Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny.
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NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
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Homosexualy has been legal Japan sce 1880, and the untry is relatively liberal pared wh some other Asian natns. Support for sexual diversy has grown slowly Japan, and legal protectns are still lackg for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.
Wh gay marriage banned Japan, Takashi Otsa saw so few legal optns that he cid to legally adopt his same-sex partner. While the partnership is still a far cry om legalizg gay marriage, Otsa said he feels reprents hope that marriage may be possible down the road. Tokyo’s Shibuya and Setagaya wards beme the first lol ernments to troduce a system to regnize same-sex upl November 2015.
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more.
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light's disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. * japan gay partnership *
Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg .
He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children. “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.
A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June. Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy.