To be a Gay Man

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• TO BE A GAY MAN BY WILL YOUNG – OUT AND PROUD
• DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME
• TO BE A GAY MAN
• WILL YOUNG OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SHAMG AND ADMS HE 'SAYS WRONG THG ALL THE TIME'
• POP STAR WILL YOUNG REVEALS CHILDHOOD ‘GAY SHAME’, EIGHTI HOMOPHOBIA

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

" Durg his early teenage years, he was stgglg wh ternalized homophobia. "I mean, I saw as a way out of my homosexualy, if that mak any sense. ’ You know, I don't have to be a gay guy.

And all this horrible stuff that I thought about my homosexualy, and was like a light bulb. 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.

TO BE A GAY MAN BY WILL YOUNG – OUT AND PROUD

“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.

DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME

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. “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.

TO BE A GAY MAN

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. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

On a Saturday night Febary 2002, 14 ln people watched a 23-year-old gay man w a TV pop ntt. It had already n a piece suggtg he’d soon be “whoopg up… at one of Elton John and his lover David Furnish’s timate ltle all-star soire”, addg a “lourful mour” about Young’s school iends beg volved the “homosexual timidatn of younger boys”. It was a landmark revelatn at the time, g only six months after the openly gay Brian Dowlg had won Big Brother; pop culture was val changg attus to homosexualy the early 2000s.

WILL YOUNG OPENS UP ABOUT GAY SHAMG AND ADMS HE 'SAYS WRONG THG ALL THE TIME'

“His beg gay was not always the ma topic of nversatn.

This allowed me to see that a gay man uld be accepted as a person; not some kd of monster. ”To Be a Gay Man is a book about gay shame, Young explas, his chatty troductn, and his journey to try and rid himself of . ”Young wr wh the likable fizz he’s kept revealg throughout his succsful pop reer (his latt album, 2019’s Lexin, got to No 2 the charts), and on the podst he -hosted, Homo Sapiens.

He rells fdg gay porn onle at home the 1990s (“I’d have to put a towel over the router bee would make a noise like a fax mache… I nnot expla to you how excciatg those 30 sends were”).

POP STAR WILL YOUNG REVEALS CHILDHOOD ‘GAY SHAME’, EIGHTI HOMOPHOBIA

It’s shockg how Chris Moyl got away wh a homophobic imprsn of Young on primetime Rad 1 2009. In one msage, Howard explas that he’s not gay, he’s “j alil nasty sometim. Harper and Howard, who has never intified as gay or bisexual, met on social media and arranged to have sex.

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