Turkey: Portugue Tourist Says He Was Jailed For Lookg Gay

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• MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’
• TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
• MAN ARRTED TURKEY AND LOCKED UP FOR 20 DAYS 'BEE HE LOOKED GAY AND WAS WEARG A CROP TOP'
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY IN TURKEY?

MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’

Miguel Alvaro was locked up for nearly three weeks after beg arrted by Turkish police bee he “looked gay”. A gay Portugue man claims he was arrted Istanbul, Turkey and jailed for 20 days, jt bee he “looked gay”. “They thought I would participate an unthorised LGBTI+ march that was gog to take place nearby bee I looked gay, ” he said.

It isn’t illegal to be gay Turkey, but the untry has bee an creasgly hostile place for queer people wh senr policians, relig lears and retailers lnchg attacks on the LGBTQ+ muny. A 34-year-old Portugue man was arrted by the police while vatng Turkey bee he "looked gay", Portugue media reported. "They thought I was gog to jo an unthorised LGBTQI+ march nearby bee I looked gay.

READ MORE: Turkish polil lear: Greeks, Romans and Amerins are "gay gods the East Mederranean. A Portugue man was arrted Turkey and kept disgtg ndns prison bee he "looked gay", he has claimed.

TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

Miguel Alvaro was on holiday alone Istanbul on June 25 when he went out to meet a iend for asked police for directns, unaware that there was a nearby LGBT para nearby, which was unsanctned by Alvaro, who is gay, said that one of the officers orred him to be arrted immediately.

"They thought I would participate an unthorised LGBTI+ march that was gog to take place nearby bee I looked gay. He was then moved onto a foul immigratn tentn centre, where he claimed that there were maggots crawlg on the sheets amid other several hours, his name was lled by prison guards, and he thought he was gog to be he and several other mat the same boat were driven 17 hours to another prison near the Syrian borr, on the far eastern si of the Alvaro said he was threatened by other mat bee he was gay, but some fellow prisoners stepped up to fend them.

MAN ARRTED TURKEY AND LOCKED UP FOR 20 DAYS 'BEE HE LOOKED GAY AND WAS WEARG A CROP TOP'

Speakg on Instagram, he said he would not remend anyone visg Turkey, but pecially not gay people. "It is not illegal to be gay Turkey, but LGBT people often face discrimatn neverthels.

Portugue man arrted Turkey for 19 days jt bee he "looked gay". Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. 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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY IN TURKEY?

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.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized. From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.