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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AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
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IN THE GAY COOKBOOK, DOMTIC BLISS WAS QUEER
A central figure the gourmet food and rtrant dtri was gay Amerin chef Jam Beard. Dpe their succs the okg world, there remas nsirable homophobia the culary dtry. Gay World 2018.
Lou Hogan, Contributor to Gourmet magaze, and thor of 'The Gay Cookbook' (1965). 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.
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