Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did.
Contents:
- DEAD BY DAYLIGHT MA ONE OF S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS GAY, AND OPNS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO TAKE ON BIG GAY
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- HOW DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS BEME SO WONRFULLY GAY
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
DEAD BY DAYLIGHT MA ONE OF S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS GAY, AND OPNS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE
The velopers of Dead by Daylight announced on Wednday that David Kg, a character troduced to the game 2017, is gay. Reactns ranged om joyful to outraged, and a Redd thread discsg * is bdg gay *
So is Brian gay or what? One day I’m nvced he’s gay, one day I thk ’s straight. The velopers of Dead by Daylight announced on Wednday that David Kg, a character troduced to the game 2017, is gay.
"Homophobia will not be tolerated, if you see any, please report , " a mod wrote the thread. "Upon nsultg extensively wh the GaymerX anizatn, who shared their expertise at tegratg LGBTQIA2+ them to tablished gam, we felt nfint our chosen directn.
Some would have preferred that a new character had been troduced, wh one argument beg that isn't impossible to thk that David Kg was chosen at random as a token gay character, given his existg backstory.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. * is bdg gay *
Like I'm gay and I'm not sayg gay men n't be hypermascule fightg addicts but jt feels sooo out of place, " said one player. "A number of negative or nfed reactns also me om people who weren't aware that the announcement cid wh a new David Kg story—or weren't aware that Dead by Daylight ntaed backstori at all, like me about an hour ago—and therefore thought that the veloper nsulted wh GaymerX jt to wre a blog post which stat that a character is gay.
HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO TAKE ON BIG GAY
In a reasonable world, one uld discs the effects of polici the gay lobby favors whout fearg a totalarian smear mpaign. But who said the world is reasonable? * is bdg gay *
The veloper announced that the new David Kg story will tablish that he intifi as gay, not jt that he's rt of the negative reactn broadly om people and punds who reject not jt the ia of reprentatn, but the inti beg reprented themselv, and took the announcement as a cue for outraged the PRIDE2022 the -game store will now unlock our new updated charm, along wh the old one. "I'm a gay du, I've had four girliends, " the player said.
"[David Kg's] Tome lore is probably gog to be a g out story, somethg I n relate to and somethg I'm sure a lot of other gay men would feel reprented by. My pot is 's hard to ll this tokenism bee this happens real life to almost every gay person. We don't pop out of the womb and have everyone unrstand that we're gay.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * is bdg gay *
Gay people don't even jt e out once.
I have to let people fd out im gay on their own or tell them myself every time I swch jobs or meet new iends, and 's always unnervg when I'm anticipatg their reactn to nfirmg my orientatn.
For that reason I really hate this 'well he wasn't gay before so I don't like him now' argument bee that happens to real life. And regardg suggtns that a new character would have been better, Peans said that puttg the game's first gay character behd a DLC paywall uld have been nsired "promotg pri for a prof, " as some players also suggted.
HOW DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS BEME SO WONRFULLY GAY
Sarah Gay is gog to prison for 10 years after LaQuenta Holey and Andrew Griff were killed a wrong-way crash on the North Freeway 2021. * is bdg gay *
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.
“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, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
Dungeons and Dragons' player base has bee more diverse. Not only is a more welg place for women and people of lor, but now, D&D is also pretty gay. * is bdg gay *
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.
“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.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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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.