The danger, to me, is a political movement that opposed our equality long before most Americans had ever heard the word ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

The English language is a funny thing. A word can mean something hundreds of years ago, then it gets twisted into something horrible, only to make a comeback in the modern day. That's basically the TL ...

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 ...

“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 ...

All trauma, all the time. For decades, research into queer life focused solely on discrimination, stress and stigma. Mainstream film and television (when they featured queer characters at all) ...