This Is What It's Like To Travel As A Gay Asian Man

Contents:

• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS JAPAN IS GAG MOMENTUM
• YOUNG ASIAN GAY UPLE HUG AND KISS AT HOME. ATTRACTIVE ASIAN LGBTQ PRI MEN HAPPY RELAX SPEND ROMANTIC TIME TOGETHER WHILE LYG SOFA LIVG ROOM NCEPT. SLOW MOTN SHOT.
• THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO TRAVEL AS A GAY ASIAN MAN

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

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.

CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS

“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.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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.”.

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

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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.

YOUNG ASIAN GAY UPLE HUG AND KISS AT HOME. ATTRACTIVE ASIAN LGBTQ PRI MEN HAPPY RELAX SPEND ROMANTIC TIME TOGETHER WHILE LYG SOFA LIVG ROOM NCEPT. SLOW MOTN SHOT.

Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St.

THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO TRAVEL AS A GAY ASIAN MAN

New York Mayor Bill De Blas march the Gay Pri Para on June 28, 2015 New York Cy. Gabriel Anrson march wh Suts for Equaly durg the 45th annual San Francis Gay Pri para Sunday, June 28, 2015, San Francis.

A woman wearg a stume walks away om Turkish rt police durg the Gay Pri para on June 28, 2015 the Istiklal street near the Taksim square Istanbul.