A banner reading 'We Are Everywhere' at a Gay Pride march on Fifth Avenue in New York City, USA, July 1979. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) In his book released a month ago, What is Queer Food?

John Birdsall’s “What Is Queer Food?” and Erik Piepenburg’s “Dining Out” both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression. By Lukas Volger Lukas Volger is the author ...

Only seven pages in, John Birdsall offers a conclusion to the question that titles his book, “What Is Queer Food?” It’s a subject that has consumed him for decades, as a restaurant cook in the Bay ...

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“What is queer food?” is a question that’s itched at John Birdsall’s mind since the mid-1980s. Back then, Birdsall, a Bay Area native, was in the midst of a series of line cook jobs in restaurant ...

John Birdsall is the author of “What Is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution” and is the recipient of two James Beard Awards for food and culture writing. Standing firmly in the 21st century, ...

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The following is an adapted excerpt from “Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Rebellion,” edited by Riley Clare Valentine, Blu Buchanan, and LGBTQ Nation contributor Zane McNeill. These days, one ...

In 2022, Bon Appétit created a series of stories for a package we named Food Is Queer. Our team wrote about drag brunches, coming out at Panera, and an exciting new wave of trans chefs changing the ...