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Queer Table

Get to know the businesses rethinking queer hospitality and community for a new generation.

The Inherent Queerness of Cheese

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The Expansive Evolution of the Queer Cookbook

If Alice B. Toklas’s "Cook Book" and "The Queer Cookbook" represent two ends of the spectrum for how queerness once existed in cookbooks, today’s cookbooks take advantage of the vast middle ground

How the Big Queer Food Fest Was Built

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How the Queers Stole Billiards

What Are We Wearing to the Gayborhood Now, Philly?

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Making Room for Trans and Nonbinary Chicagoans

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An Acquired Taste

After going on hormone replacement therapies, my taste began to change — but that effect wasn’t purely biological

How the Queers Stole Billiards

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Queen of the Bar

Everyone knows drag queens are multi-hyphenates. For Trixie Mattel and others, that includes bar ownership.

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How Dreamland Built Seattle’s Most Decadent Drag Brunch

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Literally the Gayest Dish on the Menu

Ten queer bars and restaurants on what makes their food like, totally gay

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Nourishing Queer Hospitality

How centering queer values can examine what hospitality could really mean

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Queering the Room

The rising popularity and visibility of LGBTQ pop-ups and parties may seem new, but queer people have always found each other everywhere, discretely or otherwise

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The Food That Makes You Gay

In every queerphobic stereotype, what and how we eat is a source of fear. But with an open mind, food might just become a liberating source of power.

How Queer Restaurants Keep Their Money In Their Community

For restaurants like Ursula and Provincetown Brewing, doing business means supporting fellow queer service workers and vendors

How Drag Queens Use Cookbooks To Flip Femininity

The Queens Are All Right

Despite a wave of anti-drag legislation across the country, the show goes on for performers at Texas’s legendary Rose Room

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Gay Bars Aren’t Disappearing; They’re Changing

In ‘Who Needs Gay Bars?,’ Greggor Mattson explores the past, current, and future of America’s queer spaces

‘If You Took the Drag Away, Then It’s Just Another Boring Bar’

A vague, anti-drag bill in Tennessee has bar and restaurant owners worried for their future

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Meet the Champagne-Fueled Queer Party Taking Over Portland Bars

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When I Feel Unmoored by Life, I Always Find My Way Back to Either/Or

Amid harrowing political moments and questions of identity, queer spaces are a grounding balm

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A Bona Nosh

Why Polari, Britain’s lost gay language, employs so many food words for subversive concepts

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How Queer Chefs Are Reclaiming Bottom Food

The idea that bottoms need to adjust their food choices for a cleaner sexual experience is pervasive. Queer food personalities and chefs are pushing back.

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Two Groups in Oklahoma Are Developing a Blueprint for Successful Queer-Owned Restaurants

Block by block, 84 Hospitality and Humankind Hospitality built a queer-friendly community in a state that consistently challenges LGBTQ rights

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New Portland LGBTQ Bar Stands Proud on Old Town’s Bro-iest Block

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Downtown’s Iconic 24-Hour Diner, the Roxy, Will Close Permanently This Month

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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS

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The “Goth Baker” Who Found Her Calling for Surrealist Cakes

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How a New Orleans Pastry Chef Found Her Calling for Surrealist Cakes

Baker Bronwen Wyatt emerged as a trendsetter during the pandemic, and found a community of queer-owned businesses along the way

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Dallas’s Gayborhood Is Making a Post-Pandemic Comeback. Many LGBT People Still Don’t Feel Welcome.

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Jeremy Salamon Is Opening a Restaurant Honoring All the Women That Inspired Him

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How Chef Deborah VanTrece Honors the History of Soul Food at Her Atlanta Restaurant