Small-Town Gay Du Can't Stop Hookg Up Wh a Not-So-Myster Masked Man - The Stranger

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• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• 10 THGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN WHEN YOU STAY AT A GAY HOTEL
• THE SHORE INN- CLOTHG OPTNAL HOTEL FOR GAY MEN PHOTO GALLERY FOR THE SHORE INN- CLOTHG OPTNAL HOTEL FOR GAY MENEXTERRSUNCKEXTERRINTERR TAILOUTDOOR SPA TUB 6+ OVERVIEW OF THE SHORE INN- CLOTHG OPTNAL HOTEL FOR GAY MEN OVERVIEWROOMSLOTNAMENIPOLICI THE SHORE INN- CLOTHG OPTNAL HOTEL FOR GAY MEN
• SMALL-TOWN GAY DU CAN'T STOP HOOKG UP WH A NOT-SO-MYSTER MASKED MAN

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

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

10 THGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN WHEN YOU STAY AT A GAY HOTEL

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. 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.

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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. 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. Sleepg wh Tckers Don’t Make You Gay.

SMALL-TOWN GAY DU CAN'T STOP HOOKG UP WH A NOT-SO-MYSTER MASKED MAN

Ameri’s highways are long and lonely, and grabbg ten mut behd a Bob’s Big Boy on Highway 90 is not about beg gay; ’s about sayg, hey fellow traveler, I swiped right on you, bee you looked mighty fe that CAT baseball hat.