Why Is Iced Coffee So Gay? | GQ

Contents:

• WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• YOUR INBOX IS HUNGRYENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRS BELOW TO GET FOOD NEWS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX.FOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYFOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYADVERTISEMENTFOOD NEWSGAY COFFEEBRIAN YAMAMOTONOV 26, 2011NO, THIS FFEE ISN'T EXCEPTNALLY HAPPY OR EXUBERANT (ALTHOUGH I GUS ULD BE?) THIS FFEE IS GENUE GAY COFFEE. WHAT EXACTLY MAK GAY COFFEE? A NUMBER THGS, ACTUALLY. FIRSTLY, THE PANY IS OWNED AND OPERATED AND OPERATED BY MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY. SENDLY, THEY RPORATE A NUMBER OF WILY REGNIZABLE GAY CLICH ALONG WH A FEW TID BS OF GAY CULTURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY ON THEIR PACKAGG AS MEANS OF EMPOWERMENT. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, A PORTN OF THE PROFS OM GAY COFFEE GO TOWARD FUNDG THE NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE.ADVERTISEMENTAS FOR THE FFEE, GAY COFFEE ROASTS THEIR FFEE SMALL 25 LB BATCH AND SIST ON G FAIR TRA, ANIC FFEE BEANS THEIR PRODUCT. GAY COFFEE FIVE DIFFERENT BLENDS, AND EACH PLETE WH A SHORT PARAGRAPH PROVIDG SOME SIGHT TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE GAY MUNY.SHARETWEETWE DELIVER!

WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?

It’s obv, people rpond: He’s gay. But none of that matters, after all; what was clear to the rner of the Inter known as Gay Twter, and to the se Gay Star News, was that this man was jt exercisg his rights—nay, his duty—as a gay man to drk iced ffee.

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

Iced ffee, you see, is gay culture [ed. Note: n nfirm] a piece published last October on the LGBTQ webse New Now Next, was noted that for the past two years on social media there’s been a steady flow of jok and mem about the gay muny’s affy for iced ffee. Acrdg to NNN, iced ffee is gay bee: portabily (cute cups), easy nsumptn (’s ld) and ctomizatn (you n pump full of sugar, or sugar-ee syp that is fely not givg you diabet).

YOUR INBOX IS HUNGRYENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRS BELOW TO GET FOOD NEWS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX.FOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYFOOD NEWSKCHEN LEAGUEBY FOODBEAST SHOPCONTACTPRIVACYADVERTISEMENTFOOD NEWSGAY COFFEEBRIAN YAMAMOTONOV 26, 2011NO, THIS FFEE ISN'T EXCEPTNALLY HAPPY OR EXUBERANT (ALTHOUGH I GUS ULD BE?) THIS FFEE IS GENUE GAY COFFEE. WHAT EXACTLY MAK GAY COFFEE? A NUMBER THGS, ACTUALLY. FIRSTLY, THE PANY IS OWNED AND OPERATED AND OPERATED BY MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY. SENDLY, THEY RPORATE A NUMBER OF WILY REGNIZABLE GAY CLICH ALONG WH A FEW TID BS OF GAY CULTURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY ON THEIR PACKAGG AS MEANS OF EMPOWERMENT. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, A PORTN OF THE PROFS OM GAY COFFEE GO TOWARD FUNDG THE NATNAL GAY AND LBIAN TASK FORCE.ADVERTISEMENTAS FOR THE FFEE, GAY COFFEE ROASTS THEIR FFEE SMALL 25 LB BATCH AND SIST ON G FAIR TRA, ANIC FFEE BEANS THEIR PRODUCT. GAY COFFEE FIVE DIFFERENT BLENDS, AND EACH PLETE WH A SHORT PARAGRAPH PROVIDG SOME SIGHT TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE GAY MUNY.SHARETWEETWE DELIVER!

The se pared to the stereotype of suburban moms and their nsumptn of pot grig; iced ffee is a gay ctch. While ’s hard the days to tly unrstand why anythg be a meme (this is wavg at the Babadook), there are a lot of portable, easily ctomizable thgs that e cute packagg that aren’t so closely aligned wh the gay muny.

(Although lookg back, actually, that was pretty gay.