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- GAY EX-NAVY PASTRY CHEF WAS SO OBSSED WH ROOMMATE THAT HE MURRED GIRLIEND
- AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
GAY EX-NAVY PASTRY CHEF WAS SO OBSSED WH ROOMMATE THAT HE MURRED GIRLIEND
From the looks of Bravo and the Food Network, gay and lbian chefs are ubiquo. But big-name LGBT oks say they're still the mory -- unrpaid and unrreprented. * gay pastry chef *
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He penned an say for The Guardian 2013 lled “Why I’m Comg Out as a Gay Father,” tailg the surrogacy procs he and his longtime partner, Karl Allen, went through to start their fay. 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.
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AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
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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. "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. Pura said the first chef he worked for was a lbian, so he didn't enunter much homophobia unr her learship.