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.
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WHICH FOOD NETWORK CHEFS ARE GAY?
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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. "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.
WHO IS THE GAY TV CHEF?
Pura said the first chef he worked for was a lbian, so he didn't enunter much homophobia unr her learship.
But unlike gay chefs, several lbian chefs reported ls bullyg due to their sexual orientatn and stead had to nont the sexist, male-domated mdset of the culary world. Falkner beme San Francis's facto gay weddg ke baker wh her flagship bakery, Cizen Cake, known for s unique, creative nstctns, and s proximy to Cy Hall. "Pura stggl wh the same stereotypil assumptn, wh the poundg factor that people assume all pastry chefs are gay, he says.
Elizabeth Falkner"Whether you're gay or straight, whether you're a Mlim, Christian, or Buddhist, people love food, " says Pura. "I've found that [food is] actually a really homogenizg pot.
WHO IS GAY ON THE FOOD WORK?
"When somethg is lic, there's no homophobia or hatred. If they're gay, they're gay, but they are also great at what they do.
"But the great chefs who happen to be gay and lbian aren't jt rtg on their lrels. Smh also partners wh Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundatn and Brish gby player Ben Cohen's antibullyg 4 of Top Chef: Masters featured a married gay uple petg agast each other, both for Mae chari that promote LGBT equaly. Magaret ChoFeniger ss on the board of the Los Angel Gay and Lbian Center and partners wh and donat to several chari.
The gut of honor sisted that Feniger and Lachman attend the party, and proudly troduced the uple to his nservative horts as "my new gay iends. As a gay person of lor who emigrated om Ankara, Turkey, at the age of 12, Pura says he was a target for bulli high school.