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Contents:
- THE JOY OF GAY COOKG: THE ART OF SIMPLISISSYTY
- IS QVC HOST DAVID VENABLE GAY? IS HE MARRIED TO A WIFE? CHILDREN?
- GAY NEW YORK CY
- THE BT GAY BARS HELL'S KCHEN
THE JOY OF GAY COOKG: THE ART OF SIMPLISISSYTY
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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. 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.
Wrer John Birdsall (om left), photographer Nik Sharma, rtratr and chef Preeti Mistry talk about the ncept of the "queer kchen" wh Las Volger, the edor of Jarry, a gay men's food magaze. The gatherg was anized by the New York-based gay men's food magaze, Jarry, a twice-yearly prt publitn lnched last fall. The sensibili of this trifecta of closeted gay men had far-reachg fluence, changg the way Amerins oked and ate.
IS QVC HOST DAVID VENABLE GAY? IS HE MARRIED TO A WIFE? CHILDREN?
From the looks of Bravo and the Food Network, gay and lbian chefs are ubiquo. But big-name LGBT oks say they're still the mory -- unrpaid and unrreprented. * gay in the kitchen *
As Birdsall has wrten, "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.
" It was this narrowly macho foc that led Birdsall to set the rerd not-so-straight wh Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, his Lucky Peach say that won a Jam Beard Journalism Award 2014. Birdsall, now 56, remembers he and a boyiend readg aloud om Olney's wrgs, feelg like they were gettg a glimpse of a secret gay world — one that was, by necsy, elive. Mistry, who origally wanted to be a filmmaker, was spired by the chefs' creativy and fearlsns, so much so that she left a job the "gay bubble" of Framele to start trag fe dg at Claridge's London.
It wasn't jt that the women were out, at a time when rtrant kchens uld still be tough plac for women, gay or straight. A py of Jarry, a gay men's food magaze, next to tote bags that read "Cheers Queers.
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When the Amerin food revolutn began the 1950s and ‘60s, was somethg of a gay ltle pond filled wh epicur (many of whom were actually g ... * gay in the kitchen *
' " It was a clash of sensibili, his gay, hers queer.
The youngt of the group, he says g out wasn't an issue, but fdg a gay social circle when he first started medil school wasn't easy. A chat wh a gay profsor led to an vatn to the med school's "secret gay potluck" — secret not out of fear, but simply bee "they didn't want any straights to e, " said Sharma.
Birdsall, who won a send Jam Beard Award for Straight Up Passg — an article about gay chefs Jarry's first issue — se queer okg as an act of anti-normative transgrsn and ristance.
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Gay Celebry Chef Art Smh Talks About 'Queer In The Kchen,' Lady Gaga And More * gay in the kitchen *
In fact, several high-profile, out chefs bristled at beg tegorized as "gay chefs, " much the way that many artists rist beg fed as "women wrers" or "female micians.
Or was jt that the chefs — whe and cisgenr, as Mistry pots out — still feared the repercsns of embracg a higher-profile gay inty, even the more equal tim? Whether was issu of racism gay clubs, gay youth issu, issu specifilly pertag to black, queer people, I’ve kept an active profile.
Beg a gay culary figure is important to me bee ’s a legacy built on the shoulrs of Jam Beard, Craig Claiborne, Bill Neal, and many others. When I was wrg The Cookg Gene, beme very important to me to do what they uldn’t do, which was to say, hey, gay chefs e om gay kids who once dreamed of wowg people wh their food and flair. Even though we stggle wh anti-gay sentiment the morn food world and kchen, knowg that there are so many women, men, and trans dividuals the food world mak me feel scribably and eply nnected.
Gay Celebry Chef Art Smh Talks About 'Queer In The Kchen,' Lady Gaga And More * gay in the kitchen *
“Most people n’t tell that I’m gay. I’m gay, ’” he repli.
Macch believ there are more lbian chefs than gay on and that the ont of the hoe opened the gat to gays and lbians the rtrant dtry.
“Half our ont of the hoe staff is gay, ” she says. “I n’t thk of any rtrant where there aren’t gays the ont of the hoe.
Several of the untry's leadg queer hospaly pros—Tiffanie Barriere, Tiffany Faison, John-Carter Ayanna, and Preeti Mistry—met wh Food & We's Senr Food Edor Mary-Franc Heck to discs genr the kchen, why gay bars aren't for everyone, and how to be more clive on both sis of the hoe." emprop="scriptn * gay in the kitchen *
The number of gays and lbians the ont of the hoe may be an ditn of an acceptg rtrant clientele. Ctomers don’t re that Jay Qualls, owner of Frosted Affair Nashville, Tennsee, is gay.
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Are they okay wh any gay person?
Homophobia is rampant Ameri’s rtrant kchens, and my profsnal and personal liv have both been shaped by . I was naive to thk that meant I would never experience homophobic and sexual abe the dtry.
(This abe don’t jt happen to openly gay people the kchen. If you are spected to be gay, you’re a target. If you’re a straight man but do not play to the hyper-masculy and sex talk, then there is somethg wrong wh you — you mt be gay — and you bee a target.
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Homophobia isn’t always as blatant as slurs and attacks. I did not bee a pastry chef bee I am gay.
Yet bee of the stereotype that gay men are for some reason naturally drawn to pastry, I have had to fight that much harr for the chance to grow outsi of the pastry partment.
Worst of all, I ntued to experience homophobia and abe. But when we see misogyny, racism, or homophobia seepg , we shut down. As days beme weeks beme months of not experiencg harassment or homophobia, I fally felt ready to get back to okg, and my send year there I started workg pastry aga.