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Contents:
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- FAR CRY 6’S NARRATIVE DIRECTOR TALKS REPRENTATN, REVOLUTN AND A RETURN OF GAY OGS
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * far gay *
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.
Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. 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.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
Alliance Defendg Freedom distribut hundreds of thoands of dollars to ge groups attackg trans, gay and abortn rights * far gay *
“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.
FAR CRY 6’S NARRATIVE DIRECTOR TALKS REPRENTATN, REVOLUTN AND A RETURN OF GAY OGS
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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.
“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.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
SiegedSec, a group of gay furry hackers, took their skills to US ernments June, breachg agenci across five stat and to release data. * far gay *
In Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship.” This new law means that if Jean is disvered, she’ll be fired om her teachg posn.
Night Shyamalan’s latt thriller starred Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff as two gay dads who travel to a b wh their dghter for a ltle rt and relaxatn.
THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
After was origally supposed to be a Disney movie, Netflix soped up this stant classic about a gay supervilla and his shaphiftg sikick based on the award-wng graphic novel om ND Stevenson. Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll see.
Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay.