Everythg Is Transphobic (But "Gay Men Draw Vagas" Isn't) - The Stranger

Contents:

• ‘GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS’ IS HILAR AND TELLG (NSFW)
• EVERYTHG IS TRANSPHOBIC (BUT "GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS" ISN'T)
• WHAT GAY MEN THK ABOUT VAGAS
• THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS
• GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS
• GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS, ILLTRATE THE MYSTERI OF FEMALE SEXUALY

‘GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS’ IS HILAR AND TELLG (NSFW)

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

EVERYTHG IS TRANSPHOBIC (BUT "GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS" ISN'T)

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. “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.

WHAT GAY MEN THK ABOUT VAGAS

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.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS

“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. How To Draw Girl’s Hand | How To Draw Hot Hands | Female FigureHow To Draw Girl’s Hand | How To Draw Hot Hands | Female FigureGay men and vagas — historilly, the two are worlds apart.

So what happens when you ask a gay man to s down and draw one? This is the qutn that led Keh Wilson and Shannon O’Malley to curate an ongog public art project and upg picture book lled “Gay Men Draw Vagas. ” Wh the rults rangg om fe art to clever pictns, the rults are both humoro and tellg about the relatnship between gay men and the project is currently volved a Kickstarter mpaign, The Huffgton Post chatted wh the pair this week how the project got started, what’s surprised them the most and Huffgton Post: Where did the spiratn for the project e om?

GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS

Keh Wilson: Three years ago, we were at a rtrant wh a bunch of other homos and the topic of vagas me up. After a few unenlightened ments me out of the mouths of the gay men, Shannon asked me to draw a vaga on the table wh a crayon. In sual nversatn, at surface level, I knew askg gay guys to draw vagas was funny bee zeroed on what some people might have perceived as “oppos.

The latter isn’t fun workplace Huffgton Post: “Gay Men Drawg Vagas” a variety of reactns: lghter, disbelief — even annoyance. In our vio, we lgh when we ll the project “gay vaga anthropology, ” but that really is how we thk of . Ultimately, though, we hope people do a lot of thgs; we hope they’ll lgh, we hope they’ll thk about what means to intify as a “gay man, ” we hope they’ll thk about ias our culture has about bodi and body parts.

GAY MEN DRAW VAGAS, ILLTRATE THE MYSTERI OF FEMALE SEXUALY

Their rpons are part of the study, part of the are stereotyp that gay men fd vagas disgtg and/or know nothg about them (and don’t want to). Is this project an attempt to get gay men to nont those stereotyp (and any tth behd them) and, if so, how? We thk of GAY MEN DRAW VAGINAS as a quick lgh at the water oler as much as we thk of as a genr studi semar discsn isn’t the book lled “GAY MEN DRAW VULVAS, ” sce vulvas are what many people have drawn?

Wilson and O’Malley: We’re askg humans who intify as “gay men” to draw a “vaga.

A lot of people draw elephants and ts, but we’re not renamg the book “GAY MEN DRAW ANIMALS. ”Check out a selectn of imag om “Gay Men Draw Vagas” below or head here to vis the project’s Kickstarter You Go.