New 'gay water' looks to avoid Bud Light disaster - Washgton Tim

Contents:

• WHEN LEE ATWATER AND A NEWT GGRICH AI TRIED TO GAY-BA TOM FOLEY
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

WHEN LEE ATWATER AND A NEWT GGRICH AI TRIED TO GAY-BA TOM FOLEY

A few days before he beme speaker, a sndal epted over a Republin Natnal Commtee memo entled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet" and parg the Spokane Congrsman to openly gay Massachetts Rep. More to the pot, one would have to believe that the memo's thors were unaware (a) that the primary meang of the phrase "out of the closet" is to note the public disclosure of prevly ncealed homosexualy; (b) that Frank is a gay person who beme natnally famo when he me out of the closet two years ago; or (c) that for weeks prr to the release of the memo Foley had been the target of a mpaign of scurrilo but unpublished mors suggtg that he too is gay, and perforce closeted. )Unr the circumstanc, for the RNC to put out a memo tled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet" and then to ny any overton of gay-bashg is like puttg out a memo tled "Pat Schroer: That Liberal Time of the Month" and nyg any overton of sexism, or puttg out a memo tled "Bill Gray: Liberal the Woodpile" and nyg any overton of racism.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

There is precisely the same amount of evince that Gee Bh, Lee Atwater, and Mikhail Gorbachev are gay as that Tom Foley is—i.

At a nference of polil operativ and reporters at Harvard last weekend, I found surprisg unanimy that the cisive factor squelchg the anti-Foley smear mpaign had been Frank's threat to name five gay Republins on Capol Hill.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

Frank, like many others, is unhappy about the unrlyg premise of the closet memo flap: That llg someone gay ipso facto a smear.

" In any se, Frank has done wonrs for the "image" of gay people by facg down the bigots.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

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A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.

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TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children. “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. A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June.

Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy. "However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter.