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Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• CONOR COADY EXCLIVE: OPENLY GAY PLAYER AT TOP LEVEL WOULD BE ACCEPTED "WHOUT A DOUBT"
• TIKTOKERS ACCED OF HAVG SEPARATE GAY & STRAIGHT PROFIL
• BRA'S FIRST TIKTOK HOE GAY UPLE FLY FLAG FOR LGBT+ REPRENTATN UNR LOCKDOWN
• CONOR COADY EXCLIVE: OPENLY GAY PLAYER AT TOP LEVEL WOULD BE ACCEPTED "WHOUT A DOUBT"

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

A Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio dropped alongsi the song, settg the ter ablaze for s heady pictn of a sticky, sexy, very gay summer. His srlet templ suggt he’s eher taken a big ol’ huff of the poppers his song oh-so-cleverly referenc, or he’s the thro of homosexual exultatn (anal).

CONOR COADY EXCLIVE: OPENLY GAY PLAYER AT TOP LEVEL WOULD BE ACCEPTED "WHOUT A DOUBT"

The image remds of the work of Peter Hujar, specifilly Orgasmic Man, 1969, a photo that was recently repurposed for the ver of another gay cultural artefact, the Hanya Yanagihara novel A Ltle Life.

TIKTOKERS ACCED OF HAVG SEPARATE GAY & STRAIGHT PROFIL

The mic vio for “Rh” is a gay men’s mag e to life, as if Andy om Toy Story kept a stack of XY the rner over Woody and Buzz. A reference to the XY chromosome found blogil mal (a tad sentialist, but we move) XY magaze was a youth-foced gay magaze found Wt Hollywood 1996, and featured chiselled lads edorials full of brash, primary lours.

It’s homoerotic and ’s goofball-d, like sports fans who get dnk at the Euros and ci to moon and slap their iends’ bums until the blood vsels burst at the surface. It’s got all the trappgs of a Caravagg patg – the drama, the dynamism, light and sha, pretty gay boys. Caravagg was, of urse, a gay man himself, so ’s not too far-fetched to suggt they’d slip the reference .

One of them is a homosexual LGBTQ fluencer named Cooper, who released a vio om the Whe Hoe showsg his role, but has been referred to as “crge” by crics.

BRA'S FIRST TIKTOK HOE GAY UPLE FLY FLAG FOR LGBT+ REPRENTATN UNR LOCKDOWN

New York (CNN) — 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. 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.

CONOR COADY EXCLIVE: OPENLY GAY PLAYER AT TOP LEVEL WOULD BE ACCEPTED "WHOUT A DOUBT"

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.

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.