New 'gay water' looks to avoid Bud Light disaster - Washgton Tim

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

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JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

Ronen Rubste's gay character on "9-1-1: Lone Star" helped him get fortable wh his own sexualy. "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.".

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

"And I'm gay. I am proud to be gay."In December, a documentary about his journey, "Comg Out Colton," was released on Netflix.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Our list of the top 14 LGBT+ activists, artists and ins to follow on social media will help keep your head clear by keepg your feeds filled only wh the smartt, most rmed (and opnated) people the game — om pop sensatn Sam Smh, who recently announced that they now go by they/them pronouns, to the creator of a quirky, queer datg platform, and the first openly gay man to n for Print of the Uned Stat.

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THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

“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.

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. 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.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

“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.

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. 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.

'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE

“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. Com Out As Gay.