Tammy Baldw, who is gay, nonted Mar Rub about llg same-sex marriage vote a 'stupid waste of time' | CNN Polics

Contents:

• LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS
• TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
• SEN. TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, SAYS SHE NONTED MAR RUB AN ELEVATOR AFTER HE SAID A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE WAS A 'STUPID WASTE OF TIME'
• BIN’S PRS SECRETARY CLAIMS LDSEY GRAHAM IS GAY
• 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
• ‘DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASS FLORIDA SENATE, HEADS TO GOVERNOR FOR SIGNATURE
• HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAST AMERI’S FIRST GAY CABET SECRETARY

LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS

“Our cultural mastream unrstandg and acceptance of lbian and gay people has progrsed much more than our unrstandg of bi and trans people, and this electn cycle has been really important. I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.

Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’

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.

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.

SEN. TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, SAYS SHE NONTED MAR RUB AN ELEVATOR AFTER HE SAID A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE WAS A 'STUPID WASTE OF TIME'

“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.

“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.

“I a’t gay. Graham “a’t gay, ” by whatever ntorted fn that impli. He’s had plenty of gay moments, though.

BIN’S PRS SECRETARY CLAIMS LDSEY GRAHAM IS GAY

Here are the top 10 gayt, orr of appearance:. In 2010, Robert Draper of The New York Tim reported a profile of the senator that “durg a South Carola Tea Party rally this sprg, one speaker created an uproar by postulatg that Graham supported a gut-worker program out of fear that the Democrats might otherwise expose his homosexualy.

‘I know ’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men — I’m sure hundreds of ’em are gonna be jumpg off the Goln Gate Bridge — but I a’t available. I a’t gay. Ambiguoly Gay.

17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS

At a news nference after the signg, Feliciano said this, “It’s about time that South Carola says, ‘Hey, we’re tired of the ambiguoly gay senator om South Carola. While Miller don’t speculate, mt’ve n through the bachelor-senator’s md that he was stg alone, late at night, we glass hand, wh the only out, gay Republin operative the bs. “To the extent that matters, I’m not gay.

‘DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASS FLORIDA SENATE, HEADS TO GOVERNOR FOR SIGNATURE

In 2020, @SeanHardgXXX tweeted: “There is a homophobic republin senator who is no better than Tmp who keeps passg legislatn that is damagg to the lgbt and mory muni. A media enzy ensued, wh gay Hollywood fixer Howard Bragman weighg , pl lumnist Dan Savage, and Michelangelo Signorile, who remd everyone of the dangers associated wh “outg”.

What will the ndidat do to ensure our rights are protected — the rights of the gay people, married the state of South Carola? The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc.

“It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said. Bee I've been wrg this lumn for several years, and get to talk to lots of amazg people, my iends, mostly the straight on, like to quiz me about who's gay, who's not, and who's the fishg expedn is mostly generatnal, sce 's mostly my ntemporari who quire about the sexualy of celebri and policians. Those of who are LGBTQ+ and over 50, still look on wh low-level shock when someone we know announc they are straight people this mographic, beg gay, or beg the closet is still somethg that they sensatnalize.

HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAST AMERI’S FIRST GAY CABET SECRETARY

He's often acced of gay- bag, but if he were to e out tomorrow and say he was a relatnship wh a man, most young people would simply ngratulate him. When I worked there, I, like many, knew who was the closet maly bee we'd see them a gay bar or knew someone that had a relatnship wh them. There really were no secrets on the example, most of knew former Wisns ngrsman Steve Gunrson was gay before he was outed on the Hoe floor.

Bob Dornan joked about Gunrson on the floor of the Hoe of Reprentativ durg a bate on a bill that would have disuraged school districts om adoptg gay-iendly curricula.

"Clearly, we were livg different and difficult tim regardg public officials beg openly gay, " Gunrson told me.