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Contents:

• FOOD LOVE FUN GAY COLLECTN
• ROMANTIC GAY DNER IAS TO SET THE DATE NIGHT MOOD
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• AMSTERDAM GAY CAFéS & RTRANTS

FOOD LOVE FUN GAY COLLECTN

Indian activists and members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny take part a pri para Siliguri on December 30, 2018. Google has marked Gay Pri wh s latt Doodle. Wrer John Birdsall (om left), photographer Nik Sharma, rtratr and chef Preeti Mistry talk about the ncept of the "queer kchen" wh Las Volger, the edor of Jarry, a gay men's food magaze.

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The gatherg was anized by the New York-based gay men's food magaze, Jarry, a twice-yearly prt publitn lnched last fall. The sensibili of this trifecta of closeted gay men had far-reachg fluence, changg the way Amerins oked and ate. As Birdsall has wrten, "It's food that tak pleasure serly, as an end self, an assertn of polics or a human birthright, the product of culture — this is the legacy of gay food wrers who shaped morn Amerin food.

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" It was this narrowly macho foc that led Birdsall to set the rerd not-so-straight wh Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, his Lucky Peach say that won a Jam Beard Journalism Award 2014.

Birdsall, now 56, remembers he and a boyiend readg aloud om Olney's wrgs, feelg like they were gettg a glimpse of a secret gay world — one that was, by necsy, elive.

Mistry, who origally wanted to be a filmmaker, was spired by the chefs' creativy and fearlsns, so much so that she left a job the "gay bubble" of Framele to start trag fe dg at Claridge's London. It wasn't jt that the women were out, at a time when rtrant kchens uld still be tough plac for women, gay or straight.

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A py of Jarry, a gay men's food magaze, next to tote bags that read "Cheers Queers.

' " It was a clash of sensibili, his gay, hers queer.

The youngt of the group, he says g out wasn't an issue, but fdg a gay social circle when he first started medil school wasn't easy. A chat wh a gay profsor led to an vatn to the med school's "secret gay potluck" — secret not out of fear, but simply bee "they didn't want any straights to e, " said Sharma. Birdsall, who won a send Jam Beard Award for Straight Up Passg — an article about gay chefs Jarry's first issue — se queer okg as an act of anti-normative transgrsn and ristance.

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In fact, several high-profile, out chefs bristled at beg tegorized as "gay chefs, " much the way that many artists rist beg fed as "women wrers" or "female micians. Or was jt that the chefs — whe and cisgenr, as Mistry pots out — still feared the repercsns of embracg a higher-profile gay inty, even the more equal tim?

And yet, as a gay man-ish person, I have always found the dners to be an unniably queer space, even if I uldn’t offer the exact reason why. Is the fact that Quenux is gay? That’s an important startg pot, but plenty of events and rtrants n by gay chefs are not necsarily queer.

No flourish of sce mak a dish bisexual, nor do flambe make your duck or ice cream “homosexual”: the are terms applied to people, and on that don’t transfer to food, even if an LGBTQ someone igned that dish. Jt as the gay bar is only the tip of the queer-nightlife iceberg, the explicly queer food bs is only the most visible aspect of a much larger, often unseen universe of queer food, one that’s been evolvg and shapg Amerin culture for s.