The changg vegan movement: Fat Gay Vegan | The Vegan Society

Contents:

• I BEME VEGAN TO HI THE FACT THAT I'M GAY
• VEGANISM THE GAY MUNY
• THE CHANGG VEGAN MOVEMENT: FAT GAY VEGAN

I BEME VEGAN TO HI THE FACT THAT I'M GAY

Acrdg to the LGBTQIA+ anisatn, Stonewall, fewer than half (46%) of lbian, gay, bisexual, and (47%) transgenr people the UK are able to be open to their fay members about their sexualy or genr inty.

A vastatg 64% of LGBTQIA+ people reported experiencg homophobic abe or vlence, and half of LGBTQIA+ stunts schools hear homophobic slurs 'equently' or 'often'. G = Gay. Dr Sunni Patel, a gut health fluencer and scientist-clician, who is gay, has a different stance.

VEGANISM THE GAY MUNY

“And although ’s ed some d annoyance, hasn’t impacted my life a way that homophobia has, ” he strs. Among them, lbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, tersexual, and asexual/aromantic (LGBTQIA) folks have been tegral to the movement for animal liberatn. She has wrten and lectured on speciism and s ternnectns wh racism, homophobia, and transphobia, cludg ntributg chapters to more than seven books on animal liberatn, efemism, and anarchist studi, and thorg the books Aftershock: Conontg Trma a Vlent World: A Gui for Activists and Their Alli and The Oxen at the Intersectn: A Collisn.

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THE CHANGG VEGAN MOVEMENT: FAT GAY VEGAN

It was somethg to take my md off of my prsn, which, spe beg treated wh meditn, nearly pacated me durg the wter and whenever I was a the middle of my sophomore year at Oh State Universy, I noticed this girl. I stood the shower that night sobbg, wh the words “I’m gay” repeatg over and over my md like a twisted the next month, I me out to myself aga and aga, floatg through my daily activi wh a new lens of queerns. “I’m gay, ” I’d thk as I oked breakfast, soped the t box, or did Sun Salutatns.

“I know why I’ve been actg the way I have, ” I sputtered through tears, “It’s bee I’m gay. I drew flow charts to ensure I was absolutely, posively gay and not jt suatnally prsed. Sean O’Callaghan found Fat Gay Vegan.

Sean O’Callaghan is the founr of the popular London-based blog Fat Gay Vegan. He his platform to promote the latt vegan events and addrs fatphobia, racism, sexism, homophobia, sizeism, ableism, and wealth dispary and out of the vegan muny. O’Callaghan is also the thor of the book “Fat Gay Vegan: Eat, Drk, and Live Like You Give a Sh!