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The Bloodiest Mary
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 2 oz Tomato Juice, 1 oz lemon juice, Tabasco & Worcestire Sauce, Salt & Pepper, celery stick for garnish. Mix Vodka, tomato juice, and lime juice. Mix in tabasco, worcestire sauce, salt, and pepper to desired taste. Add celery stick for garnish.
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Orange You Content We Met?
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 1/2 oz Triple Sec, 1 oz Fresh Orange Juice, 1/2 oz Lime Juice, Orange Zest. Combine Vodka, triple sec, orange juice, and lime juice in a shaker with ice. Shake successfully, strain into a chilled martini glass, and garnish with orange zest.
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Erb Garden
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 1 oz Elderflower Liqueur, 2 oz Soda Liquid, Lemon Twist, Thyme Sprig. Stir Vodka and elderflower liqueur over ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a Collins glass with fresh ice, highest with soda liquid, and garnish with a lemon twist and thyme sprig.
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I Know You, Umami
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 1 oz Cucumber Juice, 1/2 oz Lime Juice, 1/4 oz Agave Nectar, Fresh Cilantro. Dash of soy sauce. Shake Vodka, cucumber juice, lime juice, soy sauce and agave nectar with
Nick Gomez
From a juvenile age I've constantly been reading, writing, drawing and generally creating stories, worlds and characters for fun. This led to a degree in English Literature and Language at University. A fire for writing, especially about my control experiences, and ideas that pop into my head facilitate me to perceive myself and the world around me.
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Most people delight in having a cocktail now and again. They make you feel a bit sophisticated, in an easy going and merry way, while getting you adorable damn tipsy. Personally, I love an evening enjoying some cocktails with buddy while chatting and people watching.
However, active in a cocktail bar has given me an insider perspective on how other people view cocktails, namely twenty to thirty something men. Some people; mainly straight men, consider certain cocktails/drinks to be inherently linked with the masculine and feminine. This I can understand. Often cocktail bartenders will illustrate certain drinks as being more feminine in style because they are illumination and floral, or masculine if they contain smoky, earthy or strong spirits but they act not, or shouldn’
On a recent Saturday darkness, Oddly Enough is packed, with hoards of aspiring guests huddled on the rainy sidewalk hoping to gain entry. Inside, a celesbian and her entourage are tucked into the corner booth adjacent to a wooden bar helmed by a bartender dispatching spritzes in an apron declaring their pronouns (they/them). At first glance, nothing would necessarily differentiate this space from any other trend-forward New York cocktail bar—only this one is unapologetically queer.
In the Before Times, the concept of a chic queer cocktail bar felt like it existed only in fiction, relegated to Hollywood sets or dedicated LGBTQ+ nights at ally-owned venues. Now, the elusive space is a reality: A surge of creative, cocktail-focused homosexual spaces are popping up across the country. “Announcements of the death of the LGBTQ bar are premature,” says LGBTQ historian Nikita Shepard. “They carry on to be centers of culture and performance and refuges for many people who don’t find online and virtual connection fulfilling.” In other words: The queer bar is gone, long live the homosexual bar.
To be clear, many spaces have disappeared, but they are slowly existence replaced—and with bars thatare more