Gay Water, a new nned cktail, wants to be the anti-Bud Light | CNN Bs

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• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JUDGE ORRS U.S. TO RETURN GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER PORTED TO CHAD
• GAY CHAT GROUP NAM: 600+ CATCHY AND COOL NAM

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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“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.

JUDGE ORRS U.S. TO RETURN GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER PORTED TO CHAD

“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. 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.

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“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.

Chad looks set to bee the 37th untry Ai to outlaw homosexualy after ernment misters voted to make same-sex relatns a crime punishable by up to 20 years cisn, yet to be ratified by the untry’s print, was nmned by human rights groups as another setback the stggle for gay rights on the ntent. Graeme Reid, director of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights programme at Human Rights Watch, said: “This is a setback for legal reform Chad – the revisns to the penal are tend to tegrate natnal law wh ternatnal law, whereas this provisn would do exactly the oppose.

“By crimalisg homosexualy, Chad’s proposed penal is an stment of discrimatn, not of jtice, ” said s print, Kerry Kennedy. “This is very good news, which is unfortunately marred by the crimalisatn of homosexualy, ” Florent Geel, Ai director of the Internatnal Feratn of Human Rights, was quoted as sayg by the Gay Star News webse. “Crimalisg homosexualy seems discrimatory, magogic and unter-productive, as may turn groups agast each other.

”Geel add that the reform of the penal had been preparatn for 10 years but the qutn of homosexualy, while nsired immoral, had never been an issue velopment is part of a wave of homophobia sweepg across Ai.

Some observers believe may have been a rponse to the creased visibily and assertivens of gay liftyl and polics Ai, though US evangelil Christians have been wily blamed for stigatg dranian anti-gay legislatn Uganda and other untri. Same-sex relatns are illegal 36 of the ntent’s 54 untri, acrdg to Amnty Internatnal, and punishable by ath month the Gambia passed a bill imposg life imprisonment for “aggravated homosexualy” relatg to repeat offenrs and people livg wh HIV/Aids. The Gambia’s print, Yahya Jammeh, has prevly told gay men and lbians to leave the untry or risk recently attempted to impose dranian penalti for the “promotn of homosexualy”, cludg life sentenc for var same sex acts.