Gay and lbian doctors fd a voice – The Irish Tim

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• GAY AND LBIAN DOCTORS FD A VOICE
• GAY AND LBIAN DOCTORS FD A VOICE
• ORGANISATN SET UP FOR GAY IRISH DOCTORS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• GAY DOCTORS IRELAND

GAY AND LBIAN DOCTORS FD A VOICE

A NEW anisatn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) doctors and medil stunts Ireland is to hold s first agm Dubl next Doctors Ireland (GDI) was set up December to provi an tnal, profsnal and social support work for LGBT doctors workg the Irish health servic. ”Gay Doctors Ireland’s first agm will take place at 7pm on Saturday, May 8th the Radisson Blu Hotel, Goln Lane, Dubl 8. For tails or to register, go to gaydoctorsireland.

Lbian, gay, bisexual and trans doctors Ireland now have their own social and support group. Gay Doctors Ireland () will hold s first annual general meetg Dubl next month after beg set up December.

Gay Doctors Ireland has around 40 members at prent, although many others are volved wh the group. 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.

GAY AND LBIAN DOCTORS FD A VOICE

“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.

ORGANISATN SET UP FOR GAY IRISH DOCTORS

“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.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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 DOCTORS IRELAND

“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. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.