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    How food helps in being gay and happy

    The book is a collection of standard recipes, chattily told with risqué jokes and innuendos — no cucumber or banana goes unmentioned.

    Synopsis

    The gay community existed before Stonewall, and one entertaining proof is The Gay Cookbook by chef Lou Rand Hogan, published in 1965.

    Pride Month commemorates New York’s Stonewall riots in June 1969, commonly said to have kicked off the LGBT rights movement. It is now being marked in India by organisations as varied as the Bengaluru FC soccer team and a North Goa bakery which has produced bread in rainbow colours. But the gay community existed before Stonewall, and one entertaining proof is The Gay Cookbook by chef Lou Rand Hogan, published in 1965. Subtitled “the complete
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