FOOD FIGHT! by Carol Diggory Shields, C. Shields, D. Gay-Kassel

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Several of the untry's leadg queer hospaly pros—Tiffanie Barriere, Tiffany Faison, John-Carter Ayanna, and Preeti Mistry—met wh Food & We's Senr Food Edor Mary-Franc Heck to discs genr the kchen, why gay bars aren't for everyone, and how to be more clive on both sis of the hoe." emprop="scriptn

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INTRODUCG THE MOST OUTRAGEOLY GAY FIGHT VIO OF ALL TIME

This vio rurfaced yterday followg the passg of John McCa (people were sayg was McCa and Obama 2008) and I n’t stop watchg . Mostly bee ’s hands down the gayt fight ... * gay food fight *

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?

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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

That’s an important startg pot, but plenty of events and rtrants n by gay chefs are not necsarily queer.

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'

For men who don’t f a narrow fn of masculy, gay or not, rtrant kchens n be a place of daily harassment * gay food fight *

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. 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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY FOOD FIGHT

FOOD FIGHT! by Carol Diggory Shields, C. Shields, D. Gay-Kassel.

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