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• [VIO] ORR UP! GAY ATLANTA MAN AIMS TO BE FOOD NETWORK’S NEXT OKG STAR
• FOOD NET CHEF GAY & PROUD
• GAY S PROV H VIETNAM
• GAY
• HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN MP TAK LEAD ON MP 'GUS WHO'S GAY' REALY TV SHOW

[VIO] ORR UP! GAY ATLANTA MAN AIMS TO BE FOOD NETWORK’S NEXT OKG STAR

Season 3 gave our first gay wner, wh Chef Hung Huynh wng the whole season. Dale, another gay chef, also ma the fale, g send place.

FOOD NET CHEF GAY & PROUD

In season 6, Ashley spoke out about how the nttants were ma to ok for a weddg while she, and other gay nttants, uldn't legally get married. Season 11 featured gay chef Travis Masar.

The Seventi saw many women's rights, gay rights, and environmental movements.

The Barefoot Contsa -- n't shake a spatula whout htg one of her many gay iends, who are forever lg about her fabulo East Hampton kchen. She, Pla Deen, Nigella Lawson, Sandra Lee, and the rt of the Scripps Networks' culary fag-hag harem have gay men tung to and TiVo-g the Food Network and the Cookg Channel by the uchful.

GAY S PROV H VIETNAM

But, strangely, for all of this pk pantry programmg, you won't fd a sgle out gay chef chiffonadg on eher work. And y, 2005, Steve McDonagh and Dan Smh, two gay men (a uple no ls) won the first season of the Food Network's wildly popular realy petn The Next Food Network Star, and were award their own show, Party Le Wh the Hearty Boys, but after srg dismal ratgs was nceled wh a year. So, where exactly is the first (never md the next) gay Food Network star, and why hasn't he or she been disvered yet?

'We're always lookg to broan the diversy of our hosts, and we work hard to fd talent that has the expertise, charisma, and broad appeal necsary to work on our air, ' says Bob Tchman, general manager and senr vice print of the Food Network, one of several gay high-level executiv employed by Scripps. There's also the possibily that gay men have simply fallen to the chasm between the culturally sanctned domtic approach of female chefs and the rough, often borrle homophobic atmosphere of profsnal kchens that breed and boast Anthony Bourda typ. Until then, we'll have to settle for watchg Ina Garten's gay BFFs tuck to her famo tffle maroni and chee.

John-Pl Griff, a handsome gay Atlanta man who works as a nurse liverg babi, is ready to be the Food Network’s next star. Food Network star Anne Burrell has nfirmed she is gay after she was apparently outed by fellow work star Ted Allen. Last year, Out magaze noted that while the Food Network unts a sizable gay dience, none of s major stars have publicly e out.

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The first gay s nservative, munist Vietnam has bee a natnwi phenomenon, wh the openg episo of the 15-part seri receivg more than one ln YouTube views to date. A screen shot om the first episo of My Bt Gay Friends, which has received more than one ln YouTube views. My Bt Gay Friends, wrten by 21-year-old stunt Dang Khoa, featur homosexual Vietname actors, who volunteered to take part the project.

“I’ve seen many movi and edi about the homosexual muny, ” Mr Khoa told Tuoi Tre News. “The imag of homosexuals are very negative and dienc then have an ugly ia of the muny. I’m gay and I see my life as very normal.

HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN MP TAK LEAD ON MP 'GUS WHO'S GAY' REALY TV SHOW

That’s why I want to brg te imag of homosexuals to everyone, to change their perspective on .

But not all of the st members on My Bt Gay Friends are part of the lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) muny. Mh Thanh, 19, one of the heterosexual actors on My Bt Gay Friends, said: “Jog this show, I thk I’ve ntributed to changg people’s perspective on homosexuals. A woman pos wh a rabow flag displayg the words "Viet Pri" as she prepar to take part Vietnam's first ever gay pri para on a road Hanoi on Aug 5, 2012.