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• THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY
• THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
• CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER
• BEER IS SO GAY
• GAY BAR OWNER FENDS ‘STRAIGHTS ONLY’ JOB ADVERT
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY

The Saloon, one of Mneapolis’s most popular gay bars, announced on June 19 that has cut ti wh brewg giant Anhser-Bch, cg the pany’s rponse to the anti-trans backlash agast s marketg mpaign featurg actrs Dylan Mulvaney, as WCCO first reported. The Saloon isn’t the first bar to drop Anhser-Bch beers — a number of Chigo gay bars cut ti May.

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.

THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”

“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. “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.

CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER

“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.

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.

BEER IS SO GAY

A new ad om CarGus is beg lled "the gayt mercial of 2021"Photo: Screenshot. An ad for the CarGus webse is beg lled “the gayt mercial of 2021” onle and ’s not hard to see why.

Snickers is apologizg for what was they say was supposed to be a humoro ad where a Snickers bar turned a flamboyant gay man to a beard, butch man. Related: A sketch show ma a hilar parody of a homophobic TV ad.

The ad me out last month but started gettg cricized on Spanish Twter for homophobia this past week.

GAY BAR OWNER FENDS ‘STRAIGHTS ONLY’ JOB ADVERT

Es vergonzoso y lamentable que a tas alturas haya empras que sigan perpetuando tereotipos y promoviendo la #homofobia y la #plumofobia. Even Spa’s Mister for Equaly, Irene Montero, said that the ad ed “homophobia as a bs strategy.

Me pregunto a quién le pue parecer una buena ia ar la homofobia o trategia ercial. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

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Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street. The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach. One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. Several Chigo-area gay bars have stopped sellg Anhser-Bch products rponse to the beer giant’s attempts to distance self om a marketg mpaign that Bud Light unrtook wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. 2Bears Tavern Group, which owns four gay bars on the cy’s north si — Meetg Hoe Tavern, 2Bears Tavern Uptown, The SoFo Tap, and Jackhammer — posted to Instagram last week that would disntue sal of all Anhser-Bch products, cludg popular beers Bch Light, Bud Light, and Goose Island 312, as first reported by Block Club Chigo.

MOSW GAY BARS

Meanwhile, Sitrack, a 41-year-old gay bar the cy’s Lakeview neighborhood, also clared that would stop sellg Bch Light, Bud Light, and Goose Island 312.

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

Ask what mak a gay bar gay and the answers will vary. What you’ll rarely hear, though, is that a gay bar is a gay bar bee of the drks.

Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg. Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer. Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017.

The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals. Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

But of urse, had to be gay. Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny.

They began llg Gay Beer while velopg the product and jt stuck. Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn. Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters.

(Big Gay Ice Cream has ed the same tactic.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

“A lot of bars are not wantg to say they’re lbian bars, they’re wantg to say they’re queer bars — but a lot of gay male bars keep sayg they’re gay male bars, ” she says. From a sign standpot, Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg all wanted to reference the cultur they grew om.

For Moore and Pazmo, that meant an “Amerina whout the Amerin flag” sign, somethg that reflected the athetics of Juli’ Bar, and the gay men of the ’60s who participated the “sip ” protts. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are n by queer people and support queer people year-round. Buyg Gay Beer at the grocery store signals to everyone who se you that you’re the kd of person who buys Gay Beer.

Gay Beer may be explicly queer, but “gay” still feel more fortable on the tongue to a non-queer person than “dyke” or “queer.