Gay Black men rarely saw themselv on screen. Michael K. Williams changed that.

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAYS LOVE RS, AND NOW THERE’S A PLACE TO MEET AND GATHER
• GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANGBY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 23, 2008SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A NUMBER OF VEHICLE NAMEPLAT THAT HAVE BEEN NTUO PRODUCTN FOR S, BUT FEW ARE AS INIC AS THE MOL WE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK'S GAYT OF THE RUN FEATURE: THE FORD MTANG. CREDED WH CREATG, AND GIVG NAME TO, THE "PONY R" CLASS OF AFFORDABLE, SPORTY, YOUTH-ORIENTED TWO-DOORS, THE MTANG WAS AND REMAS AN EXEMPLAR OF TRADNAL AMERIN MASCULY: LOUD, UNREFED, AND NOT PARTICULARLY AGILE. HOWEVER, DURG S NEARLY 45-YEAR TENURE, WAS EVABLE THAT SOME OFFSPRG OM THE HYPER-BUTCH EQUE LE WOULD E OUT A LTLE…LIGHTER THEIR GOODYEARS THAN THE RT OF THEIR SIBLGS. WHY ELSE WOULD WE HAVE CHOSEN THE STANG AS OUR OFFICIAL STICK SHIFT MAST? (SEE UP THERE, ALL RABOW HUED, AND HORNILY MOUNTG 'S CLONE?) ANYWAY, HERE ARE OUR CHOIC FOR THE FIVE GAYT MTANGS EVER MA, ONE OM EACH OF THE R'S FIVE BASIC GENERATNS. VOTE OUR POLL FOR THE ONE YOU THK IS THE GAYT OF THE RUN.GENERATN 1 (1964-1969): 1966 SHELBY GT-HTHE SHELBY GT-H WAS AVAILABLE AS A RENTAL OM HERTZ, AND WAS OFTEN ED BY PEOPLE TERTED DOG DRAG ON THE WEEKENDS. (OKAY, DRAG RACG, BUT STILL.)AT ONCE BULGG AND TIGHTLY WRAPPED, LIKE A 1950S PHYSIQUE MOL.WATERED DOWN A TOUGH, ASPIRATNAL BRAND WH A POOR ANCHISG CISN—KD OF LIKE MTANG COLOGNE. (NOTE THE PRENCE OF A SIAR VEHICLE THIS AD.)GENERATN 2 (1970-1973): 1973 MTANG GRANWOULD YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF THAT HOOD? INCH WERE ADD UP ONT FOR THIS RE-SIGN MAKG THE LONGT (AND THICKT) MTANG TO DATE. TLY A SIZE-QUEEN'S PARADISE.OVERVELOPED LTOIDS RISG UP ABOVE THE HOOD LE, FORESTG THE 'S CIPIENT HOMO-DRIVEN GYM CULTURE.MAYBE THE LEAST GAY OF OUR GAY MTANGS. (I ACTUALLY FD SORT OF GROTQUE AND MENACG.) BUT THE EPICENTER-OF-EVIL—SARAH PAL—HAD ONE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I THK WOULD BE HILAR IF THE R SHE DROVE THE 80S WERE VOTED GAYT OF THE N.GENERATN 3 (1974-1978): 1977 MTANG II GHIAWHEN THE MTANG WENT MANOREXIC ( RPONSE TO ABOVE-MENTNED BLOAT OF THE PREV GENERATN.)THE "STEREOTYPILLY" GAY PONY CAR: WIMPY, WEAK, UNRPOWERED, FEME.BASED ON THE PTO PLATFORM—FAMO FOR "GOG OFF" WHEN TAKEN OM THE REAR.MOST POPULARBARACK OBAMA IS ALSO SRED SHLS THAT DONALD TMP COULD W ANOTHER TERM: REPORTBY BS LEVLIZZO’S DETHRONG HAS BEEN SWIFTBY KENZIE BRYANTEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTGENERATN 4 (1979-2004): 1987 MTANG GTCOVERED LOUVERS, EXTENSNS, OPENGS, FLAR, AND SKIRTS LIKE SOME SORT OF ECSTASY-ED OUT, 80'S CLUB-KID.SHREDD, PEEK-A-BOO REAR-TAIL-LIGHT TREATMENT, SEEMGLY MOLED ON THE ASS OF GEE MICHAEL'S PANTS DURG THE SAME ERA.ITS WORKG NAME SI FORD WAS "FOX BODY" MTANG.GENERATN 5 (2005-PRENT): 2008 MTANG "BULT"INSPIRED BY THE R THE 1968 FILM BULT STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN, MY GAY STYLE IN. (P.S. MCQUEEN!)SPORT EXHST PUTER-TUNED TO MATCH THE SOUND OF THE R THE ORIGAL FILM. ONLY A GAY R WOULD RE THAT MUCH ABOUT SUCH A SUBTLE ASPECT OF S REAR END: 'S THE ANAL BLEACHG OF THE TOMOTIVE WORLD.BULITT? IT'S LIKE A LAME JOKE OF A BAD GAY PORNO TLE.VOTE YOUR CHOICE FOR GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANG(POLLS)BRETT BERK IS A DETRO NATIVE, A LIFE-LONG R NUT, A GAY, AND THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE'S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT BRETT BERK
• GAY AUGTA
• GAY BLACK MEN RARELY SAW THEMSELV ON SCREEN. MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS CHANGED THAT.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Can someone expla what this whole "Mtang owners are gay" mentaly that I keep seeg on foms is about?

GAYS LOVE RS, AND NOW THERE’S A PLACE TO MEET AND GATHER

I certaly didn’t choose bee so far away om any sort of gay nightlife. We met more and more “r gays, ” and they were all dog neat thgs wh motors and wheels.

GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANGBY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 23, 2008SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A NUMBER OF VEHICLE NAMEPLAT THAT HAVE BEEN NTUO PRODUCTN FOR S, BUT FEW ARE AS INIC AS THE MOL WE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK'S GAYT OF THE RUN FEATURE: THE FORD MTANG. CREDED WH CREATG, AND GIVG NAME TO, THE "PONY R" CLASS OF AFFORDABLE, SPORTY, YOUTH-ORIENTED TWO-DOORS, THE MTANG WAS AND REMAS AN EXEMPLAR OF TRADNAL AMERIN MASCULY: LOUD, UNREFED, AND NOT PARTICULARLY AGILE. HOWEVER, DURG S NEARLY 45-YEAR TENURE, WAS EVABLE THAT SOME OFFSPRG OM THE HYPER-BUTCH EQUE LE WOULD E OUT A LTLE…LIGHTER THEIR GOODYEARS THAN THE RT OF THEIR SIBLGS. WHY ELSE WOULD WE HAVE CHOSEN THE STANG AS OUR OFFICIAL STICK SHIFT MAST? (SEE UP THERE, ALL RABOW HUED, AND HORNILY MOUNTG 'S CLONE?) ANYWAY, HERE ARE OUR CHOIC FOR THE FIVE GAYT MTANGS EVER MA, ONE OM EACH OF THE R'S FIVE BASIC GENERATNS. VOTE OUR POLL FOR THE ONE YOU THK IS THE GAYT OF THE RUN.GENERATN 1 (1964-1969): 1966 SHELBY GT-HTHE SHELBY GT-H WAS AVAILABLE AS A RENTAL OM HERTZ, AND WAS OFTEN ED BY PEOPLE TERTED DOG DRAG ON THE WEEKENDS. (OKAY, DRAG RACG, BUT STILL.)AT ONCE BULGG AND TIGHTLY WRAPPED, LIKE A 1950S PHYSIQUE MOL.WATERED DOWN A TOUGH, ASPIRATNAL BRAND WH A POOR ANCHISG CISN—KD OF LIKE MTANG COLOGNE. (NOTE THE PRENCE OF A SIAR VEHICLE THIS AD.)GENERATN 2 (1970-1973): 1973 MTANG GRANWOULD YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF THAT HOOD? INCH WERE ADD UP ONT FOR THIS RE-SIGN MAKG THE LONGT (AND THICKT) MTANG TO DATE. TLY A SIZE-QUEEN'S PARADISE.OVERVELOPED LTOIDS RISG UP ABOVE THE HOOD LE, FORESTG THE 'S CIPIENT HOMO-DRIVEN GYM CULTURE.MAYBE THE LEAST GAY OF OUR GAY MTANGS. (I ACTUALLY FD SORT OF GROTQUE AND MENACG.) BUT THE EPICENTER-OF-EVIL—SARAH PAL—HAD ONE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I THK WOULD BE HILAR IF THE R SHE DROVE THE 80S WERE VOTED GAYT OF THE N.GENERATN 3 (1974-1978): 1977 MTANG II GHIAWHEN THE MTANG WENT MANOREXIC ( RPONSE TO ABOVE-MENTNED BLOAT OF THE PREV GENERATN.)THE "STEREOTYPILLY" GAY PONY CAR: WIMPY, WEAK, UNRPOWERED, FEME.BASED ON THE PTO PLATFORM—FAMO FOR "GOG OFF" WHEN TAKEN OM THE REAR.MOST POPULARBARACK OBAMA IS ALSO SRED SHLS THAT DONALD TMP COULD W ANOTHER TERM: REPORTBY BS LEVLIZZO’S DETHRONG HAS BEEN SWIFTBY KENZIE BRYANTEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTGENERATN 4 (1979-2004): 1987 MTANG GTCOVERED LOUVERS, EXTENSNS, OPENGS, FLAR, AND SKIRTS LIKE SOME SORT OF ECSTASY-ED OUT, 80'S CLUB-KID.SHREDD, PEEK-A-BOO REAR-TAIL-LIGHT TREATMENT, SEEMGLY MOLED ON THE ASS OF GEE MICHAEL'S PANTS DURG THE SAME ERA.ITS WORKG NAME SI FORD WAS "FOX BODY" MTANG.GENERATN 5 (2005-PRENT): 2008 MTANG "BULT"INSPIRED BY THE R THE 1968 FILM BULT STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN, MY GAY STYLE IN. (P.S. MCQUEEN!)SPORT EXHST PUTER-TUNED TO MATCH THE SOUND OF THE R THE ORIGAL FILM. ONLY A GAY R WOULD RE THAT MUCH ABOUT SUCH A SUBTLE ASPECT OF S REAR END: 'S THE ANAL BLEACHG OF THE TOMOTIVE WORLD.BULITT? IT'S LIKE A LAME JOKE OF A BAD GAY PORNO TLE.VOTE YOUR CHOICE FOR GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANG(POLLS)BRETT BERK IS A DETRO NATIVE, A LIFE-LONG R NUT, A GAY, AND THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE'S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT BRETT BERK

Googlg thgs like “gay r muny” rulted prsgly stark rults. ”Though Hawthorn me out as gay before the release of “Dancg the Livg Room, ” that song was the first mil reflectn of his thentic self.

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.

GAY AUGTA

“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.”.

GAY BLACK MEN RARELY SAW THEMSELV ON SCREEN. MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS CHANGED THAT.

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. Mtang is a gay character om Cold Purisu.