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HOW GAY IS YOUR FOOD?

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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.

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

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