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Contents:
- THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
- AMERIN AIRL’ GAY-FRIENDLY SKI
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- MARK MORRO DISCS THE STATE OF LGBTQ+ INCLN AVIATN AND HIS LEGACY AS AN OPENLY GAY AIRLE CEO AND INDTRY CHAIRMAN
- AMERIN AIRL CUTS JOBS BUT SPONSORS GAY EVENTS
THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
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The historic flight took off on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn raids, which are nsired one of the first major events of the gay rights and liberatn movement the flight parted Philalphia Internatnal Airport (PHL) for New York-LaGuardia (LGA) and was operated wh an Embraer E-190. The Gay-Friendlit Airl the SkiThis post ntas referenc to products om one or more of our advertisers.
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AMERIN AIRL’ GAY-FRIENDLY SKI
As we wrap up Natnal LGBT Pri Month — and celebrate SCOTUS' momento lg for gay marriage —I'm takg an -pth look at which airl are showg their te rabow lors. While we n never top the always-hilar Pam Ann's A-to-Z Airle Gui, here's a look at the gay-iendlit airl the THAT's a iendly sky! In the hands of another pany, s 2010 PR mpaign to have the first -flight gay and lbian weddg ceremoni would have been nothg more than a stunt.
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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
The airle was certaly ahead of the pack 2007 wh s Pk Flight, which featured a drag queen stewarss, pk airplane food and a shirtls petn on s way om SFO to the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras the plane got primped! Photo urty of Peapple then 2010, an otherwise amg -flight safety vio featurg the All Blacks gby team had a weirdly homophobic moment (start at 2:55) that sparked enough plats to have the vio pulled.
Among the are Athlete Ally, Boston Gay Men's Chos, Empire State Pri Agenda, Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn, New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, PFLAG NYC, Transgenr Legal Defense & Edutn Fund and pri celebratns at s foc ci Long Beach, CA and San Juan, Puerto Ri. Fort Worth, TexasGee Carrancho, 43, manag Amerin Airl’ Rabow Team, the first dited LGBT sal staff and Web se to target the $65 billn Amerin gay and lbian travel dtry. Our events lendar lists as many gay-themed natnal events as we n, om Human Rights Campaign dners to roos, and ’s a major draw for visors.
MARK MORRO DISCS THE STATE OF LGBTQ+ INCLN AVIATN AND HIS LEGACY AS AN OPENLY GAY AIRLE CEO AND INDTRY CHAIRMAN
He was raped and molted as a young boy, and that he prayed to God to take away his ss and thoughts that rulted homosexual tennciHis life spiraled out of ntrol, and he beme a sexual addict and turned to pornography He thought sexual thoughts about both men and women and started msg around wh others who had siar tennciHe started thkg of ways to end his life so that he wouldn’t hurt anyone elseHe married a woman but uldn’t tell her about his pa and stggle wh homosexualyOver a year to the marriage be gave to the prsure of beg gay, and he asked other gay crew members qutns about their liftyle and what led them to bee gayHe then started takg part that liftyle, and would have sex wh men and e home om work trips as if nothg happenedHe wants to share the love of Christ wh passengers, and if people feel unfortable that’s fe, but he said he’d be the gate area for people who want to talk. And perhaps part of that is acceptg that ’s okay to be gay, and that beg gay isn’t a “liftyle” you n pray yourself out of, and his fellow lleagu weren’t “led” to beg gay, they were jt born that way.
No one should be subjected to havg to hear this, how homosexualy is a choice, etc.
New York (CNN) — 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.
AMERIN AIRL CUTS JOBS BUT SPONSORS GAY EVENTS
“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. 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.