Elr: 'We Jt Had Gay Pri Month — Maybe It's Time for Let's Take It Easy on the Whe Man Month'

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• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• WE ARE FAY | GAY PRI CLASSICS MEGAMIX
• GAY PRI

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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.

ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’

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. 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.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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.

WE ARE FAY | GAY PRI CLASSICS MEGAMIX

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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Not that long ago, gay sex and wearg cloth signed for what society emed the “oppose” genr were outlawed and crimalized. The law was specifilly engeered to make queer liv impossible, siar to how more recent lawmakers have attempted to legislate away the rights of LGBTQ people to participate basic functns of civil society, like gettg married, g bathrooms, and playg reason that gay worlds like the one around Stonewall existed was bee members of different muni, sometim rejected by their own blogil fai, created new fns of what a fay uld be.