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Brunch is gay

Straight aficionados brunch be forgiven for thinking Brunch is a gay so sacred to queer communities that we might as well have marched for the right to Brunch. Brunch is so gay we even have merch telling you it is. Queerness has become a practical blanket term for anyone on the LGBTQ spectrum, but it has radical roots in subversion and redefinition of society — including restaurant dining.

Long before avocado on toast changed the brunch game, the meal existed. Countries around the world celebrate Brunch in their inherent cultural style. In Canada, Brunch can brunch for several hours, according to esquires coffee. In Ireland, Brunch has been made popular by the gays before being adopted by late-rising millennials.

And while chicken galantines and port are a world and an era away from the chicken and waffles with mimosas we enjoy today; this meal was the first time breakfast, and lunch foods were combined into one mega-meal. Brunch could be described as a queer ritual, and in some ways, it has usurped the spot Catholicism held over Irish Sunday afternoons for years.

Brunch has been dominated by the queer community for so long that it is almost unilaterally shown as gay in pop culture. In the 90s, Shows like Sex and the City depicted brunches as rituals of urban sophistication, decked out with their token gay men and supported by others portrayed more like fashion accessories than humans.

Since then, the representation of queer people has improved in film and TV. One thing gay remained constant Brunch has been associated with queers. Brunch has been culturally queer for so long that there have been Twitter spats among the homophobes asserting that all men who brunch together must be gay.

These days there are even comic videos about brunch being gay. Pop culture has made Brunch synonymous with the contemporary queer experience. Brunch was invariably popularised by queer people because, for a time, it existed outside of acceptable norms much like the queer lifestyle itself. This bucking convention is a hallmark of queerness.

It challenged heterosexual expectations, however, minimally and gave the breakfast-lunch-and-dinner crew the gay finger. In that way, it started as a party and a protest. For a long time, queerness condemned to be expressed in the dark even if you were out. Gay spaces were generally pubs and clubs. All of which while providing essential community space, relegated it to after-sunset hours.

At Brunch, gays can gather and be themselves together in the sunshine. That was a bold and rebellious move to a society that would barely tolerate them in the dark. Crucially Brunch is affordable. Dinner has been a traditionally expensive way to socialise. Historically queer people found it hard to secure gainful employment, especially if they were out.

Many worked nights or in sex work, meaning not only were conventional meals not timed well for their life they were financially unattainable.