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Season 3 gave our first gay wner, wh Chef Hung Huynh wng the whole season. Dale, another gay chef, also ma the fale, g send place. In season 6, Ashley spoke out about how the nttants were ma to ok for a weddg while she, and other gay nttants, uldn't legally get married.

Season 11 featured gay chef Travis Masar. 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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The sensibili of this trifecta of closeted gay men had far-reachg fluence, changg the way Amerins oked and ate. As Birdsall has wrten, "It's food that tak pleasure serly, as an end self, an assertn of polics or a human birthright, the product of culture — this is the legacy of gay food wrers who shaped morn Amerin food. " It was this narrowly macho foc that led Birdsall to set the rerd not-so-straight wh Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, his Lucky Peach say that won a Jam Beard Journalism Award 2014.

Birdsall, now 56, remembers he and a boyiend readg aloud om Olney's wrgs, feelg like they were gettg a glimpse of a secret gay world — one that was, by necsy, elive.

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Mistry, who origally wanted to be a filmmaker, was spired by the chefs' creativy and fearlsns, so much so that she left a job the "gay bubble" of Framele to start trag fe dg at Claridge's London.

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Birdsall, who won a send Jam Beard Award for Straight Up Passg — an article about gay chefs Jarry's first issue — se queer okg as an act of anti-normative transgrsn and ristance.

In fact, several high-profile, out chefs bristled at beg tegorized as "gay chefs, " much the way that many artists rist beg fed as "women wrers" or "female micians. Or was jt that the chefs — whe and cisgenr, as Mistry pots out — still feared the repercsns of embracg a higher-profile gay inty, even the more equal tim? But several plac around the untry, they rema anchors of safety and Raff for The New York TimPublished May 28, 2021Updated May 29, 2021Stt Frankel’s favore memori of New York gay rtrants aren’t about food.