Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton L – a gog out memoir | Autobgraphy and memoir | The Guardian

Contents:

• ATHERTON STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTT 'DON'T SAY GAY/TRANS' BILLS
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
• GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR
• GAY CLUB ATHERTON
• IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE
• GAY ATHENS
• 1 MATCH FOR GAY ATHERTON
• GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L: 2021 AUTOBGRAPHY FALIST

ATHERTON STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTT 'DON'T SAY GAY/TRANS' BILLS

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.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

“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.

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.

'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

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.

GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR

Stunts at Atherton High School walked out of class Tuday afternoon prott of Kentucky's wave of "Don't Say Gay/Trans" 200 stunts, many donng trans and Pri flags and signs cryg anti-LGBTQ legislatn the Kentucky General Assembly, gathered on the school lawn.

GAY CLUB ATHERTON

Elltt Kozarovich, a sophomore at Atherton who helped anize the prott, said he wanted to anize a gatherg support of other stunts. It's a wonrful time out here, " at Atherton High School was part of a prott agast the new “Kentucky Don’t Say Gay/Trans” bill by walkg out of school. "Stunts at Atherton High School held a prott agast the new “Kentucky Don’t Say Gay/Trans” bill by walkg out of school.

Several stunts said that they fear passg bills like Hoe Bill 120 would take away their opportuny for genr-affirmg re or to medilly transn, treatments that rearch suggts n be Walker, a sophomore, said he experienc symptoms of prsn, some of which stem om his feelgs of genr dysphoria, and a treatment like hormone replacement therapy uld help.

IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE

"Stunts at Atherton High School was part of a prott agast the new “Kentucky Don’t Say Gay/Trans” bill by walkg out of school.

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GAY ATHENS

Gay Bar b memoir, history and cricism; 's a difficult book to p down, but that's what mak so readable and so endlsly fascatg.

Atherton L's book starts off a crowd room a gay bar where he's gone cisg wh his partner, whom he refers to throughout the book wh the Leonard Cohen-spired nickname Famo Blue Raat. That kd of gay bar — all kds of gay bars, really — are danger of closg, Atherton L wr, due to the populary of datg apps and risg property sts. He's ambivalent about the velopment, wrg, "I had to nsir whether gay bars promised a sense of belongg then lured to a trap.

He wr betifully about his llege days Los Angel, where he went to his first one, though he n't rell the name, wryly notg, "Of urse I n't remember my first gay bar — I was dnk.

1 MATCH FOR GAY ATHERTON

" He's also spired to dig to the past: "Enough time has passed that gay bars, once a surge, have bee monumental their own way.

" That history clus the famo 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn New York, but Atherton L also div to other, lser-known bars, cludg on that endured police raids meant to put gay people their place. Throughout the book, Atherton L scrib the gay bars that he equented, and his scriptns of the tablishments are endlsly evotive. " Atherton L explor topics like archecture and urban geography, as they relate to gay bars, betifully; he wr wh a real knowledge that's more than jt tellectual dilettantism.

GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L: 2021 AUTOBGRAPHY FALIST

About the changg looks of bars before the turn of the century, he observ, "A new type of gay bar began to appear London's Soho the neti — airy, glossy, ntental. " Along the way, Atherton L dips to other topics related to the gay muny: the appropriatn of gay culture by straight people, mic, drkg, and the valu of the younger generatn of LGBTQ people. And while succeeds on many levels, perhaps the most remarkable one is Atherton L's nstant qutng of himself, and the realizatns of how he's changed sce he walked to his first gay bar years ago: "Maybe, I thought, I'm a dis ball.

On Irish televisn news, the headl rmed the natn that Panti Bliss, a brilliantly articulate mpaigner, had arrived at Dubl Castle, as ed she gay was all the rage jt then. Leo Varadkar, mister for health, soon to be taoiseach, had announced that he was gay, as did a former mister om the other ma party, as did a well-known TV news journalist.

That day would not have been surprisg had all the bishops of Ireland arrived their fery to let know that they, too, wanted to jo our Gay Bar, a brilliantly wrten and cisive acunt of gay life Los Angel, San Francis and London, Jeremy Atherton L quot the cric Ben Walters on gay history that is “agile om fear and fettg, too often wrten whispers and saved scraps”. I imaged a walk that two men of my generatn – I me to Dubl 1972 – might do to revis the gay plac that have gone, such as The Gym, a sna jt a stone’s throw om Dubl Castle, or Ingno, another sna, much favoured by prits.