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Frh off an historic year, Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limed is poised for further growth 2017 wh amb plans for an expansn of s foods and gredients bs as well as for ntued vtment novative, dtry-leadg products. At today's Annual General Meetg, Michael Barrett, Print & CEO, highlighted the Co-operative's achievements 2016, clarg "a banner year" for Gay Lea Foods. Contued growth and an tensified mment to novatn 2017 will build on last year's succs which clu numero rerd settg . . .

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HOW GAY IS YOUR FOOD?

<em>The New York Tim</em>&nbsp;wh the help of Barney&#39;s creative ambassador Simon Doonan has cid this week that your food n be gay or straight. * michael gay food fresh *

Whether was issu of racism gay clubs, gay youth issu, issu specifilly pertag to black, queer people, I’ve kept an active profile. Beg a gay culary figure is important to me bee ’s a legacy built on the shoulrs of Jam Beard, Craig Claiborne, Bill Neal, and many others. When I was wrg The Cookg Gene, beme very important to me to do what they uldn’t do, which was to say, hey, gay chefs e om gay kids who once dreamed of wowg people wh their food and flair.

Even though we stggle wh anti-gay sentiment the morn food world and kchen, knowg that there are so many women, men, and trans dividuals the food world mak me feel scribably and eply nnected.

MICHAEL GAY

Michael Gay is a ligatn partner and natnal partment chair for Ligatn at Foley & Lardner LLP. Learn more about him here. * michael gay food fresh *

Michael Gay, Owner and Manager of Food Frh, Claxton, Geia. Michael Gay is the Manager of Food Frh, a full service pennt grocery store Claxton, GA owned by Michael’s fay, which has been the grocery bs for more than 40 years. The New York Tim wh the help of Barney's creative ambassador Simon Doonan has cid this week that your food n be gay or article is om the archive of our partner New York Tim wh the help of Barney's creative ambassador Simon Doonan has cid this week that your food n be gay or straight.

Apparently, a "gay" food isn't jt a potato that seeks marriage equaly, remds you was born this way, or owns a summer share on Fire Island.

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

Michael Barrett may have wanted to stand ont of a classroom, but stead he is standg ont of Canada's dairy dtry. The Print & CEO of Gay Lea Foods Co-operative has had the job for 5 years, leadg the pany through the biggt partnerships, vtments and purchas the pany… * michael gay food fresh *

Acrdg to Doonan, his new (satiril) book Gay Men Don't Get Fat and his terview wh The Tim today, gay food is lighter, brighter, more artistic, art-directed--food that you'd fd where health and athetics tersect (and that's very different than what Doonan labels "lbian food"--"Organic olive oil, thick porridge, heapg helpgs of wheat germ, " and s ilk). " We enjoyed Doonan's sweepg gay food generalizatns so we put them to the unscientific, anecdotal tt, assigned them a rpective Ksey ratg and me up wh your (pletely unscientific) gui to the sexualy of food, om gayt to straightt:What is: Shi; Sashimi; Cdo; Seafood Tartare; Ceviche What Doonan Says: "Japane food — that is some serly gay food... Basilly, you’re takg sloppy bs of fish and makg them to the exquise ltle bonbons, and that seems ordately gay to me.

" What Ksey Says: The Ksey 6 is "exclively homosexual" What We Say: That sort of mak sense.

MICHAEL GAY

Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limed today announced a signifint vtment of $140 ln over four years to tablish an novative, nutrn and nutractil-gra dairy gredients hub Canada. ... * michael gay food fresh *

You'd only eat this food a rtrant servg an assortment Doonan's other gay foods, whether 's an appetizer at an Italian rtrant or a ma at a Japane rtrant--the place probably serv lighter, stylized fare on stunng, perhaps over-worked plat.

The Outlier: Spicy Mayo Anythg Rolls; Supermarket Shi; Any roll wh more than three gredients or one ied object What is: Marons What Doonan Says: "The maron craze is the ne pl ultra of gay foorie. " What Ksey Says: The Ksey 5 is "predomantly homosexual, only cintally heterosexual" What We Say: Though they look like lorful cheeburgers, y, all tak is an "cintal" n- wh Cool Whip to that gay credibily.

" What Ksey Says: The Ksey 4 is "predomantly homosexual, but more than cintally heterosexual" What We Say: Clearly this isn't the first pairg between the black bean soup and the sour-cream pairg. " What Ksey Says: The Ksey 3 is "equally heterosexual and homosexual" or more simply, bisexual.

GAY LEA FOODS ANNOUNC RERD INVTMENT TO TRANSFORM CANADIAN DAIRY

What We Say: Dpe s fat ntent, Doonan mentns that Caar salad and certa pi may tilt more gay than you'd thk.

There are novelty mach ma pecially for pani-makg and grillg and certaly has more flair than a ham and chee on wheat bread--Doonan refers to wheat bread as "ferocly lbian and wildly heterosexual"--but all the hidn meats and chee certaly make this food an equal straddler of gay-straight le.

" What Ksey Says: The Ksey 2 is "predomantly heterosexual, but more than cintally homosexual" What We Say: The Tim wrer nces that although the meatloaf is unrelentgly heterosexual, non-potato-based sis like a salad substute n go a long way temperg the Burt Reynolds-ns of this dish. ’" What Ksey Says: The Ksey 1 is "predomantly heterosexual, only cintally homosexual" What We Say: Doonan explas that baked chips are herently gay... " What We Say: Burros are the clearly the hate crime of the gay food world and brg together Doonan's unholy try of meat, chee, and avodo (along wh that dodge-worthy sour cream).

2017 OUTLOOK FOR GAY LEA FOODS

As someone who is black, gay and Jewish, Twty is emblematic of everythg neo-Nazis rail agast. Michael Gay is a ligatn partner the Orlando office of Foley & Lardner LLP.

AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MICHAEL GAY FOOD FRESH

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