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THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS
LOL GAY MAN LOOKS BACK AT ONTAR’S FIRST PRI MONTH EVENT
ELR: ‘WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH — MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR LET’S TAKE IT EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS

THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS

While several stat have sought to lim LGBTQ+ ntent the tn system and ban children om attendg drag shows, gay rights advot argue that such claims and measur stigmatize young LGBTQ+ dividuals, impactg their mental health. "It is not an acceptable standard for anyone else, why should be acceptable for him to do simply bee he is homosexual?

But as a member of the gay muny, I thk we ought to have a reckong over why kk is nflated wh LGBT pri at all. After all, heterosexual and homosexual people alike have var kks and fetish. What’s more, beg gay, or even havg genr dysphoria, is not somethg anyone choos.

In fact, that was a key part of the argument for gay acceptance. So to nflate beg gay wh preferenc and extracurricular sexual activi people choose to engage is to do our own inti and legimacy a tremendo disservice. The succsful effort to sell the public on gay marriage, the sgle biggt acplishment of the gay-rights movement, was fundamentally rooted bourgeois norms, fay valu and, ankly, normalcy.

LOL GAY MAN LOOKS BACK AT ONTAR’S FIRST PRI MONTH EVENT

So, too, this unfortunate trend plays to old homophobic prejudic and unfair stereotyp some people still subscribe to.

There’s a long and dark history of bigots suggtg gay people are out to get kids or more likely to sexually abe mors, spe many studi and expert nsens showg such a rrelatn do not exist. But when a select few gay people do openly engage simulated sex acts ont of children — somethg all normal, everyday gay people would nounce — and go viral, plays to the unfair stereotyp and sets back the progrs we’ve ma, even though ’s not reprentative. “A group of naked men participated the Seattle Gay Pri para – exposg themselv to small children along the para route, ” said nservative rad host Todd Starn a post.

Instead, FIFA will allow players to choose om one of eight armbands whose them don’t mentn lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or nonbary rights:.

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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.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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.

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.”.