A gay rights activist says the new mosque and the legalizatn of gay marriage have sparked a willgns wh France’s Mlim muny to engage dialogue.
Contents:
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL
- GAY PORN'S ERIK RHOS IS DEAD AFTER SLOWLY DYG PUBLIC FOR YEARS
- PARIS GAY DISTRICT: LE MARAIS
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PARIS
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
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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.
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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. * eric paris gay *
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.
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As the only known out gay broadster profsnal baseball, Eric Bach is blazg a trail for LGBTQ sports media figur the summer game.
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However, Bach also admted that he’s unsure how many players the Natnals clubhoe know that he’s gay and that’s exacerbated his feelgs of self-nscns. While has been a stggle at tim and spe there beg no other out gay announcers baseball, Bach remas rolute to break through the glass ceilg and reprent the LGBTQ muny at the hight level of broadstg.
PARIS — When Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed announced his tentns to lnch the first gay-iendly mosque Paris, was difficult for him to image what lay mosque’s lnch November 2012 was a monumental step raisg awarens and providg a place of worship for Mlims who are also part of the LGBT muny. Dpe legalizg gay marriage jt over one year ago, France’s attus toward LGBT rights are mixed.
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A 2013 Pew Center survey found that 77 percent of people France thk society should accept homosexualy, down om 83 percent 2007. A 2009 Gallup poll found that 35 percent of Mlims France believe that homosexual acts are morally neher Zahed nor supporters enuntered physil harm followg the mosque’s lnch, he says the weeks and months followg were “tense.
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” He rells the first meetg of the associatn he found for gay Mlims France, HM2F, the basement of a fe as charged and tentative.
After the media attentn surroundg the announcement of the gay mosque, Zahed says he felt uneasy at home, particularly after his addrs was published the time of mosque’s lnch, a spokman for the Grand Mosque of Paris, one of the largt mosqu France, rpond by sayg that Zahed’s actns were not acrdance wh the the midst of France’s gay marriage bate last year, Dalil Boubakr, rector of the Grand Mosque, told a French rad statn that while he nmns homosexualy he do not ndone nsirs discsn around the issue to be enuragg. At the very least, he says, the ncept of a gay mosque and the legalizatn of gay marriage have sparked a willgns wh France’s Mlim muny to engage dialogue around LGBT nsirs the domtic and ternatnal media verage of the ncept to have been “dispensable” this evolutn, he says.
“It helped a lot unterg the ia that Mlims are not homosexual, or the ia that homosexuals reject Islam. He remembers beg mmerized by the bety of the Quran, by the “universalism” the nsirs himself a gay femist, two labels he nsirs patible wh Islam. “After more than 15 years of reflectn on the matter, I now unrstand that the Quran do not explicly refer to ‘homosexualy, ’ nor do refer to women as ‘ferr.
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He wr about this journey, and the difficulti growg up as a gay Mlim, his memoir, Le Coran et La Chair (The Quran and the Flh), published will also be lnchg a fah-based advocy group Cape Town, "Rumi's Isiphephelo.
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