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• CHE PARENTS FIGHT FOR GAY CHILDREN'S MARRIAGE RIGHTS
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

CHE PARENTS FIGHT FOR GAY CHILDREN'S MARRIAGE RIGHTS

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.

“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.

FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

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.

“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. The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni.

Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized.

“There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent. March 11, 2013 — -- Of all the ways a son n be disrpectful to his parents, argued the ancient Che philosopher Menci, the worst is to have no, a bold challenge to this centuri-old tradn, nearly 200 parents of gays and lbians Cha have wrten an open letter to Che lawmakers mandg that their children be allowed to legally marry and have letter was published by Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), a gay rights group based the southern Cha cy of Guangzhou. The group helps parents to munite wh their gay the open letter, the parents wrote: "Some of our children have been wh their same-sex partners for almost 10 years; they re for and love each other eply, but they are unable to legally thorize medil treatment for their partners when they are ill and need of an operatn.

As the parents of homosexuals, we are often worried, bee they nnot legally marry, and this impacts to var gre their abily to adopt; thorize necsary medil treatment; her their partner's assets, or even buy an apartment. "Homosexualy was still a crime until 1997 and classified as a mental illns until 2001. Chairman Mao Zedong led a mpaign to wipe out homosexualy, which he lled a psychologil disorr and a form of nightmare ntued for one of the parents, known as Mama Romance on the Inter, when the number of the admistratn office at the ary universy her son attend appeared on her cell phone school need to talk to the woman, who asked that only her surname, Wang, be ed this article, about persuadg her son to transfer and drop the ary school voluntarily bee his sexual orientatn is still not allowed Che ary Romance knew she uldn't lie to herself anymore and her son was, ed, gay.