Jennifer Egan article on how Inter offers refuge to gay teenagers; scrib onle life of closeted gay teen small Southern town; holds Inter has revolutnized experience of growg up gay, givg isolated homosexual youths accs to people like themselv wh whom they n chat, exchange msag and even engage (onle) sex; drawgs (M)
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THROUGH THE INTER, GAY TEENS CONNECTED TO LARGER COMMUNY
Chat rooms and webs offered support for many gay kids growg up small towns the 1990s who felt tached om their peers. In the span of 20 years the same Louisiana town, one teen today has had a very different experience than a woman who grew up there the '80s. * teen gay boy chat room *
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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. 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.”.