Gay Water, a new nned cktail, wants to be the anti-Bud Light | CNN Bs

Contents:

• GAY PRI COLLECTN
• GAY BOYS UNRWEAR & PANTI
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

GAY PRI COLLECTN

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GAY BOYS UNRWEAR & PANTI

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

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GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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 MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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. “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.

“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. Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn. " (read more here)The bt advice is for gay travelers to act and drs nservatively at all tim.

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Basil Cathedral - Red SquareGay SceneUnrstandably, Rsia's gay scene is low profile and rather discreet. Gay public displays of affectn is not very mon, but this smopolan Rsian pal cy may be gayer than you might thk. Although Mosw don't have a dited 'Gay District', the cy's gay nightlife has bee more visible recent years.

Many bars and rtrants host gay nights. 'Gay-popular' bars and dance clubs n be found all around the Kreml - Central Statn MSK beg the most notable one.

Tverskoy is great for sightseeg, the theatr and gay latt hotel als Mosw are listed on the Gay Mosw Hotels to See & DoRed Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) - the heart of Mosw and the cy’s most famo tourist Kreml (Moskovsky Kreml) - a huge se wh The Diamond llectn the Armoury and several amazg church. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.