Andrew Zimmern's Dad Meets Big Gay Ice Cream | Andrew Zimmer Quot

Contents:

• CHEF ANDREW ZIMMERN, A GAY SUPPORTER, RPONSIBLE FOR HIS FAILED MARRIED LIFE
• A DEEPER, DARKER LOOK AT JAM BEARD, FOOD ORACLE AND GAY MAN
• IS ANDREW ZIMMERN GAY
• IS ANDREW ZIMMERN GAY?

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.

A DEEPER, DARKER LOOK AT JAM BEARD, FOOD ORACLE AND GAY MAN

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. The Reason behd Andrew Zimmern’s DivorceAfter his reer took off on televisn, Zimmern, a straight man raised by gay parents, left his rtrant bs and started a reer food media. The Big Gay Ice Cream duo Doug Qut and Bryan Petroff were also attendance manng the ssert statn, and, as is their wont, Team Zimmern set up s headquarters right next to their stand.

Birdsall, a wrer and former chef whose work foc on queer fluence Amerin food and homophobia the culary world.

IS ANDREW ZIMMERN GAY

S., those ias arrived through whe male gatekeepers like Beard, the New York Tim food edor Craig Claiborne and the members of the We and Food Society of New York, a group then domated by wealthy gay chefs who now scribe their food as “new Amerin” owe somethg to Beard, though most know him only as the face stamped on the culary medals btowed annually by the foundatn named for him.

IS ANDREW ZIMMERN GAY?

Birdsall lls the “msy” parts of his are sad, msy parts: the childhood ridicule Beard suffered bee of his size, the expulsn om llege bee of a sgle sex act, the anxiety he lived wh as a gay celebry when g out was Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of Jam BeardAnd there are troublg, msy parts: plagiarizg and takg cred for other people’s recip, acceptg paid endorsements for products that he did not always believe , and exposg himself to and fondlg young men who hoped for his profsnal support. Birdsall, who gaed accs to many of Beard’s unpublished wrgs, he knew he was gay om a very young age.

The first public airg of his gay inty was trmatic: In his hman year at Reed College, he was ught by his roommat a sexual enunter wh a profsor, and summarily expelled — a double huiatn that he never entirely revered expelled om Reed meant effectively beg banished om home — albe wh a wi soc-enomic safety . He sailed for Europe, disvered the gay unrground London and Paris, moved to New York and began his food reer the 1930s, terg parti thrown by Manhattan’s gay and art-world Joel/Getty ImagEven as he beme nfint and succsful, Beard always rried shame about his size; 6 feet 3 ch tall, he often weighed more than 350 pounds adulthood. “There was a whole fabulo gay food mafia livg downtown.

Zimmern’s father, a succsful advertisg executive, me out as gay and moved to Greenwich Village wh his partner the late Malosh for The New York Tim. He opened up about his love and tert a gay liftyle.