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- 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
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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.
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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. 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. " 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.
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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. 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.
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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.
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?
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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.