32 Gay, Bi, & Lbian Chefs Who Competed on 'Top Chef'

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AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL

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In a powerful and heart-wrenchg say wrten after the 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shootg, tled "I'm Gay and This Is Why You Should Care, " Twty lv to his own past and the long leag that make him, proudly, who he is. On top of beg a highly acclaimed thor and chef, Ottolenghi is a proud gay man and father. In an article he wrote for The Guardian on gay fatherhood and g out as a gay father, Ottolenghi addrs his own feelgs of disfort at beg vol and visible about his sexual orientatn.

TOP GAY CHEF? OUT KCHEN MATROS HAVE THRIVED ON TV SHOWS LIKE TOP CHEF. BUT THE REAL-LIFE RTRANT WORLD? NOT SO MUCH. REBEC MARX LOOKS AT WHY.

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Lou Hogan, Contributor to Gourmet magaze, and thor of 'The Gay Cookbook' (1965). But when to mercial kchens, women are still unrpaid and unrreprented -- that go double for lbian 's no secret that the culary dtry is male-domated, but acrdg to gay and lbian chefs, the macho environment has ltle tolerance for anythg feme -- whether that be a woman or a gay man whom workers view as culary dtry's misogyny is well documented. Dpe numero gay and lbian personali on Bravo and Food Network, cludg Ted Allen of Chopped, Cat Cora of Around the World 80 Plat, Elizabeth Falkner of Iron Chef, San Feniger of Too Hot Tamal, Anne Burrell of Worst Cooks Ameri, and Top Chef's Art Smh, out chefs who work the dtry say they're still the mory.

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"There don't tend to be a lot of gay chefs, " says Yig Pura, a gay pastry chef and wner of the first season of Top Chef: Jt Dserts, and who September opened his own San Francis shop, Tout Sweet Patisserie.

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32 Gay, Bi, & Lbian Chefs Who Competed on 'Top Chef' .

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