Film of the week: Gay g-of-age Irish drama Datg Amber is straight up hilar |

Contents:

• FILM OF THE WEEK: GAY G-OF-AGE IRISH DRAMA DATG AMBER IS STRAIGHT UP HILAR
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY DATG – FD YOUR IAL IRISH PARTNER
• THE BT OF GAY DUBL
• GAY LIFE MORN IRELAND--LIMERICK AND GALWAY
• “GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD

FILM OF THE WEEK: GAY G-OF-AGE IRISH DRAMA DATG AMBER IS STRAIGHT UP HILAR

The stori the men this issue share wh rears some of the most breezy they have ever featured, cludg tal of boozy nights out on the gay scene, timate nights , and even tal that highlight some of the good moments to e om this panmic era.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

© 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News). It wasn’t always that way, but there has been a massive shift general attus sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1993.

BarsDubl’s olst and biggt gay bar is The Gee, which has been servg the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny for over thirty years.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Also worth checkg out is the Internatnal Gay Theatre Ftival, which ually tak place May and featur LGBTQ+-themed productns staged theatr and smaller venu across the cy. Out2Tennis, meanwhile, is Ireland’s gay tennis work, anisg events and tournaments around the cy.

AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY

Media ptnPractice your serve wh Out2Tennis, Ireland's gay tennis work. David Freyne's story about a teen stgglg wh his sexualy 90s Ireland is a touchg, salty and extremely funny film, wr Pl WhgtonEddie (Fnn O’Shea), who’s gay, starts datg Amber (Lola Petticrew) an attempt to f wh society 90s IrelandBelieve or not, same-sex relatnships were only crimalised here 1993.

Not everyone was happy about that shunt towards enlightenment, but Máire Geoghegan-Qun's reform was only half the battle: vilent prejudice remaed and would take s before Irish gay people fally began to feel accepted their own untry. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The report was rried out by the Northern Ireland Human Rights CommissnSome schools Northern Ireland are teachg pupils that homosexualy is wrong relatnships and sex tn (RSE). "Some schools even outle their beliefs that "homosexualy" is wrong, " their polic, the NIHRC said.

"For example, one [school] wr that 'the belief that homosexual acts are agast the nature and purpose of human relatnships will be prented to pupils', " the report third of schools who provid rmatn to the NIHRC said their school would teach pupils that "heterosexual relatnships was the 'ma' or 'ial' ntext for sexual timacy" report also said most schools "directly ntribute to the societal victim-blamg and slut-shamg of women and girls. Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship.

GAY DATG – FD YOUR IAL IRISH PARTNER

Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.

THE BT OF GAY DUBL

“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. About a year later, “Love, Simon” ma history as Hollywood’s first major stud film to feature a gay teen protagonist and spawned a wonrful spoff show, “Love, Victor. 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 LIFE MORN IRELAND--LIMERICK AND GALWAY

“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. 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 GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD

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.

We didn’t crimalise homosexualy until 1993 – more than a quarter-century after siar laws had been enacted Great Bra – and yet by 2015 we’d bee the first untry the world to vote by plebisce for same-sex marriage.

There was still a sense of the clanste to what should have felt perfectly a young gay man behd a bookshop unter, I watched the people who bought At Swim, Two Boys – and there were a lot of them – and ed as a tool for flirtatn. In love wh lerature but starved of books that spoke to their own experienc of beg gay Ireland. Thanks, Jamie O’Neill, I owe you urse, At Swim, Two Boys is a universal novel that enpass much more than simply the gay experience.