Canned cktail 'Gay Water' aims to sh on Bud Light's mistak

Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAYBCS: A QUEER ALPHABET HARDVER – SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• LGBTQIA+ — THIS GAY MAN DIDN’T ORR THIS BOWL OF ALPHABET SOUP
• BIG GAY ALPHABET COLORG BOOK (REACH AND TEACH) NOVELTY BOOK – COLORG BOOK, JUNE 1, 2015
• VIDEO: WOMAN HAS LTLE BOY READ 'THE GAYBCS' — A CHILDREN'S BOOK WH TERMS LIKE 'BI,' 'G OUT,' AND 'QUEER.' AND THE REACTN IS SWIFT.
• THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
• GAY ALPHABET ILLTRATNS & VECTORS

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

AdvertisementSKIP WisemanJune 21, 2018Updated on June 7, 2019When I me out as gay more than 10 years ago, there were only four letters monly ed to group var sexual and genr mori: L, G, B and letters were an evolutn toward cln — an expansn of the language ed to reprent a disparate group that had often jt been lled “the gay muny. We have updated this list to reflect more mon them among the follows is a by-no-means clive list of AND LESBIAN It’s important to start wh the basics, and “gay” and “lbian” are as basic as gets. As “homosexual” began to feel clil and pejorative, gay beme the rigur mastream term to refer to same-sex attractn the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Gradually, as what was then lled the gay liberatn movement gaed steam, the phrase “gay and lbian” beme more popular as a way to highlight the siar-yet-separate issu faced by women the fight for is still sometim ed as an umbrella term, but the days, also refers specifilly to men, as “gay men and lbians.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

It is not a way statn om straight to gay, as had once been stereotyp around bisexualy — that ’s a transnal stage or a ver for promiscuy — have been at the center of ght nversatn wh L. Some women who are attracted to women prefer the terms gay or queer refers to someone who rejects or do not intify wh the genr bary of man or woman. LOG IN WITH FACEBOOKHome›Polics and Activism›The LGBT Alphabet›I am proud to be a part of such a large and lorful muny: the LGBT muny or the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr muny.

I thk for the time beg I will be "labelg" myself queer bee that is an awome way to scribe how I feel, but to each is own and now you have a letter the "gay" acronym, so basilly we are all gay the ey of the acronym this ContentThis article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ias and opns of the creator. 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.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

“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. 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.

GAYBCS: A QUEER ALPHABET HARDVER – SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

“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. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.

But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.

Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6. “Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said. SourceB - Boystown: Famo gay neighborhoods both LA’s Wt Hollywood and Chigo’s Lakeview SourceC - Christopher Street Liberatn Day (1970): Consired the first gay pri para.

SourceH - Harvey Milk: The first openly gay man to be elected to a polil office CaliforniaI - Inclive Language: The e of words that are genr-nonspecific, cludg pronouns like “they or ze” and nouns like “partner. Hodg: The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se that guaranteed the right to marry to same-sex upl natnwiP - Pri: Pri is a celebratn of the self-affirmatn, digny, equaly and creased visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng people as a social groupQ - Qutng: A term ed to scribe people who are the procs of explorg their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

SourceS - Stonewall Rts: The 1969 rts origated at the NYC gay club and served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world. SourceT - Tim Cook: The CEO of Apple, the world’s first trilln-dollar pany, was the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 pany. V - Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn: How a Dpised Mory Phed Back, Beat Death, Found Love, and Changed Ameri for Everyone - The novel by Lda Hirshman trac the history of gay rights om the early 20th century to the prent.

LGBTQIA+ — THIS GAY MAN DIDN’T ORR THIS BOWL OF ALPHABET SOUP

The rult would be GAYBCs ―a playful, subversive alphabet book that aims to spread awarens and mystify queer termology for everyone. Usg straightforward, accsible language, GAYBCs also f ls monly known terms, such as “femme, ” “Mx., ” and “ze, ” and puts LGBTQ-iendly sps on words like “weddg” and “equaly.

His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. Countls gay men are trated wh beg associated wh blogil mal who clare themselv transgenr, “intify” as femal and then trounce blogil femal at swimmg petns, track meets and other athletic ntts.

This disgts many gay men who also worry that when transgenrism generat to “We’re g for your kids” terrory, pats bullsey on our backs.

BIG GAY ALPHABET COLORG BOOK (REACH AND TEACH) NOVELTY BOOK – COLORG BOOK, JUNE 1, 2015

We do not need the transgenr crowd to rerce among nervo parents the ugly stereotype that if you scratch a gay man, out pops a pedophile. But this fact blurs when normal gay men get shoehorned to the same “inty” wh the stars of Drag Queen Story Hour and the ant transgenr who crave immediate accs to 5- through 8-year-olds Florida classrooms. How long before some parent snaps, “They’re not gettg their nasty hands on my ltle Billy, ” storms to a gay bar wh a rifle and starts firg?

Gay and lbian people tend to be primarily or only attracted to members of the same sex, while bisexual people may be attracted to both female and male partners. Today, queer n refer to genr fluidy, or may simply be ed by people who prefer not g typil sexual inty labels like gay, lbian or bisexual. Grab your crayons and your backpack for a fantastil journey through The Big Gay Alphabet Colorg Book, sixty-four pag illtratg twenty-six words that highlight memorable victori and llective moments LGBTQP (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Pansexual) Big Gay Alphabet Colorg Book is Jacta Bunnell’s fourth book the Queerbook Commtee seri of lorg books (cludg Girls Are Not Chicks and Sometim the Spoon Runs Away wh Another Spoon) and the first wh acclaimed illtrator Leela Corman (Unterzakhn).

VIDEO: WOMAN HAS LTLE BOY READ 'THE GAYBCS' — A CHILDREN'S BOOK WH TERMS LIKE 'BI,' 'G OUT,' AND 'QUEER.' AND THE REACTN IS SWIFT.

As you add your own extraordary lors to the pag, we hope you are left askg, “Isn’t everythg fabulo this world jt a ltle b gay? Avoid intifyg gay people as “homosexuals” an outdated term nsired rogatory and offensive to many lbian and gay Exprsn - Refers to how an dividual exprs their socially nstcted genr.

LGBTQQIA - An acronym ed to refer to all sexual mori: “Lbian, Gay/Genr Ntral/Genr Queer, Bisexual/Bigenr, Transgenr/Transvte/Transsexual, Qutng/Queer, Intersex, and Alli/Androgyno/Asexual.

THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED

”Liftyle - (see Offensive Terms to Avoid) Inaccurate term ed by anti-gay extremists to nigrate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr liv. As there is no one straight liftyle, there is no one lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr Lovg Men (MLM) - Commonly ed by muni of lor to note the attractn of men to Who Have Sex wh Men - men, cludg those who do not intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, who engage sexual activy wh other men (ed public health ntexts to avoid excludg men who intify as heterosexual) Gay - Dcrib people who self-intify as lbian or gay their personal, public and/or profsnal liv. Qutng - The procs of nsirg or explorg one’s sexual orientatn and/or genr Orientatn - The scientifilly accurate term for an dividual’s endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or oppose sex, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual (straight) orientatns.

Bee of the clil history of the word “homosexual, ” is aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred – notns discreded by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn the 1970s.

GAY ALPHABET ILLTRATNS & VECTORS

Intifyg a same-sex uple as “a homosexual uple, ” characterizg their relatnship as “a homosexual relatnship, ” or intifyg their timacy as “homosexual sex” is extremely offensive and should be a le, try to avoid labelg an activy, emotn or relatnship “gay, ” “lbian” or “bisexual” unls you would ll the same activy, emotn or relatnship “straight” if engaged by someone of another orientatn. Offensive: “sexual preference”Preferred: “sexual orientatn” or “orientatn” The term “sexual preference” is typilly ed to suggt that beg lbian, gay or bisexual is a choice and therefore n and should be “cured.

” Sexual orientatn is the accurate scriptn of an dividual’s endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or oppose sex and is clive of lbians, gay men, bisexuals and straight men and women.

Offensive: “gay liftyle” or “homosexual liftyle”Preferred: “gay liv, ” “gay and lbian liv” There is no sgle lbian, gay or bisexual liftyle. The phrase “gay liftyle” is ed to nigrate lbians and gay men, suggtg that their orientatn is a choice and therefore n and should be “cured.