Gay Young - Hope and Carg Cancer Fund - Edmonton Communy Foundatn

Contents:

• GAY DATG EDMONTON
• GAY YOUNG – HOPE AND CARG CANCER FUND
• MOVG TO LGBT EDMONTON, ALBERTA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY, LBIAN YOUTH TOO OFTEN END UP ON STREETS

GAY DATG EDMONTON

Fill out the form below to ntribute a one-time donatn, or set up a recurrg monthly donatn to the Gay Young ~ Hope and Carg Cancer Fund. Donate to the Gay Young - Hope and Carg Cancer Fund. His thirst for tn led Ralph and his wife Gay to Edmonton 1969 to plete the Universy of Alberta’s Master of Bs Admistratn program.

GAY YOUNG – HOPE AND CARG CANCER FUND

Ralph and Gay support many philanthropic iativ through their fay funds at the Edmonton Communy Foundatn.

In addn to servg as s Print 1990-91 and servg on s board of directors, Ralph and Gay have hosted ne Rotary exchange stunts, faiarizg the young people wh Canadian culture. Today, he enjoys dividg his time between Edmonton and Canmore, alongsi Gay, his children, Marnie and Ross and his ne grandchildren. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

MOVG TO LGBT EDMONTON, ALBERTA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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. 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.

GAY, LBIAN YOUTH TOO OFTEN END UP ON STREETS

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.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. 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. This is why a gay realtor Edmonton is worth their weight gold as they n help you fd your new perfect home here the most gay-iendly neighborhood possible.