When I found out I had a gay dad, pletely up-end my life.
Contents:
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
- HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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Growg up, I was a tomboy — or what Larry David would later ll “pre-gay.
MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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And while my father was anx when I first me out as gay at 19, I have only ever felt supported by him. 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.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE DAY I FOUND OUT MY FATHER WAS GAY
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.
HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
“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.”.