Canned Cocktail Gay Water Aims To Right Bud Light's Lack Of LGBTQ+ Support

Contents:

• MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
• CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
• GAY WATER CLAPS BACK AT BUD LIGHT'S INSCERE LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
• MAN CGHT DRKG BUD LIGHT INSISTS HE'S NOT GAY
• DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?
• MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

*Photo cred: Gay Water via Instagram.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Where Bud Light sks, Gay Water ris to the ocsn. On Thursday, the brightly-packaged nned alholic beverage Gay Water lnched s way to happy hours. Named after the nickname given to the vodka and soda bo that’s equently orred gay bars, Gay Water wants to be the drk of choice for the queer muny.

Spencer Hodson, a gay man, created the product wh the LGBTQ+ muny md. Hodson created Gay Water to be out, loud, and proud.

HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

And while Gay Water’s four sugar-ee flavors, watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu, n be purchased select retailers, Gay Water’s reach is expand through onle sal. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self.

Sometim great ias start om vatn nversatns, as did the creatn of Gay Water. Wh that, Hodson believ that ’s “exactly the right time” to enter Gay Water to the market.

Gay Water is here to turn the tis wh a premixed cktail that was tentnally signed for everyone. "His iend tells him, "I'm aaid to drk now might turn me gay.

CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT

" The other man rponds after takg a sip, "That's ridiculo, " but his voice has changed to a higher-pched effemate tone, suatg he beme gay after drkg the Bud Light. New York (CNN) — 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.

GAY WATER CLAPS BACK AT BUD LIGHT'S INSCERE LGBTQ+ SUPPORT

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. 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. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. “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.

MAN CGHT DRKG BUD LIGHT INSISTS HE'S NOT 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. “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.”.

DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?

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.

Baird, notably, reached out to his gay neighbors on Castro Street, key among them a radil labor activist named Howard Wallace and a lol mera-shop owner and aspirg polician, Harvey Milk. Milk told Baird that he had to get unn jobs for openly gay men and women.

MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

Baird agreed to both, and a historic gay–labor aln was born. ’ ” Owners and patrons plied, and Coors beme a rare sight at gay bars and clubs. By the 1990s, Joe and other fay members were also lked to Moral Majory and anti-gay, fay-valu ndidat and .

” It was, the leaflet said, “Trickle Down Homophobia.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

As Joe’s brother Bill put a 1977 meetg wh gay activists Los Angel, “We found out that the gay muny was havg a boytt of our product, and this was the first time that we knew there was a very well-fed gay muny. In 1979 Coors add sexual orientatn to s nondiscrimatn clse and began payg for ads gay publitns. Many gay activists refed to see the efforts as anythg more than disgenuo payoffs and have vigoroly protted Coors’ sponsorships over the years.

In 1979, when the pany sought to open a send brewery on the East Coast, Virgia’s Shenandoah Valley, lols worried that their home would bee “a haven for homosexuals” bee of Coors’ advertisg mpaigns. It ultimately took the pany two years to secure the land for s new brewery, all while litely balancg overtur to both nservativ and gay nsumers. ” It simply wasn’t worth to try to w them over, suggted the firm: “The gay muny’s negative feelgs n ep.

Amid 2023’s wave of anti-trans hate, right-wg beer drkers are llg for a boytt of Bud Light—a beer that gay people fely love—over s recent brand partnership wh transgenr actrs Dylan Mulvaney. For starters, the mob’s only plat seems to be that Mulvaney is a trans woman—a crime I m every day—but the current movement agast Bud Light don’t seem to know that, historilly speakg, boyttg beer is one of the gayt thgs you n do. On the heels of the Lavenr Sre, when gay and lbian ernment employe were forced om their jobs 1950, protectns for queer people the workplace were virtually nonexistent (the first statewi protectns for LGBT workers me 1982, shout out Wisns).