8:00 PM + 126 moreGet Punished - Male Explosn Strip ShowSleazeThursday • 10:00 PMDC9 NightclubSleazeThursday • 10:00 PMDC9 NightclubEbony Men Black Male Revue Strip Clubs & Black Male Strippers Washgton DcFriday • 8:00 PM + 43 moreEbony Men Black Male Strippers Washgton DCEbony Men Black Male Revue Strip Clubs & Black Male Strippers Washgton DcFriday • 8:00 PM + 43 moreEbony Men Black Male Strippers Washgton DCGay Men Speed Datg Washgton DC | Sgl Event | Fancy a Go?

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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.

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“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. 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 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. > Gay USA > Gay Washgton DC Gay Parti and Events Washgton DCCheck out our roundup of the bt gay parti, gay club nights, gay pris and other gay events Washgton DC today, this week and this weekend. Across the street om Kiki and Dirty Goose, unaffiliated gay tablishment Nellie’s Sports Bar ma negative headl this June after a secury guard asslted a Black woman.

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Growg up Wyomg, before he me out as gay, John Guggenmos was raised Southern Baptist, attendg church every Sunday and prayer servic every Wednday he unrstands, he said, that some people, cludg some of his relativ, might take issue wh his newt bs venture: a gay nightclub si a former Baptist church. ”Guggenmos was one of the origal -owners of the gay nightclub Town Danceboutique, nsired a mastay the District’s LGBTQ muny for more than a before shut s doors last summer, a sualty of the gentrifitn helped spur. There no longer seemed to be a place where gay people as young as 18 uld fortably dance through the appears that a new versn of Town is returng to the District, this time the former St.

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”Most importantly, he said he wants to create a space where young gay people n dance and sg and watch drag shows and know they won’t be judged.

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Although younger members of the gay muny seem much more open and self-assured than when Guggenmos was growg up, he said, “they still need to know that whatever they are gog through, there are other people gog through .

”In a way, Guggenmos se the new lotn — wh s mandg prence and natural light — as the next wave for gay nightlife the District, where jt s ago the muny was relegated to wdowls clubs warehoe se had been the home of St. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots. ”The man’s jury was staed durg the regular activi of the club, which clu nightly gay sex events lled “Men’s Parti, ” as well as meetgs of the “Jack Off Enthiasts of Washgton and Baltimore.

” The accint has drawn public scty over the private meetgs, as well as a fense: Followg the ath, the club’s anizer told police that his tablishment provis “a safe place for gay men to have nsensual sex. At 1618 14th St., “safe” means ensurg anonymo sex for a group of gay men sportg weddg rgs, sensive reers, or a “men’s social club, ” the regularly schled activi clud ltle socializg.