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- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- OPN A NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW GAY MEN SEE THEMSELV AND THEIR MUNI
- TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
- THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
* how do gay people feel *
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. 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 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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * how do gay people feel *
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.
) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. It seemed like a turng pot for gay rights when, earlier this month, 74 percent of rponnts a natnal poll said that legal rights should tmp private relig beliefs, and 63 percent said that Kim Davis, a Kentucky unty clerk who went to jail for refg to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl, should have to fulfill the obligatns of her job. But for all the changg sentiments reflected s fdgs, the poll self was part of a long tradn of askg the populatn at large how they feel about gay people and the rights and protectns available to an illumatg and strikgly different survey, Logo — the Via Media work aimed at gay dienc — polled 1, 061 gay men between ag 18 and 49, askg them how they saw themselv and their muni and followg up wh smaller groups a number of ci.
OPN A NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW GAY MEN SEE THEMSELV AND THEIR MUNI
And provis a fascatg look at how a risg generatn of gay men feels about gay history, the role of the Inter and some of the biggt ternal challeng facg gay muni. Gay publitns such as Harry Hay’s One Magaze surveyed their rears at early as 1961, askg them how often they had sex, whether they had arrt rerds and if they might enjoy rrpondg wh other gay men. … There’s a disproportnate attentn to some gree on gay men, slightly ls so on lbians, and almost no attentn paid to bisexuals, and that’s to a certa extent bee marketers don’t know how to thk about marketg to the bisexual muny.
TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
”The only parable recent survey is the Pew Rearch Center’s 2013 survey of LGBT Amerins, which clud 1, 197 lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults and asked them about their g-out experienc and maniftatns of discrimatn. While this first Logo study don’t pture the range of experienc of other members of the LGBT muny, like lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people, the rearchers behd were able to lve more broadly to the way gay men see themselv and their muni — wh some surprisg Hillhoe, vice print of sights novatn at MTV and one of the rearchers who nducted the survey, pared the changg attus reflected the rults to a journey up Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Sixty-one percent of gay men between ag 20 and 29 told rearchers that beg gay was eher extremely or very important to their inty (those numbers cled somewhat wh age). ” Three-quarters also said that their sexual orientatn had a posive effect on their liv, and 67 percent said that their liv were more tertg bee they were gay. “We went to the study wh the prevailg notn that this is really a great time to be gay Ameri, and that the gay muny has achieved unprecented levels of acceptance and visibily and opportuny, more so than ever before, ” says Matt Cohen, a senr manager for brand and marketg sights at MTV who worked wh Hillhoe on the project.
THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
“But at the same time we started to hear exprsns of nostalgia om the younger end of the muny, that they felt that the gay muny of today didn’t feel as uned or close-kn as they imaged once was. ”While younger gay men have no sire to return to eras fed by persecutn, police vlence and difference om public officials, and while they benef om much greater accs to one another through the Inter and through smartphon, the survey rults did suggt a real longg for gay stutns. Sixty-four percent of the rponnts their 20s and 30s told rearchers that “As gay people bee more tegrated to the mastream, we have fewer plac we n ll our own, ” and 85 percent of the overall rponnts agreed wh the statement “It’s sad to see gay neighborhoods and bars disappear, ” and also wh the ia that even as more Amerins bee open and acceptg to gay people, ’s important to mata gay-only some of the specific forms of nostalgia may be specific to gay men, Cohen utns that younger rponnts share some of the same attus wh heterosexual members of their age hort.