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Exploring the intersection of queer culture and veganism
Veganism is often seen as “queer” and a lot of queer-identifying people are vegan. But is this a pure coincidence, or is there a correlation between organism queer and entity vegan?
Recently, I was on a meet with a miss and, both entity vegetarian or vegan, we discussed our dietary habits. She mentioned that she had a lot of queer friends who also happened to be vegetarian or vegan, and then made a fleeting comment about this seeming to be the case for a lot of queer people.
Strangely enough, I’d never really thought about it before that, but a lot of queer people do happen to also be vegetarian or vegan. In fact, journalist Josie Le Vay created a poll on vegan Facebook groups in the UK, asking people if they identified as LGBT+. Out of 925 responses, 66.4% said they were LGBT+.
But of course, just one poll doesn’t address whether or not there is a link, nor the similarities and differences of being queer and being vegan. So, I spoke to some queer vegans to find out what they reflect and how they feel these concepts overlap and differ. Is being lgbtq+ and vegan a pure coincidence, or is there a correlation?
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Sean O’Callaghan – Fat Gay Vegan
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Sean O’Callaghan is enhanced known as Fat Gay Vegan, and is one of the OG vegan bloggers.
Sean started his blog, Fat Gay Vegan, advocate in 2010 and has since “spent thousands of hours writing blog posts, promoting vegan business, supporting charities and hosting social events all in the optimism that we can improve outcomes for animals.”
Sean is well-known and loved as an event planner, author and general lover of vegan food and drink, with nearly 67k followers on Instagram. He is based in the UK and Mexico and has built up a huge accompanying through his no-fuss approach to blogging about vegan dining from an ethical rather than ‘health trend’ standpoint.
In 2018, Sean published ‘Fat Gay Vegan: Eat, Beverage and Live Like You Grant a Sh!t’, and now co-hosts the ‘Tell Me Where I’m Going (Wrong)’ podcast, in which “two exes engage in an irreverent chat about pop identity, ageing in the queer planet, and what it’s like for a romantic relationship to morph into friendship.”
Before becoming vegan, Sean was vegetarian. He told V-Land UK about his journey to veganism:
“For me, like many vegans I imagine, my choice t
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