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ROMANTIC GAY DNER IAS TO SET THE DATE NIGHT MOOD

Simon Doonan’s tongue--cheek book says straight food is heavy and gay food is lighter and more rative. Mix the two, he advis, to stay slim. * gay meal *

And yet, as a gay man-ish person, I have always found the dners to be an unniably queer space, even if I uldn’t offer the exact reason why. Is the fact that Quenux is gay? That’s an important startg pot, but plenty of events and rtrants n by gay chefs are not necsarily queer.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “GAY FOOD”?

* gay meal *

No flourish of sce mak a dish bisexual, nor do flambe make your duck or ice cream “homosexual”: the are terms applied to people, and on that don’t transfer to food, even if an LGBTQ someone igned that dish.

THE 'GAY DIET'

<p>If 'man food' is meat and 'girl food' is salad, what's 'gay food'?</p> * gay meal *

Jt as the gay bar is only the tip of the queer-nightlife iceberg, the explicly queer food bs is only the most visible aspect of a much larger, often unseen universe of queer food, one that’s been evolvg and shapg Amerin culture for s.

BNCH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE GAY?

I found when out queer woman Angela Dimayuga ran the kchen at New York’s Missn Che, wa staff along the genr spectm slippg my boyiend and me lorful, spicy dish wh a si of flirtatn, a playful nod we associated wh gay bars a few drks , not trendy rtrants. Durg sprawlg dners at my own apartment, my clique I ll the “gay bros” ll me the “Barelegged Contsa, ” thanks to my fondns for the Food Network star’s recip, served at a table becked wh seasonal r like dick-o’-lanterns while I waltz through the kchen short shorts.

The are all moments where the culary queer manifts as s own type of rabow: It wasn’t jt this or jt that which ma the meal a b gay; was a ltle of everythg, the magic of polil liv lived wh joy. Gay-owned Cupke Royale Seattle is known for their Gay cupke, the sal of which benef Genr Jtice League Washgton.

As rtrants across the untry toss some rabow food lorg to palize on Pri, queer-owned bs make much more meangful donatns — and that activism is part of what mak their rabow cupk gay, and not jt gay for pay, as Eater’s Adam Mosa wr.

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