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- 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
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. * gay newspaper vancouver *
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One of Op's team members is openly gay ncierge Caleb Donszelmann, who juggl everythg om check-s to providg guts wh e of plimentary bicycl and drivg guts to their downtown statns.
“We’re lled Hollywood North bee that dtry is boomg here, ” he shar, “but we’re also known as Canada’s San Francis bee there are so many gay people!
GAY VANUVER NEWS
Your source for gay / LGBTQ news, reviews, and terviews the Davie Village and Vanuver. * gay newspaper vancouver *
“Op has always supported gay pri events, ” he says.
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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
The official gui to the most remend LGBT / gay-iendly bs the Davie Village and Vanuver. * gay newspaper vancouver *
That’s what I tell Room CaféThis longtime, gay-owned favore is known for s sassy, abive service, where you n playfully banter wh the wa staff. And whether you are bi or gay or lbian, no matter where you land on the genr spectm, Vanuver, the Cy of Glass, is one of the saft and most LGBTQ-iendly plac to vis. 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).
GAY-FRIENDLY BS VANUVER
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.
“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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
“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.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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-flavoured 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.