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Contents:

• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• EIGHT QUEER PODSTS TO LISTEN TO DURG PRI MONTH AND BEYONDFROM THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI TO STORI OF TRANS PEOPLE THE WILD WT, THE SHOWS N EXPAND LISTENERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF QUEER HISTORY THE UNED STAT.BY JTE GOOJUNE 24, 2020ILLTRATN BY ALICIA TATONE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRI LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. WH BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS PROLIFERATG ACROSS THE NATN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE UAL CELEBRATORY ATMOSPHERE OF PRI MONTH—WHICH RECENT YEARS, HAS FEATURED CREASGLY RPORATE EVENTS—HAS SHIFTED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE CURRENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AGAST SYSTEMIC RACISM.BUT PRI AND AND BLACK LIV MATTER ARE FAR OM MUTUALLY EXCLIVE; FACT, GAY LIBERATN AND BLACK LIBERATN ARE HISTORILLY TERWED, WH BLACK TRANS ACTIVISTS RTG AT THE CENTER OF BOTH MOVEMENTS. AND AS MANY AMERINS ARE SEEKG TO EPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK HISTORY, SO TOO SHOULD THEY SEEK TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AMERI AND BEYOND, WHICH HAS BEEN SIARLY ELID OM OUR TEXTBOOKS.THE PODSTS ARTFULLY LK THE PAST TO THE PRENT, REVEAL HIDN HISTORI, OFFER A SENSE OF REPRENTATN AND MUNY, AND HONOR THE ORIGS OF PRI SELF—WHICH WAS, AFTER ALL, A RT.NANCYHOSTED BY KATHY TU AND TOB LOW, NANCY HAS BEEN HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SCE S LNCH 2017, NOT LEAST BEE S HOSTS’ INTI AND PERSONAL JOURNEYS HAVE BEEN WOVEN TO THE SHOW’S DNA OM THE JUMP. IN NANCY’S FIRST EPISO, TU AND LOW BOTH TERVIEWED THEIR MOTHERS—WHO GREW UP TAIWAN AND CHA, RPECTIVELY—ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC G OUT, TO VERY DIFFERENT RULTS. SCE THAT SEMAL EPISO, NANCY HAS PROVID A PLATFORM WHERE VAR LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENC N BE UNPACKED, SHARED, AND CELEBRATED. FEATURG A MIX OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS, QUEER HISTORY, POP-CULTURE ANALYIS, AND ANK NVERSATNS ABOUT THE STGGL QUEER PEOPLE AMERI NTUE TO FACE, ’S AN IMPRSIVELY WELL-ROUND SHOW, AND ONE OF WNYC’S CROWN JEWELS.LISTEN: “BLACK TRANS LIV MATTER,” A NVERSATN WH AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST IMARA JON ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUDG BLACK TRANS PEOPLE THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI.SUPPORT NANCYGENR REVEALRELEASED EVERY MONDAY, GENR REVEAL AMPLIFI THE STORI OF TRANS AND NONBARY FOLKS. STILL NOT QUE SURE WHAT “NONBARY” MEANS? THAT’S OKAY—GENR REVEAL ALSO PRIS SELF BEG A EE ROURCE FOR THOSE SEEKG TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT GENR. ITS PILOT EPISO, “GENR 101,” EXPLAS TERMOLOGY LIKE “CISGENR,” “TERF,” “GENRQUEER,” AND MORE (LISTENERS N THEN GRADUATE TO “GENR 102,” “GENR 103,” “GENR 201,” “GENR 202,” “GENR 301,” “GENR 401,” “GENR 402,” “GENR 501,” AND “GENR 502”). HOST TUCK WOODSTOCK, WHOSE FECT LGH PUNCTUAT EACH TERVIEW, HAS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 GUTS OVER THE URSE OF FIVE SEASONS, MAKG THIS THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET ACQUATED WH QUEER AND NONBARY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSFORMG THEIR MUNI AND THE WORLD.LISTEN: “DOMIQUE, RIAH, LAYLEEN, AND ALYSSA PARIAH,” A NVERSATN WH ACTIVIST ALYSSA PARIAH ABOUT BLM, BLACK TRANS LIBERATN, AND HOW BAIL FUNDS N SAVE BLACK TRANS LIV.SUPPORT GENR REVEALMAKG GAY HISTORYOVER THE URSE OF SEVEN SEASONS, MAKG GAY HISTORY HAS REVEALED THE HIDN HISTORY OF THE LGBTQIA+ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE VOIC OF S MOST PROMENT LEARS. FEATURG ARCHIVAL TERVIEWS WH GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUDG SYLVIA RIVERA, MARSHA P. JOHNSON, BARBARA GTGS AND KAY LAHEN, AND BAYARD RT, MAKG GAY HISTORY’S UNPARALLELED ACCS TO PRIMARY SOURC MAKE THIS SHOW A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL LISTEN. HOST ERIC MARC NDUCTED THE TERVIEWS HIMSELF OVER S, AND THE RULT IS A WI-RANGG ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT FEELS BOTH TIMATE AND IMMEDIATE.LISTEN: “STONEWALL 50: EPISO 2: EVERYTHG CLICKED… AND THE RT WAS ON,” A FIRST-PERSON ACUNT OF THE 1969 STONEWALL UPRISG AS TOLD BY MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND OTHER QUEER ACTIVISTS WHO WERE AT THE RT.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLESUPPORT MAKG GAY HISTORYAOQUEER PODSTHOSTED BY SELLY THIAM, A JOURNALIST, ORAL HISTORIAN, AND PRODUCER, AOQUEER CELEBRAT THE LOVE STORI OF QUEER AINS, FEATURG THE EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE OM BOTH THE AIN NTENT AND THE DIASPORA. THE BETIFULLY PRODUCED EPISOS EXPLORE TOPICS CLUDG AIN G-OUT STORI, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A QUEER SOMALI WOMAN MNEAPOLIS, THE STORY OF A UGANDAN MAN WHO PLANNED TO HOST FIRST GAY PRI EVENT AT A REFUGEE MP, AND THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF G GRDR AI, WHERE SOME UNTRI STILL CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THROUGH A MIX OF LIVE STORYTELLG, TERVIEWS, AND VTIGATIVE REPORTG, THE PERSONAL NARRATIV THAT THIAM UNVERS ARE PROFOUNDLY MOVG, AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXPAND LISTENERS’ UNRSTANDG OF THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF QUEER BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.LISTEN: “HOW ARE YOU DOG?,” WHICH EXAM HOW THE PANMIC HAS BEEN AFFECTG QUEER AIN MUNI ALL OVER THE WORLD, OM UGANDA TO SWEN TO WT AI TO BOSTON.SUPPORT AOQUEER (NONE ON RERD)QUEER AMERIQUEER AMERI SEEKS TO TE LISTENERS ON THE LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THAT WAS NOT TGHT CLASSROOMS, WH EPISOS THAT ARE SPECIFILLY SIGNED FOR STUNTS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TEGRATE QUEER HISTORY TO THEIR STANDARD CURRICULUM. THIS MEANS THAT EPISOS ALTERNATE BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL HISTORIL ANALYSIS (CLUDG DISCSNS OF THE LAVENR SRE, “ROMANTIC IENDSHIPS” BETWEEN LBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW WW II IMPACTED GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, AND THE AIDS EPIMIC), AND PRACTIL GUIS TO RPORATG QUEER HISTORY TO CLASSROOMS. A SPECIAL SERI OM TEACHG TOLERANCE, A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, EACH EPISO PAGE OF QUEER HISTORY CLUS A THOROUGH ROURCE AND READG LIST TO HELP LISTENERS FURTHER TE THEMSELV. HOSTED BY LEILA RUPP AND JOHN D’E, QUEER AMERI IS AS PELLG AS IS PREHENSIVE.LISTEN: “THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANS PEOPLE,” A NVERSATN WH HISTORIAN AND WRER GENNY BEEMYN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANS AND GENR NONNFORMG FIGUR, OM THE WILD WT TO THE MORN DAY.SUPPORT QUEER HISTORY (SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER)QUEERWOC: THE PODSTQUEERWOC IS AN ONLE MUNY CREATED SPECIFILLY FOR “PEOPLE WH FEME ENERGI, MARGALIZED GENRS, SEXUALTI, AND RAC” TO MEET AND SOCIALIZE. ITS ACPANYG PODST (“AN SURGENT PODST FOR QUEER WOMEN OF LOR”) IS HOSTED BY FOUNRS NIKEETA, AN ANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND MONEY, A MENTAL HEALTH UNSELOR AND DOCTORAL NDIDATE, WHOSE NATURAL BANTER F EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS WH A SENSE OF LEVY AND MARARIE. TOGETHER, NIKEETA AND MONEY HOLD SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AROUND FATPHOBIA THE LBIAN MUNY, WHY PEOPLE GET TRIGGERED, COVID-19 AND THE REVOLUTN, AND HOW AUDRE LOR’S WRG N HELP FACILATE HEALG. THEY ALSO FEATURE SEGMENTS CLUDG “MENTAL MOMENT,” WHICH ENURAG TROSPECTN AND OFFERS TOOLS FOR SELF-PRERVATN, AND “LEFTIST LBIAN LUMARY LABOR LECTURE,” WHICH T LISTENERS ON THE LGO OF THE SOCIAL-JTICE MOVEMENT.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLELISTEN: “YA GAY AUNTI ‘DIGG’ FOR GEMS’ FT. QUEERWOC,” A WI-RANGG NVERSATN WH HANIFAH WALIDAH AND RED SUMMER OF THE PODST YA GAY AUNTI ABOUT RECENT PROTTS, THE “BLACK YEEHAW AGENDA,” BLACK ROLLER-SKATG CULTURE, AND MORE. AND AS NIKEETA NOT AT THE TOP OF THIS EPISO, QUEERWOC DON’T NEED A FEATURE PUBLITNS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIM OR, SAY, VANY FAIR, TO VALIDATE THE WORK THEY’RE DOG—BUT THEY WELE ALL NEWFOUND LISTENERS WILLG TO EMBRACE THEIR MSAGE.SUPPORT QUEERWOC: THE PODSTOUTWARDA MONTHLY “SALON” HOSTED BY RUMAAN ALAM, J. BRYAN LOWR, AND CHRISTA CTECCI, OUTWARD DIV EP TO QUEER CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND LGBTQIA+ HISTORY. THROUGH TERVIEWS WH ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND THORS, THE HOSTS LVE TO THE PLEXI OF TOPICS CLUDG RADIL MOVEMENTS, CHOSEN FAY, TRAVELG AS A GAY PERSON, AND QUEER SEX. LISTENG TO OUTWARD EPISOS OFTEN FEELS LIKE STG AT A DNER PARTY WH A BUNCH OF FASCATG, OPNATED PEOPLE—LISTENERS WILL BE PELLED TO LEAN FORWARD AND SOAK UP EVERY WORD OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKG, ROUNDTABLE-STYLE NVERSATNS.LISTEN: “COVID-19, AIDS, AND COMMUNY,” WHICH THE HOSTS DRAW PARISONS BETWEEN THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND THE AIDS EPIMIC WH ALPHONSO DAVID, PRINT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AUTHOR UZODMA IWEALA ON WHE SIGNS AT BLACK PROTTS— “GEE FLOYD WAS KILLED MY NEIGHBORHOOD”— 15 YEARS AFTER KATRA, A SEND STORM—CORONAVIS—HS NEW ORLEANS— HOW MEGHAN MARKLE DECID TO FALLY SPEAK OUT ABOUT GEE FLOYD— NIKKA OLIVER ON SEATTLE’S EXTRAORDARY PROTTS AND WHAT COM NEXT— WHERE J.K. ROWLG’S TRANSPHOBIA COM FROM— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE ORIG OF “STRANGE F,” BILLIE HOLIDAY’S BALLAD AGAST RACISMLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JTE GOO

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

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. The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg . 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. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

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. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

“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.

EIGHT QUEER PODSTS TO LISTEN TO DURG PRI MONTH AND BEYONDFROM THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI TO STORI OF TRANS PEOPLE THE WILD WT, THE SHOWS N EXPAND LISTENERS’ KNOWLEDGE OF QUEER HISTORY THE UNED STAT.BY JTE GOOJUNE 24, 2020ILLTRATN BY ALICIA TATONE.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRI LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. WH BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS PROLIFERATG ACROSS THE NATN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE UAL CELEBRATORY ATMOSPHERE OF PRI MONTH—WHICH RECENT YEARS, HAS FEATURED CREASGLY RPORATE EVENTS—HAS SHIFTED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE CURRENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AGAST SYSTEMIC RACISM.BUT PRI AND AND BLACK LIV MATTER ARE FAR OM MUTUALLY EXCLIVE; FACT, GAY LIBERATN AND BLACK LIBERATN ARE HISTORILLY TERWED, WH BLACK TRANS ACTIVISTS RTG AT THE CENTER OF BOTH MOVEMENTS. AND AS MANY AMERINS ARE SEEKG TO EPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK HISTORY, SO TOO SHOULD THEY SEEK TO UNRSTAND THE HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AMERI AND BEYOND, WHICH HAS BEEN SIARLY ELID OM OUR TEXTBOOKS.THE PODSTS ARTFULLY LK THE PAST TO THE PRENT, REVEAL HIDN HISTORI, OFFER A SENSE OF REPRENTATN AND MUNY, AND HONOR THE ORIGS OF PRI SELF—WHICH WAS, AFTER ALL, A RT.NANCYHOSTED BY KATHY TU AND TOB LOW, NANCY HAS BEEN HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SCE S LNCH 2017, NOT LEAST BEE S HOSTS’ INTI AND PERSONAL JOURNEYS HAVE BEEN WOVEN TO THE SHOW’S DNA OM THE JUMP. IN NANCY’S FIRST EPISO, TU AND LOW BOTH TERVIEWED THEIR MOTHERS—WHO GREW UP TAIWAN AND CHA, RPECTIVELY—ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC G OUT, TO VERY DIFFERENT RULTS. SCE THAT SEMAL EPISO, NANCY HAS PROVID A PLATFORM WHERE VAR LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENC N BE UNPACKED, SHARED, AND CELEBRATED. FEATURG A MIX OF CELEBRY TERVIEWS, QUEER HISTORY, POP-CULTURE ANALYIS, AND ANK NVERSATNS ABOUT THE STGGL QUEER PEOPLE AMERI NTUE TO FACE, ’S AN IMPRSIVELY WELL-ROUND SHOW, AND ONE OF WNYC’S CROWN JEWELS.LISTEN: “BLACK TRANS LIV MATTER,” A NVERSATN WH AWARD-WNG JOURNALIST IMARA JON ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUDG BLACK TRANS PEOPLE THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE RADIL ROOTS OF PRI.SUPPORT NANCYGENR REVEALRELEASED EVERY MONDAY, GENR REVEAL AMPLIFI THE STORI OF TRANS AND NONBARY FOLKS. STILL NOT QUE SURE WHAT “NONBARY” MEANS? THAT’S OKAY—GENR REVEAL ALSO PRIS SELF BEG A EE ROURCE FOR THOSE SEEKG TO TE THEMSELV ABOUT GENR. ITS PILOT EPISO, “GENR 101,” EXPLAS TERMOLOGY LIKE “CISGENR,” “TERF,” “GENRQUEER,” AND MORE (LISTENERS N THEN GRADUATE TO “GENR 102,” “GENR 103,” “GENR 201,” “GENR 202,” “GENR 301,” “GENR 401,” “GENR 402,” “GENR 501,” AND “GENR 502”). HOST TUCK WOODSTOCK, WHOSE FECT LGH PUNCTUAT EACH TERVIEW, HAS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 GUTS OVER THE URSE OF FIVE SEASONS, MAKG THIS THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET ACQUATED WH QUEER AND NONBARY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSFORMG THEIR MUNI AND THE WORLD.LISTEN: “DOMIQUE, RIAH, LAYLEEN, AND ALYSSA PARIAH,” A NVERSATN WH ACTIVIST ALYSSA PARIAH ABOUT BLM, BLACK TRANS LIBERATN, AND HOW BAIL FUNDS N SAVE BLACK TRANS LIV.SUPPORT GENR REVEALMAKG GAY HISTORYOVER THE URSE OF SEVEN SEASONS, MAKG GAY HISTORY HAS REVEALED THE HIDN HISTORY OF THE LGBTQIA+ CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE VOIC OF S MOST PROMENT LEARS. FEATURG ARCHIVAL TERVIEWS WH GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CLUDG SYLVIA RIVERA, MARSHA P. JOHNSON, BARBARA GTGS AND KAY LAHEN, AND BAYARD RT, MAKG GAY HISTORY’S UNPARALLELED ACCS TO PRIMARY SOURC MAKE THIS SHOW A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL LISTEN. HOST ERIC MARC NDUCTED THE TERVIEWS HIMSELF OVER S, AND THE RULT IS A WI-RANGG ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT FEELS BOTH TIMATE AND IMMEDIATE.LISTEN: “STONEWALL 50: EPISO 2: EVERYTHG CLICKED… AND THE RT WAS ON,” A FIRST-PERSON ACUNT OF THE 1969 STONEWALL UPRISG AS TOLD BY MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND OTHER QUEER ACTIVISTS WHO WERE AT THE RT.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLESUPPORT MAKG GAY HISTORYAOQUEER PODSTHOSTED BY SELLY THIAM, A JOURNALIST, ORAL HISTORIAN, AND PRODUCER, AOQUEER CELEBRAT THE LOVE STORI OF QUEER AINS, FEATURG THE EXPERIENC OF PEOPLE OM BOTH THE AIN NTENT AND THE DIASPORA. THE BETIFULLY PRODUCED EPISOS EXPLORE TOPICS CLUDG AIN G-OUT STORI, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A QUEER SOMALI WOMAN MNEAPOLIS, THE STORY OF A UGANDAN MAN WHO PLANNED TO HOST FIRST GAY PRI EVENT AT A REFUGEE MP, AND THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF G GRDR AI, WHERE SOME UNTRI STILL CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THROUGH A MIX OF LIVE STORYTELLG, TERVIEWS, AND VTIGATIVE REPORTG, THE PERSONAL NARRATIV THAT THIAM UNVERS ARE PROFOUNDLY MOVG, AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXPAND LISTENERS’ UNRSTANDG OF THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF QUEER BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE.LISTEN: “HOW ARE YOU DOG?,” WHICH EXAM HOW THE PANMIC HAS BEEN AFFECTG QUEER AIN MUNI ALL OVER THE WORLD, OM UGANDA TO SWEN TO WT AI TO BOSTON.SUPPORT AOQUEER (NONE ON RERD)QUEER AMERIQUEER AMERI SEEKS TO TE LISTENERS ON THE LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THAT WAS NOT TGHT CLASSROOMS, WH EPISOS THAT ARE SPECIFILLY SIGNED FOR STUNTS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TEGRATE QUEER HISTORY TO THEIR STANDARD CURRICULUM. THIS MEANS THAT EPISOS ALTERNATE BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL HISTORIL ANALYSIS (CLUDG DISCSNS OF THE LAVENR SRE, “ROMANTIC IENDSHIPS” BETWEEN LBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, HOW WW II IMPACTED GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, AND THE AIDS EPIMIC), AND PRACTIL GUIS TO RPORATG QUEER HISTORY TO CLASSROOMS. A SPECIAL SERI OM TEACHG TOLERANCE, A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, EACH EPISO PAGE OF QUEER HISTORY CLUS A THOROUGH ROURCE AND READG LIST TO HELP LISTENERS FURTHER TE THEMSELV. HOSTED BY LEILA RUPP AND JOHN D’E, QUEER AMERI IS AS PELLG AS IS PREHENSIVE.LISTEN: “THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANS PEOPLE,” A NVERSATN WH HISTORIAN AND WRER GENNY BEEMYN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TRANS AND GENR NONNFORMG FIGUR, OM THE WILD WT TO THE MORN DAY.SUPPORT QUEER HISTORY (SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER)QUEERWOC: THE PODSTQUEERWOC IS AN ONLE MUNY CREATED SPECIFILLY FOR “PEOPLE WH FEME ENERGI, MARGALIZED GENRS, SEXUALTI, AND RAC” TO MEET AND SOCIALIZE. ITS ACPANYG PODST (“AN SURGENT PODST FOR QUEER WOMEN OF LOR”) IS HOSTED BY FOUNRS NIKEETA, AN ANIZER AND ACTIVIST, AND MONEY, A MENTAL HEALTH UNSELOR AND DOCTORAL NDIDATE, WHOSE NATURAL BANTER F EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS WH A SENSE OF LEVY AND MARARIE. TOGETHER, NIKEETA AND MONEY HOLD SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AROUND FATPHOBIA THE LBIAN MUNY, WHY PEOPLE GET TRIGGERED, COVID-19 AND THE REVOLUTN, AND HOW AUDRE LOR’S WRG N HELP FACILATE HEALG. THEY ALSO FEATURE SEGMENTS CLUDG “MENTAL MOMENT,” WHICH ENURAG TROSPECTN AND OFFERS TOOLS FOR SELF-PRERVATN, AND “LEFTIST LBIAN LUMARY LABOR LECTURE,” WHICH T LISTENERS ON THE LGO OF THE SOCIAL-JTICE MOVEMENT.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLELISTEN: “YA GAY AUNTI ‘DIGG’ FOR GEMS’ FT. QUEERWOC,” A WI-RANGG NVERSATN WH HANIFAH WALIDAH AND RED SUMMER OF THE PODST YA GAY AUNTI ABOUT RECENT PROTTS, THE “BLACK YEEHAW AGENDA,” BLACK ROLLER-SKATG CULTURE, AND MORE. AND AS NIKEETA NOT AT THE TOP OF THIS EPISO, QUEERWOC DON’T NEED A FEATURE PUBLITNS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIM OR, SAY, VANY FAIR, TO VALIDATE THE WORK THEY’RE DOG—BUT THEY WELE ALL NEWFOUND LISTENERS WILLG TO EMBRACE THEIR MSAGE.SUPPORT QUEERWOC: THE PODSTOUTWARDA MONTHLY “SALON” HOSTED BY RUMAAN ALAM, J. BRYAN LOWR, AND CHRISTA CTECCI, OUTWARD DIV EP TO QUEER CULTURE, CURRENT EVENTS, AND LGBTQIA+ HISTORY. THROUGH TERVIEWS WH ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND THORS, THE HOSTS LVE TO THE PLEXI OF TOPICS CLUDG RADIL MOVEMENTS, CHOSEN FAY, TRAVELG AS A GAY PERSON, AND QUEER SEX. LISTENG TO OUTWARD EPISOS OFTEN FEELS LIKE STG AT A DNER PARTY WH A BUNCH OF FASCATG, OPNATED PEOPLE—LISTENERS WILL BE PELLED TO LEAN FORWARD AND SOAK UP EVERY WORD OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKG, ROUNDTABLE-STYLE NVERSATNS.LISTEN: “COVID-19, AIDS, AND COMMUNY,” WHICH THE HOSTS DRAW PARISONS BETWEEN THE COVID-19 PANMIC AND THE AIDS EPIMIC WH ALPHONSO DAVID, PRINT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AUTHOR UZODMA IWEALA ON WHE SIGNS AT BLACK PROTTS— “GEE FLOYD WAS KILLED MY NEIGHBORHOOD”— 15 YEARS AFTER KATRA, A SEND STORM—CORONAVIS—HS NEW ORLEANS— HOW MEGHAN MARKLE DECID TO FALLY SPEAK OUT ABOUT GEE FLOYD— NIKKA OLIVER ON SEATTLE’S EXTRAORDARY PROTTS AND WHAT COM NEXT— WHERE J.K. ROWLG’S TRANSPHOBIA COM FROM— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE ORIG OF “STRANGE F,” BILLIE HOLIDAY’S BALLAD AGAST RACISMLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JTE GOO

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.