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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• SHIFTG THE FOOD NARRATIVESUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"AMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY: THE ANNOTATED VERSN","SCRIPTN":"MY QUEER FOOD CLASSIC OM 2013, WH NOT AND RRECTNS.","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2023-06-07T22:21:08+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2023-06-07T22:21:08+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"JOHN BIRDSALL","URL":","SCRIPTN":"WRER ON FOOD.","INTIFIER":"ER:715081","IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"SHIFTG THE FOOD NARRATIVE","URL":","SCRIPTN":"FOOD STORI OF PLEX INTY, NOT FORTG CLICH\U00E9S.","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":1000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:784359","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}}SHARE THIS POSTAMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY: THE ANNOTATED COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERAMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY: THE ANNOTATED VERSN
• HOW GAY IS YOUR FOOD?
• IN YOUR OPN, WHAT IS THE GAYT FOOD?
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• THE 'GAY DIET'

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

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. “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 ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG 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 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.

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“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.

HOW GAY IS YOUR FOOD?

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay. Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

IN YOUR OPN, WHAT IS THE GAYT FOOD?

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

I wrote this say 2013, after edor Chris Yg said y to my hasty, half-ass pch for Lucky Peach magaze’s Genr issue: an say on the fluence of gay food wrers the U. My piece, “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” was momento on a uple of levels, personal and cultural.

And my dad always hated bulli— tmped his ambivalence about the gay thg. Three gay guys—Beard, Richard Olney, and Craig Claiborne—would bee archects of morn food Ameri. It’s food that tak pleasure serly, as an end self, an assertn of polics or a human birthright, the product of culture—this is the legacy of gay food wrers who shaped morn Amerin lonels of Craig Claiborne, 1979.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

I first stggled wh that task the late ’80s, when I was wrg about food for the Sentel, a now-funct gay weekly San Francis. My edor, the late Eric Hellman, would always ask, “Is there a gay sensibily?

”As I was fallg love wh Lou’s Roquefort burgers, a gay activist New Mexi named Harry Hay was lnchg a movement lled the Radil Faeri— they’d go off for days-long Faerie Circl the wilrns, like all-male mi Burng Mans, only wh psilocyb-fueled circle jerks. Hay was a founr of the early gay rights group the Mattache Society.

By 1970, he’d e to the ncln that gay men were spirually different om straight on—homosexuals had always been shamans and prophets, jeered, beaten ad, or barely tolerated, livg on the margs.

THE 'GAY DIET'

(Hay, who died 2002, was anti-assiatnist, meang he would have been horrified to see the current stggle for gay people to achieve hetero marriage. ) Gay guys were artists, form-givers, shapers of the broar culture that hated them.

I don’t totally buy Hay’s theory of queer exceptnalism, but my edor’s qutn—is there a gay sensibily?

Even San Francis, gayt cy Ameri, homophobic dicks got all the prime le posns the plac I worked.