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Contents:
- NETFLIX HS BACK AT VIRAL MEME ON TWTER CRICIZG E OF GAY CHARACTERS SHOWS
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
NETFLIX HS BACK AT VIRAL MEME ON TWTER CRICIZG E OF GAY CHARACTERS SHOWS
Netflix tweeted a rponse to a viral meme on Twter that ed Spongebob Squarepants character Patrick Star to cricize the streamg pany’s e of gay characters shows and seri. * gay person twitter *
After g out as gay, Colton Unrwood is sharg his journey a new Netflix documentary. Gay.
Osborne announced he is gay. Osborne told Time magaze Febary that he is gay and has known for years, but he kept a secret bee of untry mic's mostly nservative fan base. It's tougher for Black gay men.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay. * gay person twitter *
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Ronen Rubste's gay character on "9-1-1: Lone Star" helped him get fortable wh his own sexualy.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light's disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. * gay person twitter *
"I me out as gay before I transned. I me out as transgenr and then I me out as gay aga," she said a YouTube vio April. Former "Bachelor" star Colton Unrwood me out as gay on "Good Morng Ameri.".
"And I'm gay. I am proud to be gay."In December, a documentary about his journey, "Comg Out Colton," was released on Netflix.
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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay person twitter *
Billboard charts 2014 wh their h sgle “Stay wh Me” and has been a hoehold name ever sce, g out as gay to the public quickly after the album release of “The Lonely Hour” an terview wh Far. In 2018, Henry was named the first-ever female lear of the Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that works wh the Republin Party to advote equal rights for lbian and gay Amerins. Pete Buttigieg, or “Mayor Pete” as he’s lled by his nstuents South Bend, Indiana, is the first openly gay man to n for the office of print of the Uned Stat.
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OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
Shams Charania: The Oklahoma Cy Thunr have waived Rudy Gay, sourc tell @TheAthletic Twter @ShamsCharania What's the buzz on Twter? Keh Pompey @PompeyOnSixers #YeaVsNayFlow Should the Sixers nsir signg Rudy Gay? pic.twter. * gay person twitter *
Netflix h back at a viral meme on Twter that criciz s e of gay characters seri.
“Sorry you have yet to realize that every gay person is very necsary, ” the streamg giant tweeted.
I thk the ma posts tweet is sayg that Netflix jt adds gay characters whout any story sometim.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay person twitter *
Like they’re whol story arc is “I’m gay, that’s ”— Jakob Goodw (@Jakob_Goodw) May 6, 2020 How is a gay character beg forced down your throat but a straight one isnt? In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
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.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY 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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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.
'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
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.