We and Unwd: South Shore Gay Men's Cordial Meetup | Meetup

Contents:

• GAY PRO-WRTLER ANTHONY BOWENS MAK HISTORY WH EPIC AEW TLE W AND FANS ARE OVERJOYED
• CASE STUDY: "GAY" W
• WE AND UNWD: SOUTH SHORE GAY MEN'S CORDIAL MEETUP
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THAIS CELEBRATE GAY-SERI STAR’S MIC BUT
• GAYMG AWARDS 2022 WNERS: THE FULL LIST
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

GAY PRO-WRTLER ANTHONY BOWENS MAK HISTORY WH EPIC AEW TLE W AND FANS ARE OVERJOYED

Anthony Bowens has bee the first openly gay male profsnal wrtler to bee champn All Ele Wrtlg (AEW) after he won s tag-team champnships. | Majcule WeJeff Davis and Greg BrickeyCo-owners/wemakers, Majcule We“We are a gay, married uple, ” says Jeff Davis, one half of the hband-hband team behd Napa’s Majcule We.

Whether person or on our webse, we prent our thentic selv to every ctomer, yet many don’t realize we’re a gay uple or dwell on . ”Courty of Josh DelongonJosh DelongonSommelier and -founr of Endls Wt Spirs“I remember brgg a we textbook to a dg class and readg about the cs of Bejolais stead of whatever else we were learng that day, ” says gay Filipo-Canadian sommelier Josh Delongon, reflectg on the wdg trajectory that led to his current rol as -founr of spirs pany Endls Wt and manager of Blackwell's W and Spirs San Francis.

” Whether he’s guidg folks toward unexpected purchas at the shop or, more famoly, makg hilar—not to mentn super rmative—vios on Instagram as @sommeligay, Delongon is on a missn to queer the we world jt about every way possible. ”“In the world of stereotypil ‘gay’ jobs, pleasure-centric reers like drag queens, fashn signers, or mm curators, we never name the sommelier, the flavor analogue of such exampl, ” m Delongon. Of all the many teemed we-producg regns North Ameri, wtern Sonoma County - particular the area between Healdsburg and the Rsian River rort area - stands out not only for s superb weri and stunng natural scenery, but also for havg a tremendo gay followg.

CASE STUDY: "GAY" W

A group of Californian gay we enthiasts created Out the Veyard 2011, “an experiential We Country Event and Travel pany promotg posive LGBT liftyl and offerg exclive, luxury erari and events We Country for the discerng gay traveler and their iends. Their webse says: "Égalé’s missn is not only to be the bt we to toast Equaly for gay Amerins, but also to help LGBTQ youth nquer life's challeng.

As Amerin attus towards gay people have improved - later than most of the Wtern world - the prence of "gays we", always there but largely visible, has bee clearer: not jt the dtry self, but their marketg approach as well. Acrdg to the Journal of Studi on Alhol and Dgs some 75% of gays and lbians were scribed as "current drkers, " as pared to 68% of bisexuals and 59% of heterosexuals.

WE AND UNWD: SOUTH SHORE GAY MEN'S CORDIAL MEETUP

"Historilly, so much gay drkg went on gay bars bee there was virtually nowhere else where gays uld socialize, " thor Sharon Wilsnack says. When Jab’s Creek beme exclive advertiser on the TV-show Friends, Diageo's Blossom Hill reacted by sponsorg Will en Grace, the gay (beloved) TV-seri - at USD 1, 000, 000 for the n of 24 episos (the bottle and glass set pictured on the left uld have been signed for that, but wasn't). "There's no qutn that marketg to the gay muny is different than marketg to, say, ultra-right-wg relig nservativ, but while the labels may change, you n serve them up the same we - 's got nothg to do wh what's ** the bottle.

" She received hundreds of posive emails rponse to a wery ad nng gay publitns that shows a field of v beg irrigated, wh the risg mist creatg the effect of a rabow.

A number of weri have n their natnal ads gay publitns like The Advote and Out, but Clos du Bois was the first to create ads specifilly for gay nsumers and make a staed ph to the gay market, said Michael Wilke of AdRpect. Beli Veyard, a Napa Valley wery, had n s mastream ads gay and lbian publitns for two years, but by 2001 had not yet veloped ads tailored for the muny. Domae Chandon (the foreign label of Moët & Chandon) unveiled three new variatns of s "Drk " prt mpaign 2001, for the first time targetg the gay muny wh an ad appearg The Advote and Out.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Prevly, the mother brand Moët & Chandon released the 'gay vague' mercial One Sound 1997, and ed same-sex imag 2006 a mpagne lled Be Fabulo. It was marketed as the “world's first gay we” (review: “It's uy, pk-hued, requir a certa taste and is targeted at the gay muny”).

The se scribed s foc this way: “Sommelier is a We Intert style BLOG se targetg the Gay nsumer that go far beyond the basic “We Crique” to tail riche experienc We, Cuise, Travel, Luxury Goods, Art and Mic… all wh a ltle lighthearted risqué mischief.

Come out to Merryvale" - after havg sponsored a number of gay events the prev months, some events takg place the wery's 'sacred' cellars. Merryvale's cisn to reach out to gay nsumers, ma at the stigatn of proprietor Jack Schlatter and Print Peter Huwiler, is part sal strategy, part social statement.

THAIS CELEBRATE GAY-SERI STAR’S MIC BUT

One outf takg a no-holds-barred approach to marketg was the gay owned Rabow Ridge W (Palm Sprgs, California), a small wery lnched March 2003 wh a we ma om the unual red grape Alinte Bochet, and the advertisg slogan "We're Comg Out. A “gay we” was also troduced Argenta 2006 (four years before the troductn of same sex marriage): Pilot, no ls than five varieti.

The same fate was btowed upon another Hispanic gay we: Mundo Gay, om the Spanish regn of Ribera l Duero, prented after the troductn of same-sex marriage Spa, by Bogas y Viñedos Robeal. He started out wantg to make a rosé we that would be lled the gay we of Malpierre, one of the lol place nam, but uld not, bee of AOC regulatns. 'So then I thought would be fun to make a happy we, somethg ftive, as happy which is what gay ed to mean the middle ag, ' he said.

GAYMG AWARDS 2022 WNERS: THE FULL LIST

W is a le of three w (Ánima Blan, Antoo and Oscura) created wh homosexual men md, and s scriptns, packagg and webse imagery were all tailored acrdgly.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

And then there were products like Gay Rosé by Oregon's Naked Wery ("we aim to tease" - now lled Evoke Wery), Marry Me by the Save Me San Francis We Co., the Argentean Ariris (rabow) we, and Californian Dancg Bull sponsorg GLAAD.