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Indulge gay nostalgia wh Christa Aguilera and Junr Vasquez, see Billy Porter march, or dance the night away at Body Hack. * gay new york pride *
An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.
The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * gay new york pride *
The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.
“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add.
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * gay new york pride *
Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.
“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said. Indulge gay nostalgia wh Christa Aguilera and Junr Vasquez, see Billy Porter march, or dance the night away at Body annual Pri March on June 26, 2022, Rs/The New York TimNew York Cy’s official Pri theme this year is Strength Solidary, an apt remr that Pri was born as a prott movement agast bigotry wherever manifts. Artists, and Body Hack, a mutual aid project for transgenr and nonbary groups, are anizg a party at Nowadays on June ViceGen Xers who me of age New York are for two dos of gay nostalgia this month.