Megan and Whney Ban-Evans w IVF ‘gay tax’ battle

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• TIM HARDAWAY’S ANTI-GAY MENTS SHOULDN’T KEEP HIM OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME
• TANK SAYS MEN CAN GIVE ORAL SEX TO ANOTHER MAN AND NOT BE GAY
• OSRS OPENG MONOLOGUE TAK AIM AT FLORIDA "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL
• BENHAM BROTHERS LOSE HGTV SHOW AFTER ‘ANTI-GAY’ REMARKS

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Homophobia is still well and alive amongst our society. All across Twter, Facebook, and even text msag to fay members, people have taken upon themselv to profs their homophobic views. Below is a list om Bored Panda of people who had some pretty hilar and perfect rpons to homophobic ments (I thk 's safe to say that Gee Takei has the bt ebacks ever).

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. 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.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

“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. 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.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

“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.

TIM HARDAWAY’S ANTI-GAY MENTS SHOULDN’T KEEP HIM OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME

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.

A lbian uple who lnched a legal battle over equali IVF treatment between heterosexual and same-sex upl have dropped their fight after their lol re board pledged to make treatment sts media fluencers Megan and Whney Ban-Evans lnched a landmark “gay tax” discrimatn se after NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) said same-sex upl, sgle women and upl unable to have vagal terurse would have to pay for 12 rounds of IVF before qualifyg for NHS assistance.

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

TANK SAYS MEN CAN GIVE ORAL SEX TO ANOTHER MAN AND NOT BE GAY

The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. WASHINGTON, July 1 (Rters) - Gay Republins cricized as "homophobic" a vio posted by Republin printial ndidate Ron DeSantis' mpaign highlightg rival Donald Tmp's past statements support of gay rights, and the former print cled at a rally on Saturday to rpond to the attack.

"This is unniably homophobic, " Richard Grenell - who was the first openly gay Whe Hoe Cabet official as actg director of natnal telligence durg Tmp's 2017-2021 admistratn - said on Twter late on ernor, DeSantis has backed state laws aimed at rtrictg medil treatment for transgenr children and barrg mors om attendg drag shows mpaign did not rpond on Saturday to a requt for a rally Pickens, South Carola, Tmp did not acknowledge the broadsi om the mpaign for DeSantis, who trails far behd the former print public opn polls and is workg to build support wh hard-right posns on abortn, transgenr rights and other issu.

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"I will keep men out of women's sports, " he pledged at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn to protect gay rights.

BENHAM BROTHERS LOSE HGTV SHOW AFTER ‘ANTI-GAY’ REMARKS

Miller did not Log Cab Republins, a nservative group that advot for gay rights, said Republins need to stand up agast "radil Left gays" but that DeSantis had gone too far. "DeSantis and his team n't tell the difference between monsense gays and the radil Left gays, " the group said a tweet late on Friday, sayg the printial hopeful "has jt ventured to homophobic terrory.