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Contents:
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
- LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS
- 118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- FLORIDA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR SPEAKS OUT ON 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
- FOR ALABAMA’S ONLY GAY LAWMAKER, A POLIL DEFEAT WAS DEEPLY PERSONAL
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history. * gay senator *
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TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
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LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS
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Dan Crane had had an affair wh a female page, Studds had to publicly acknowledge his gay sexualy. He would go on to be an outspoken Hoe member supportg same-sex marriage and other gay rights long before public opn swung a directn helpful to LGBT Social Conservative to Out, Poz ActivistRepublin Congrsman Jon Hson started his reer as a young pol reprentg a socially nservative area of Mississippi.
Instead, he beme an outspoken gay rights activist. Jim McGreevey stunned the polil world 2004 when he announced he was gay and had been cheatg on his wife wh a man. Gay bar.
118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
At the Tribe Film Ftival 2009, sent rippl across the polil world for intifyg several allegedly closeted policians as gay.
In the wake of the Larry Craig sndal (see earlier this list), Dick suggted that policians who were a posn to vote agast gay rights spe beg gay themselv served special scty and srn. Many of the policians the film have nsistently nied mors they are gay, but the film ensur that discsn Number? Fallg From the Bully PulpTed Haggard wasn't jt your n-of-the-l relig lear exposed as a hypocre when a gay sex sndal brought him down 2006.
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PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
'Shocked': Gay senator nonted Rub as he lled bill 'stupid waste of time' elevator. Tammy Baldw, the Wisns Democrat who is also the first known gay polician elected to the US Senate. 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. “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.
FLORIDA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR SPEAKS OUT ON 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
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.
FOR ALABAMA’S ONLY GAY LAWMAKER, A POLIL DEFEAT WAS DEEPLY PERSONAL
“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.