Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

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• HI, GAY! - CANNED VODKA SODA BRAND CREATED BY AND FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AIMS TO DTIGMATIZE THE WORD 'GAY', LNCH WH FOUR INIC FLAVORS
• GAY PLACE CROSSWORD CLUE
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAYS?
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?
• THE 10 BEST RTRANTS NEAR AMSTERDAM GAY PRI
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• GAY CENTER SPOT
• SYNONYMS FOR GAY PLAC
• GAY
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

HI, GAY! - CANNED VODKA SODA BRAND CREATED BY AND FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AIMS TO DTIGMATIZE THE WORD 'GAY', LNCH WH FOUR INIC FLAVORS

An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.

Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

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The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height. “Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store?

The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAYS?

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. G: Gay.

Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”? While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?

Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

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Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.”.

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The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history. However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.

In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny. We have already touched on the terms gay and lbian.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

homoromantic: a person who is romantilly attracted to people of the same sex or genr. upl dancg a gay, fast-paced jig.

WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

a gay, thoughtls girl who didn't re whether her work was done or not. had a gay old time at the party.

wh a gay toss of his at over his shoulr, the dapper old gentleman set off for the party. the skylark's gay song lifted me out of my gloom. was the era of the flappers, and young women were gay, bold, and fiant of nventn.

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How do the adjective gay ntrast wh s synonyms? Some mon synonyms of gay are animated, lively, sprightly, and vivac. While all the words mean "keenly alive and spired," gay strs plete eedom om re and overflowg spirs.

The gay spir of Paris the 1920s. When is sensible to e animated stead of gay? The words animated and gay n be ed siar ntexts, but animated appli to what is spired and active.

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When might lively be a better f than gay? In some suatns, the words lively and gay are roughly equivalent. When would sprightly be a good substute for gay?

While the synonyms sprightly and gay are close meang, sprightly suggts lightns and spired vigor of manner or w. When is vivac a more appropriate choice than gay? The synonyms vivac and gay are sometim terchangeable, but vivac suggts an activens of gture and w, often playful or allurg.

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More om Merriam-Webster on gay. , /PRNewswire/ -- For many years, the term 'gay water' has been known wh the queer muny as a lloquialism for a vodka soda. As of today, the brand Gay Water officially lnch to brg that phrase to the mastream as one of the first alholic beverag found and ground the LGBTQ+ Water is more than a beverage pany, is a brand that will reprent the LGBTQ+ muny 365 days a year.

At s earlit fn, "gay" means "happy, " yet over the years perceptn of the word shifted to negative as people began g as a pejorative label for people and actns. "There has been a distct lack of LGBTQ+ reprentatn the alhol dtry, but Gay Water aims to change this, " says Spencer Hodson, Founr and CEO of Gay Water. "Wh three simple gredients, only 80 lori and 4% ABV, gluten-ee and no sugar, Gay Water also aims to appeal to folks tryg to make healthier liftyle choic, but still want to enjoy alhol.

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Gay Water will lnch wh four rehg flavors: watermelon, lime, peach, and grapeu wh plans to expand to more product l the g months.

Gay Water sgle flavor packs will nta six 12oz ns for $18. Gay Water is available onle and at retailers across the US.