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Anxiety, EatWhatYouLove, Food, Homophobia, IceCream, Masculinity, MintChip, Pride, Sexuality

Author: chavenet

The idea that food can turn you gay speaks to the depth of how food is coded. Food is used as both a signifier of the self and fuel for the body, the singular act of digestion taking what you see on the outside and literally turning it into yourself on the inside. You don't just enjoy ice cream. Ice cream becomes you. What does that make you, and in return, what do you make it? Maybe the fear goes deeper, and finally smacks against something it's been circling around in the dark. We know ice cream cannot make you gay. But if we are what we eat, there is the chance then, that what we eat could reflect, or affect, who we are. And could make us realize, in terror and glory, that who we thought we were is not so fixed. from The Food That Makes You Gay by Jaya Saxena [Eater]

#eat what you love

Many of our ideas around sexuality and queerness are a little incoherent