Four Years Before Stonewall, ‘The Gay Cookbook’ Showed a Never-Before-Seen Si of Queer Life | Hor, the Queer Social Network

Contents:

• YEARS BEFORE STONEWALL, A CHEF PUBLISHED THE FIRST GAY COOKBOOK
• FOUR YEARS BEFORE STONEWALL, ‘THE GAY COOKBOOK’ SHOWED A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SI OF QUEER LIFE

YEARS BEFORE STONEWALL, A CHEF PUBLISHED THE FIRST GAY COOKBOOK

The Gay Cookbook was a culary trailblazer. On January 21, 1966, Time magaze ran a story entled “The Homosexual Ameri. ” The anonymo thor cricized the growg activism and visibily of gay people Ameri, notg that many of them “apparently do not sire a cure” for their sexuali.

FOUR YEARS BEFORE STONEWALL, ‘THE GAY COOKBOOK’ SHOWED A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SI OF QUEER LIFE

As an example, the thor referenced advertisements for a new publitn: The Gay Cookbook by Lou Rand Hogan, a book that ma no apologi prentg an image of happy men okg elaborate meals for their lovers.

It was published years before the Stonewall rts igned the gay rights movement Ameri, and at the time, wily advertisg a okbook for gay men was fairly edgy. But the thor of The Gay Cookbook was no stranger to the gay publishg scene.