As a queer Che kid, I felt at home both Detro's gay and Che neighborhoods. But I worried I had to choose one.
Contents:
- TWO GAY MALE CHEFS TALK PRI, THEMSELV AND THEIR WORK
- WHO IS THE GAY TV CHEF?
- DETRO’S CHATOWN AND GAYBORHOOD FELT LIKE TWO SEPARATE WORLDS. THEN THEY COLLID
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
TWO GAY MALE CHEFS TALK PRI, THEMSELV AND THEIR WORK
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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.
WHO IS THE GAY TV CHEF?
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.
DETRO’S CHATOWN AND GAYBORHOOD FELT LIKE TWO SEPARATE WORLDS. THEN THEY COLLID
Roberto Santibañez is the gay chef and owner of morn Mexin rtrant Fonda, wh three lotns throughout New York Cy, along wh Mi Vida and The Grill (culary director), both Washgton D. “There’s a difference between leadg by fear and workg when you’re sred vers leadg wh rpect and wantg to work hard for someone bee you actually rpect people, ” she told GayCi. He penned an say for The Guardian 2013 lled “Why I’m Comg Out as a Gay Father, ” tailg the surrogacy procs he and his longtime partner, Karl Allen, went through to start their fay.
Women of urse have a tough time excellg an environment that reeks of machismo, but what about gay men, who also face potential discrimatn? As Gay Pri Month to a close, I spoke wh two chefs who have siar but distct experienc as gay, and Asian, men kchens, where the personal and profsnal liv of mori evably lli. When I spoke to Atlas Manuel Amante, the Chef Tournant at Eataly New York Cy, who’s currently preppg a pop-up dner seri lled Nuno, he said, “Beg Asian and beg gay the kchen is tomatilly seen as beg weak.
Even the gay muny, I’m not gay enough. I’m gay, I’m Filipo, this is who I reprent and at the same time, I’m a good person. Ong has also ma so that beg gay or Asian isn’t necsarily a hdrance to his reer, sce his background and experience entails a h or different perspective.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
He then feels more fortable revealg he’s gay when, “They see the way I work and what I uld do at work. I don’t want beg gay to be somethg they see as an obstacle for me to perform my job. To Ong, beg gay is not the primary issue of his life or reer.
[Image urty Pichet Ong]When Ong or any gay profsnal ss down to dner, they don’t jt talk about beg gay. For stance, Amante’s dner seri Nuno won’t ter specifilly to the gay muny, but aims for a munal, acceptg environment which would make gay people and Asians feel as at home as anyone else. 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.