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Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
- EL COMPADRE FIR MANAGER WHO SLD GAY ACTOR FOR KISSG HIS DATE AT L.A. RTRANT
- AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
- ELLT & KIERAN ROCK DSQUARED2 FOR GAY TIM COVER SHOOT
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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In a new terview wh Brish Vogue, the tws spoke ndidly about their difficult childhoods growg up poor and gay Canada the ’60s and ’70s. People are chg to socialize aga and bis, there’ll be a lot of empty, lower-rent spac ready to be seized on by game (and gay) entreprenrs. And sure enough, promoter Frankie Sharp—known for stimulatgly scffy parti like Wtgay and the Williamsburg bar Lovegun—is not only gog to brg sexy back to nightlife, he and his partners are gog to brg the life back to .
SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
Actor and edian Drew Droege, who is gay, said a manager at the Echo Park rtrant El Compadre recently reprimand him and his date for kissg. * dsquared owners gay *
Whenever we get out of semi-lockdown, Sharp and pany are set to open a four-story gay club Tim Square/Hell’s Kchen lled The Q. ” I queried, gog out on a gay limb as always. 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.
EL COMPADRE FIR MANAGER WHO SLD GAY ACTOR FOR KISSG HIS DATE AT L.A. RTRANT
* dsquared owners gay *
“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.
AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
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.
The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
ELLT & KIERAN ROCK DSQUARED2 FOR GAY TIM COVER SHOOT
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.
Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.
He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.