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Contents:

• OREO COOKI' GAY PRI BACKLASH: 25 COMPANI AND PRODUCTS BOYTTED FOR SUPPORTG LGBT RIGHTS
• OREO OKI GO GAY NEW MERCIAL
• OREO COOKIE TWEETS LGBT AD OF GAY MAN 'COMG OUT' TO HIS FAY AND CONVERSATIV ARE FUMG
• GAY OREOS
• "I DO NOT LIKE GAY OKI": CONSERVATIV VOW TO BOYTT OREO OVER NEW AD
• OREO'S GAY PRI COOKIE CONTROVERSY
• RABOW OREO? GAY PRI OREO?
• OREO GO FULL WOKE, ‘COM OUT’ WH ‘GAY COOKIE’ SHORT FILM [VIDEO]
• TOO GAY AN OREO!: THE CULTURAL CONNOTATNS OF QUEER(G) FOOD
• OREO SE SUPPORT, BUT ALSO BACKLASH AND BOYTT, FOR GAY PRI RABOW OKIE

OREO COOKI' GAY PRI BACKLASH: 25 COMPANI AND PRODUCTS BOYTTED FOR SUPPORTG LGBT RIGHTS

Oreo Cookie released a new ad Monday that celebrat a young man g out as gay to his fay. His immediate fay already knows he’s gay and is supportive of him, but he is nervo about g out to his grandmother, who is soon visg. Crics sp as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, but the law do not mentn the word “Gay.

” The post was wily celebrated but also sparked a backlash, as me amid the gay-marriage bate at the time.

OREO OKI GO GAY NEW MERCIAL

A later, LGBTQ+ rights are aga at the center of the culture wars, as Texas has passed a ntroversial anti-trans law, and Florida has passed s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. A 2016 McDonald’s Taiwan ad went viral, showg a gay son g out to his dad over ffee at the goln arch. ‘The Note’ is an timated retellg of a young Che-Amerin man and his journey of g out as gay to all of his fay members.

’ Folx Health ns ‘Say Gay’ billboards stat wh anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn This year Oreo is ntug s partnership wh PFLAG (parents, fai and iends of lbians and gays), an anizatn that was found 1973 after Jeanne Manford publicly supported her gay will be donatg $500, 000 to advance the pany’s missn providg support, tn and advocy to LGBTQ+ people, their parents and fai, and alli.

OREO COOKIE TWEETS LGBT AD OF GAY MAN 'COMG OUT' TO HIS FAY AND CONVERSATIV ARE FUMG

The okie pany has e unr fire the past for s Gay Pri rabow biscus on Facebook, and aga after they appeared to fet the lbian flag a 2020 Twter a member and fierce champn of both the LGBTQ+ and Asian Amerin muni, Wu was a natural choice to brg this g-out story to life an thentic and impactful way. The okie pany’s display of solidary wh the LGBTQ+ muny was mostly met by posive feedback, but also received blatantly homophobic cricism and nouncements. The ntroversy ensured that Oreo was ducted to the hall of fame of ‘Gay Food.

’ But what is ‘Gay Food’? In popular media, discsns on ‘queer’ food pertag to the voicg of ristance and solidary clu a number of vlogs like ‘gay fay Mbang’ and vios on ‘gay’ food recip that have ntributed to a strategisg of inty and sexualy polics through food.

‘Gay Food’: Queerg Recip, Plat, and Palat. Gay/ queer food okbooks have ntributed greatly towards this posive strategy of queerg food and culary practic. One example is the openly gay food lumnist Craig Claiborne whose New York Tim Cookbook (1961) beme one of the btsellg okbooks the latter part of the twentieth century (see Crimms 46).

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This form of wrg about ‘gay food’ has sce been rried forward by several okbook wrers; Howard Aten’s The Myra Breckridge Cookbook (1970), Rick Leed’s Dner for Two (1981), Donna Clark’s The Queer Cookbook (1997), Victor J Banis’ The C.

Cookbook (2012), and Daniel Isengart’s The Art of Gay Cookg: A Culary Memoir (2018) are some exampl. For example, How the Homosexuals Saved Civilizatn (2004), Cathy Crimms not that the e of ‘exotic gredients, ’ ‘flamboyant prentatn, ’ and ias like ‘fn’ and ‘gourmet’ rm the dynamics of ‘queer’-g culary practic. She also avers that many of such ‘exotic, ’ queer culary gredients as “pto, humm, olive tapena, balsamic vegar, quoa, shi, viar, wild mhrooms and arbor rice” (47) were “stapl gay kchens and rtrants” (47) long before they beme wily available supermarkets for nsumptn by the public.

More recently, Simon Doonan’s Gay Men Don’t Get Fat (2012) has advoted the age of terms like ‘gay food’ ntemporary parlance. In the chapter tled ‘Maroons are so gay!, ’ he provis distctns between ‘straight food’ and ‘gay food’ as such: “Straight foods are basic and unntrived.

"I DO NOT LIKE GAY OKI": CONSERVATIV VOW TO BOYTT OREO OVER NEW AD

Gay foods are fiddly and foofy.

Gay foods are brightly lored” (63). He nsirs shi to be the “gayt food on earth” (63) as “Shi chefs are basilly takg sloppy bs of fish and magilly reworkg them to exquise bonbons” (63). Siarly, mentg on Italian sserts, he clar that gelato is “always a big gay h” (64) while gusg that “Stracciatella simply has to be the name of a drag queen om Puglia” (64).

OREO'S GAY PRI COOKIE CONTROVERSY

The queerg of food that Doonan talks about entails two elements of the appropriatn of culary practic: firstly, the procs and the art of creatg somethg edible and simultaneoly different symboliz a rponse to hegemonic homophobia; sendly, the ia of transferrg the culary art of one culture to the culary parlance of another and producg a nsumable piece of novelty not hybridy, symbolizg the pri of beg variedly ‘queer’ a polarized hetero-normative society. ‘Queer Kchens’: Cookg Food the Gay Way. In the ntexts of gay food, the procs of makg food queer and more specifilly, the ia of ‘queer kchens’ plays a ccial role re-prentg, stag, and celebratg both queer culary cultur and queer sexual exprsns.

In Queerg the Kchen: A Manifto (2018), Daniel Isengart claims that the fluence of gay men on culary arts is a topic largely overlooked (1); he rms that his unrstandg of a “gay approach to okg” reveals the cultur of gay okg that has remaed the closet and needs to have a “grand g-out” (2). In effect, Isengart hts at a long-nng tradn of queerg food and wrg and discsg gay culary polics.

Stephanie Rosenbm Klassen’s article, reportg a nversatn among queer kchen rtratrs and gay men’s food crics, rells chef John Birdsall’s mentary on the “queer athetic morn food culture” rooted the work of three Amerin food wrers: Jam Beard, Craig Claiborne, and Richard Olney. In Birdsall’s own words: “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” (qtd.

RABOW OREO? GAY PRI OREO?

Siarly, his award-wng article tled “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” Birdsall reflects that the creatn and populary of queer kchens and their food speaks of transgrsive acts of inty assertn, ristg homophobia related to queer stereotypg of food cultur and showsg a pri queerns general. For example, a nversatn between gay food wrer Simon Doonan and New York Tim rrponnt Jeff Gordier, Doonan pots out to the menu of a ‘queer’ rtrant they vis Greenwich Village New York:.

It’s actually a very good mixture of gay and straight. Jt the words ‘baby agula salad’ — you know you have some gay optns. Evintly, the nnotatns of queerg food travers mere queer intifitn and enters to a discursive assertn of not only eatg habs and preferenc but also the acpanyg sexual polics, all of which n be discerned and accsed through a keen readg of a ‘gay food’ menu a ‘queer rtrant.

OREO GO FULL WOKE, ‘COM OUT’ WH ‘GAY COOKIE’ SHORT FILM [VIDEO]

Reed’s Dner at Jack’s (2016) have gay protagonists who fall love through timaci that are foced on the transformative powers of okg and eatg together. A siar ncept of the utili of ‘gay food’ has been employed by Fumi Fumi Yoshaga her manga seri tled What Did You Eat Yterday? Siarly, chartg a history of sir India, Madhavi Menon’s Infe Variety (2018) provis the example of the paan s (homo)erotic ntexts (see 273-285).

In his short story “Cholate” (1924), ‘Ugra’ first brought ‘homosexualy’ to the fore lonial India but did so a way that negatively portrayed the possibili of homoeroticism and homosocialy among men. More than the general nsens about their (homo)erotic and aphrodisiac quali, the symbolic reprentatn of paan and cholate his fictn by ‘Ugra’ speaks of the ways which narrativ, cultur, and polics of ‘queer’-ns and food are, more often than not, tertwed. Apart om the polics of narrativizg ‘gay food’ fictn, the polics of accsg food for/ by LGBTQ+ dividuals has bee an issue of much foc and nttatn recent tim.

Indrajeet Ghorpa’s experience Hyrabad earlier this year, when he and his boyiend were nied entry to a rtrant by the staff on grounds of beg a ‘gay uple, ’ ed a shift how nsumg food is perceived ntemporary India. Ghorpa’s next onle petn, that urged Zomato to be stricter terms of s homophobic alli, brgs to the fore the disntent that the ‘LGBTQIA Friendly’ tag entails terms of certa double-standards, non-disclosed creria, and lack of proper actns agast rtrants that ntue to be anti-LGBTQ+.

TOO GAY AN OREO!: THE CULTURAL CONNOTATNS OF QUEER(G) FOOD

Neverthels, the numero ‘gay’/ ‘queer’ clive/ iendly eatg spac that now functn many Indian ci stand ttimony to the creasg tersectns between food, sexualy, and spac.

“Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay. How the Homosexuals Saved Civilizatn: The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Morn World.

OREO SE SUPPORT, BUT ALSO BACKLASH AND BOYTT, FOR GAY PRI RABOW OKIE

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