Hey there! I’m a fairly young gay man (24) who recently got diagnosed wh HSV2. Lookg back, I know Grdr has been a vector for promiscuo hookups wh the gay muny, and even if I wore ndoms, I regnize the realy that is fairly evable given the numbers game we play the g...
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- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
- MEN WH HERP
- HERP: MORE GAY MEN ARE FECTED WH THE VIS
- US STUDY FDS GENAL HERP NEAR DOUBL RISK OF ACQUIRG HIV GAY MEN
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
* living with herpes as a gay man *
I hontly don't believe that hsv is more prevalent the gay muny.
I don't even tst the statistics much bee I know some gays that are terrified of g out or publicly disclosg their sexualy. But if gay men tly had more herp fectns than other men, I hontly would blame a society that's mistreatg and banishg them. But some gay man get evicted by fay for beg themselv, so they don't even get a chance to be rmed about STIs by their parents.
MEN WH HERP
Anyhow, I hope you fd some gay men here. 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.
HERP: MORE GAY MEN ARE FECTED WH THE VIS
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.
US STUDY FDS GENAL HERP NEAR DOUBL RISK OF ACQUIRG HIV GAY MEN
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.