Alai Uned midfielr Josh Cavallo is the first openly gay footballer after g out October 2021
Contents:
- GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR
- FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ANNOUNC ROLE NEW RUPL'S DRAG RACE SERI
- IS RUPL GAY? WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY?
- GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'
GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR
Out gay Atralian soccer player Josh Cavallo announced he will be a judge on the upg season of RuPl’s Drag Race Down Unr. “As the first openly gay male profsnal football player, embracg your thentic self means eedom but for so many of the queer muny this isn’t as easy as you thk, ” Cavallo wrote his post.
“I’m a footballer and I’m gay.
”The followg January Cavallo spoke of the homophobic abe he received om fans at a game. “I’m not gog to pretend I didn’t see or hear the homophobic abe at the game last night, ” Cavallo wrote the post. There’s nothg wrong wh that, bee drag isn’t jt for gay boys.
FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ANNOUNC ROLE NEW RUPL'S DRAG RACE SERI
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.
IS RUPL GAY? WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY?
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. 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.
GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'
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. Alai Uned midfielr Josh Cavallo is the first openly gay footballer after g out October 2021Josh is jog the Ru Pl's Drag Race stThe first famo footballer to e out at openly gay is set to take on a role a new Ru Pl's Drag Race seri.