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ITEM : 2018-020.7983 - GAY PRI 1996
Every year, the cy of Amsterdam hosts the Gay Pri wh boat paradg through the nals to support the LGBTIQ+ muny. ○ To abolish crimalizatn of homosexualy.
The Netherlands will also play an active role for LGBTIQ+ persons polil dialogu, mata ti wh lol LGBTIQ+ anizatns, support Gay Pri events, and pay attentn to the annual Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia (IDAHOT, 17 May). 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.
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
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.