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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AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
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GAY CHEF’S RTRANT SHUNNED BY LOLS AFTER TV KISS
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Season 11 featured gay chef Travis Masar. But wasn’t until adulthood that he realized gay people like him were prent the dtry. “Jeremiah, one of the most famo chefs San Francis, was gay.
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