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.
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- GAY DETROER JONATHAN PEREGRO TO APPEAR ON FOOD NETWORK’S ‘HOLIDAY BAKG CHAMPNSHIP’
- CHEF JASON SMH WIKI/B, GAY?, WIFE, KIDS, WORTH, A PERSONAL LIFE HELD CLOSE TO HIS CHT.
- I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?
- GAY BAKERS OM DALLAS SRE SPOT ON NETFLIX SHOW
- GAY BAKER HONORS KE REQUT WH HOMOPHOBIC MSAGE, WAS WORRIED ABOUT POTENTIAL LAWSU
GAY DETROER JONATHAN PEREGRO TO APPEAR ON FOOD NETWORK’S ‘HOLIDAY BAKG CHAMPNSHIP’
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CHEF JASON SMH WIKI/B, GAY?, WIFE, KIDS, WORTH, A PERSONAL LIFE HELD CLOSE TO HIS CHT.
The Food Network has Ace of Cak, TLC has The Cake Boss, so WE tv is pullg out the pk ke by featurg openly gay baker, Vny Buzzetta, the * gay baker on food network *
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I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?
But when to mercial kchens, women are still unrpaid and unrreprented -- that go double for lbian 's no secret that the culary dtry is male-domated, but acrdg to gay and lbian chefs, the macho environment has ltle tolerance for anythg feme -- whether that be a woman or a gay man whom workers view as culary dtry's misogyny is well documented.
Dpe numero gay and lbian personali on Bravo and Food Network, cludg Ted Allen of Chopped, Cat Cora of Around the World 80 Plat, Elizabeth Falkner of Iron Chef, San Feniger of Too Hot Tamal, Anne Burrell of Worst Cooks Ameri, and Top Chef's Art Smh, out chefs who work the dtry say they're still the mory. "There don't tend to be a lot of gay chefs, " says Yig Pura, a gay pastry chef and wner of the first season of Top Chef: Jt Dserts, and who September opened his own San Francis shop, Tout Sweet Patisserie.
Pura said the first chef he worked for was a lbian, so he didn't enunter much homophobia unr her learship. But unlike gay chefs, several lbian chefs reported ls bullyg due to their sexual orientatn and stead had to nont the sexist, male-domated mdset of the culary world.
GAY BAKERS OM DALLAS SRE SPOT ON NETFLIX SHOW
Falkner beme San Francis's facto gay weddg ke baker wh her flagship bakery, Cizen Cake, known for s unique, creative nstctns, and s proximy to Cy Hall. "Pura stggl wh the same stereotypil assumptn, wh the poundg factor that people assume all pastry chefs are gay, he says.
Elizabeth Falkner"Whether you're gay or straight, whether you're a Mlim, Christian, or Buddhist, people love food, " says Pura. "I've found that [food is] actually a really homogenizg pot.
"When somethg is lic, there's no homophobia or hatred. If they're gay, they're gay, but they are also great at what they do.
GAY BAKER HONORS KE REQUT WH HOMOPHOBIC MSAGE, WAS WORRIED ABOUT POTENTIAL LAWSU
"But the great chefs who happen to be gay and lbian aren't jt rtg on their lrels. Smh also partners wh Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundatn and Brish gby player Ben Cohen's antibullyg 4 of Top Chef: Masters featured a married gay uple petg agast each other, both for Mae chari that promote LGBT equaly.
Magaret ChoFeniger ss on the board of the Los Angel Gay and Lbian Center and partners wh and donat to several chari. The gut of honor sisted that Feniger and Lachman attend the party, and proudly troduced the uple to his nservative horts as "my new gay iends. As a gay person of lor who emigrated om Ankara, Turkey, at the age of 12, Pura says he was a target for bulli high school.
"The thgs that I always thought ma me different and weak -- I've found that actually, my adult life, those are the thgs that make me really strong and set me asi as an dividual, " he 's more, the prsure on gay and lbian chefs n actually drive them to succeed, Pura ntends. The Food Network has Ace of Cak, TLC has The Cake Boss, so WE tv is pullg out the pk ke by featurg openly gay baker, Vny Buzzetta, the newly premiered Staten Island Cak. I’m not que sure what’s up wh cute baker gay guys the days, but Vnie is surely givg San Francis’s Top Chef: Jt Dserts wner, Yig Pura, a n for the money that partment.