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Contents:

• HOW GAY IS YOUR FOOD?
• A SOUP THAT ROXANE GAY ACTUALLY ENJOYS
• COOKG CLASS | ROXANE GAY’S TOMATO SOUP & GRILLED CHEE
• CHICK-FIL-A COPYT (ORIGAL CHICK-FIL-GAY SANDWICH)

HOW GAY IS YOUR FOOD?

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A SOUP THAT ROXANE GAY ACTUALLY ENJOYS

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COOKG CLASS | ROXANE GAY’S TOMATO SOUP & GRILLED CHEE

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CHICK-FIL-A COPYT (ORIGAL CHICK-FIL-GAY SANDWICH)

Hamburger Mary’s is “takg somethg as all-Amerin as a burger but makg gay, ” Wright says.

This isn’t acplished merely by servg vegan Beyond Burgers but, stead, by prentg one of Ameri’s most inic foods a cidly gay ntext. “But there’s drag queens here and there’s trans people and gays, lbians, all lors, all ag. Also, lerally leggy cktail glass, burgers as large as the pecs of the hunky servers that liver them, and a “No Hate” chicken sandwich parodyg a certa homophobic Southern cha: All are a part of Hamburger Mary’s long, hard participatn the queer cultural athetic tradn of mp.

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