\u201cI work in high-end gastronomy, so I have to look very professional, very clean,\u201d Andr\u00e1s N\u00e9meth said. Nail polish and piercings are off the table. \u201cYou have to look respectable and normal, which I very much enjoy,\u201d he added. \u201cBut in my free time, I like to live out this creative side of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our paths crossed on a Monday in June in the Castro district of San Francisco, where N\u00e9meth, 21, seemed unsure of which way he was headed. In fact, he was in the city only because of a missed flight connection: What started out as an unplanned layover turned into a decision to stay for the month to experience San Francisco Pride.<\/p>\n
N\u00e9meth was born in Hungary and grew up in Germany, but he spent time all over the continent. His clothes were a representation of his pan-European experience: His trousers were found in Milan, his fishnet top in Strasbourg, France. Of the two rings on his left hand, one was a gift from his younger sister, while the other belonged to his mother. But he didn\u2019t seem bothered by dressing for both roles in his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother was always very liberal, very queer,\u201d he said. \u201cI never had this fight to come out of my shell. I could always be who I wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI work in high-end gastronomy, so I have to look very professional, very clean,\u201d Andr\u00e1s N\u00e9meth said. Nail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[150618,101,8263,103,102,104,106,105,79554],"class_list":["post-371706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-fashion-and-apparel","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-calif","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-vis-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}