Canada’s Pacific Northwt jewel is a mec for foodi, cktail and ffee enthiasts, outdoor fns and bikg fans—and LGBTs. Caleb Donszelmann, openly gay ncierge for Op Hotel Vanuver, offers up some mts.
Contents:
- AN LGBT GUI TO VANUVER, CANADA'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY
- GAY VANUVER NEWS
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- GAY-FRIENDLY BS VANUVER
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
AN LGBT GUI TO VANUVER, CANADA'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY
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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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Stay At The Fairmont Wateront Hotel As our partners at Out reported, recyclg and savg the environment is extremely gay (so gay that straight men aren't dog to avoid lookg overly feme). 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 LGBTQ2S+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
“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.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
“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.
For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavours — 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.