Mexi's most famo gay sndal spotlighted a century later, Netflix movie

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• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
• THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

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. 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.

MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

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.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Groups of people, most of them gay men, many of them naked, amble down the beach toward a soarg rocky climb a wdg stairse, over the ragged cliff and down to a hidn ve known as Playa l Amor, or beach of love.

THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

”ImageFor s, this former fishg village turned hippie hangout has been an oasis for the queer muny, which is drawn to s goln beach, untercultural vibe and a practice of nudism that embrac bodi of all different as s populary has grown, attractg creasg numbers of gay and straight visors, the town is startg to transform: Foreigners are snatchg up land, hotels are multiplyg, fluencers are flockg to the beach and many rints and visors now fear that what once ma Zipole magil uld be lost for good. Jerr, who is gay. In Febary, Zipole elected the first openly gay person to head the town tolerant attus are rare outsi of big ci Mexi, where nservative Catholic valu persist.

Dpe gay marriage beg legalized more than half the untry, homophobic and transphobic vlence is mon. Between 2016 and 2020, some 440 lbian, gay and transgenr people were killed across the untry, acrdg to Letra Ese, an advocy group Mexi Mont Bernal, 33, grew up a few hours om Zipole a nservative muny where machismo and homophobia were entrenched.