Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
Contents:
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- #TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
- GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
* gay moustache look *
The Gay Mtache. Gay men practilly owned the mtache the '70s, and now 's bee a symbol of men's health issu celebrated every year durg Movember.
In honor of our hairy history, we prent the big gay mtach of our past. Forster whheld publitn of his groundbreakg gay romance novel Mrice until after his ath. Meet the facial-hair style takg over every gay bar the cy.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
The skny ’stache n be seen at gay bars across the cy — om more normative bars playg Drag Race on Thursday nights to famo queer clubs Bhwick and sticky sex bars the Village.
We all have the mtache right now, ” said Jt about his new facial hair outsi an East Village gay bar. From a queer perspective, the mtache’s associatn wh sexual viancy also pots to the “Castro clon” of the ’80s: mascule gay men who drsed alike, slept together, and were eventually undone and vilified by society durg the AIDS crisis.
#TBT: THE GAY MTACHE
If this mtache had s own mood board, might clu Freddie Mercury, a few shots of the Castro s heyday, and a vtage gay-porn image.
“It really do somethg for people that fs to the bill of our ’80s gay male porn fantasy. 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.
GAY HISTORY: WHEN DID WE TURN ON THE MOTACHE?
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. ” Trends the gay muny, he says, aren’t that different om the straight world. “Back the seventi, the mtache was an inic gay symbol; that’s how you uld intify gay men, ” says John.