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Contents:
- "WHY ARE YOU GAY?" "WHO SAYS I'M GAY?" "YOU ARE GAY", 2022
- HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY AIKAANS
- ‘I CAN SEE YOU ARE GAY; I WILL KILL YOU’
"WHY ARE YOU GAY?" "WHO SAYS I'M GAY?" "YOU ARE GAY", 2022
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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.
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.
HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY AIKAANS
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.
‘I CAN SEE YOU ARE GAY; I WILL KILL YOU’
“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. To help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartac has published a new report for lbian, gay, trans, and queer travellers about how gay-iendly a untry is. In the 2021 edn, the rankg pared 202 untri and terrori based on the suatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer people the lotns.
LGBTQ+ and gay travellers n e this rmatn as a guile to prepare for their gaytn and take the x rankg as an ditor for choosg the holiday statn regardg the lol LGBTQ+ rights. The rankg of the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2020/2021 is based on diverse sourc such as Human Rights Watch, the UN mpaign Free & Equal, and llected rmatn about human rights vlatns of members of the LGBTQ+ muny throughout the past year.