We ught up wh Sean O'Callaghan, aka Fat Gay Vegan, to get his views on the changg vegan movement and lve to what life is like as a popular vegan fluencer.
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
It took 10 years of eatg tofu before I realized my extreme healthy liftyle was signed to hi the fact that I'm gay. * are all vegans 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.
“And although ’s ed some d annoyance, hasn’t impacted my life a way that homophobia has, ” he strs.
VEGANISM THE GAY MUNY
Pri Month celebrat all the LGBTQIA+ space, cludg queer and trans vegan activists like vegan drag queen Honey LaBronx and blogger Fat Gay Vegan. * are all vegans gay *
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. I beme acctomed to teasg and shamg – om digs at the apparently tastels gel I was nsumg to the ubiquo e of “gay” as an sult, mostly om guys who seemed offend by my cisn to not eat ad thgs.
THE CHANGG VEGAN MOVEMENT: FAT GAY VEGAN
I get lled a ‘soy boy’ and there’s a lot of: ‘Ed mt be gay, bee he’s 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.