U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was "an appallg failure of the Brish state."
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- A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE
- UKRAE’S GAY SOLDIERS FIGHT RSIA—AND FOR THEIR RIGHTS
- GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
A GAY UKRAIAN ARY UPLE ENGAGED ONLY DAYS AGO IS BEG PULLED APART TO FACE THE FEAR AND HEARTACHE OF BAT ALONE
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A gay Ukraian ary uple that got engaged only days ago is headg off to bat. The young gay uple began datg last year after Rsia lnched s vasn of told Insir, urty of translator Maxim Potapovych, that they met on a datg app. Though neher told anyone they were gay, Pasha relled experiencg homophobia and discrimatn om the other soldiers his first few weeks at a trag Rsia vad, Ukrae's stance on LGBTQ rights was murky.
Gay marriage and adoptn weren't legal, and although they still aren't, Print Volodymyr Zelensky has sce suggted same-sex civil partnerships uld be revised after the war. There was also varyg public opn on genr and sexual orientatn, although anti-discrimatn laws offered some protectn, and homosexual relatns weren't legal Ukrae until 1991. 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. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
UKRAE’S GAY SOLDIERS FIGHT RSIA—AND FOR THEIR RIGHTS
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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 WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY
“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.