Contents:
- CHEF ANDREW ZIMMERN, A GAY SUPPORTER, RPONSIBLE FOR HIS FAILED MARRIED LIFE
- JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
CHEF ANDREW ZIMMERN, A GAY SUPPORTER, RPONSIBLE FOR HIS FAILED MARRIED LIFE
Andrew Zimmern, An Ally: Gay Sentiments Derived From ParentsIn his heart, the 60-year-old crafts a peaceful space for gay men. Bee his blogil parents divorced when he was a kid, the chef was adopted by a gay uple. He explaed how he grew up wh his gay parents a 2014 chat wh June 13, 2014, the culary explorer thanked his two fathers for all the love and re he received as a child an Instagram post.
He also exprsed his gratu to his fathers for their 47 years of marriage and stated that he hoped for every child to have lovg parents like 's gay fathers have been together for 47 years (Photo: Andrew Zimmern's Instagram) Dpe beg straight, he not only ador and supports gays, but he gets upset when others nmn the alternative liftyle. The urt ially stated that havg a kid raised by a gay person was not the child’s bt offend by the event, Zimmern shed to Facebook to tell his si of the tale, even llg the judge an "imbecile" for his views.
He went on to say that gay parents were preferable to straight parents who were both neglectful and abive. Birdsall and I discsed one of Beard’s many inti: his ght life as a gay man, a theme the book that Birdsall exam wh a jeweler’s exactg and lovg gaze. The terview was eded for clary and Lucky Peach article, “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” published 2013, set the stage for your reflectns on Jam Beard (and won a Beard award — meta).
JAM BEARD AND THE JOYS AND PAS OF GAY INTY
Related to the Lucky Peach piece was a nostalgia for my gay “uncl, ” Pat and Lou. And wrg “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” was really the first time that I unrked the bottle and let myself feel all of . For a lot of men Beard’s generatn, lonels and isolatn and exmunitn were part of beg gay.
I wasn’t ed to thkg about this way but gay people were really an opprsed mory — there was a btal system of opprsn. I was stck by how much misery was jt assumed, and taken for granted, by gay people.
I’m thkg of the summer 1956 when Jam [who was Spa to work on what beme an aborted book on we] sneaks away to Barcelona and meets up wh a iend om the Stat who is gay, and they have dner at a rtrant lled Los Caral.