A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spac
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- BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
- CHE GAY VIO BAN SPARKS ONLE BACKLASH
- LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA
- GAY CHA
BEG GAY CHA HAS GOTTEN HARR UNR XI JPG
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A more assertive, self-reliant Cha has rulted a subtle but nstant narrowg of gay spacPhotographer: GREG BAKER/AFPHello, I’m Colum Murphy, a reporter on our Cha ernment team based Beijg, wh a look at the steady erosn of gay life Cha. First, here are your headl: This week’s top stori:Up NextBeg Gay Cha Has Gotten Harr Unr Xi Jpg. 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, however, is out and proud.
CHE GAY VIO BAN SPARKS ONLE BACKLASH
Cha’s LGBTQ muny has long had to al wh not only societal prejudice but also prsure om the state: censorship, surveillance and timidatn, at tim even tentn by police. Durg the early 2000s, though, looked like thgs might be changg. Gay clubs flourished big ci and muny groups sprang up to offer social servic. The days, the feelg has fad. While ’s difficult to pot to any direct crackdown, the realy is that over the past ’s bee to * gay en china *
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.”.
LIFE IS GETTG HARR FOR GAY PEOPLE CHA
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. Las distes gay florecieron en las grans ciudas y surgieron gpos unars para oecer servics social.
La homosexualidad se spenalizó en 1997, pero no existen proteccn legal explícas ntra la discrimación basada en la orientación sexual o la intidad género. Los activistas LGBT+ han tenido algunos éxos en los tribunal al argumentar que los rechos a la igualdad y la dignidad en la Constución se aplin a las personas LGBT+, o cuando un tribunal Beijg en 2020 dictamó que proteger a una mujer trans ntra la discrimación en el lugar trabajo “bería tar ntro l signifido” la ley, pero o no se ha traducido a polítis públis o una legislación más rerdar que la Asociación Psiquiátri Cha elimó la homosexualidad su lista enfermedas mental en 2001, lificándola “no necariamente anormal”.
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Aún así, un rme 2020 la ofica Derechos Humanos las Nacn Unidas enntró que los hospal públis en Cha oecen terapias nversión -prohibidas ya en buena parte l mundo- a las personas homosexual Los pacient que viven n el VIH/SIDA o aquellas que bn una cigía reasignación sexo han nunciado que enentan discrimación por parte los trabajador la salud. En 2016, los censor chos tablecieron que las películas y la televisión tienen que evar los temas o personaj homosexual.
Nueve activistas que tentaron anizar una nferencia sobre los rechos los homosexual en Xi’an en 2017 fueron tenidos; uno ellos le reveló a un reportero que un tegant la Policía le dijo que la ciudad no quería homosexual. El club gay Dtatn, que abrió s puertas en Beijg en 2004, supo ser uno los club nocturnos gay más grans Asia y también oecía servics o pebas VIH. 400 lon habant Cha, sigue siendo la norma que los hombr y mujer homosexual cedan ante la prión faiar para sarse n alguien l sexo oputo y tener hijos, manteniendo su verdara orientación sexual en cena la Marcha l Orgullo Shangai, que ngrega a un número pequeño activistas.
La popular app ntactos gay Blued todavía sigue onle, lo que perme que lon personas se necten. Muchos en Cha nsiran que ser gay, bisexual, trans o no bar un ncepto “importado”, bido a que muchas embajadas occintal en Beijg promueven los rechos las personas los últimos tiempos, son pos las anizacn LGBT+ en Cha que se atreven a asistir a eventos patrocados por gobiernos extranjeros sobre tos temas.