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What is queer food? : how we served a revolution

What is queer food? : how we served a revolution

Book 2025

In What Is Queer Food?, author John Birdsall explores the historical and cultural connections between queer identity and food in the United States. Drawing on examples from the early 20th century through the LGBTQ civil rights movement and the AIDS crisis, the book examines how food has served as a means of expression, resistance, and community-building for queer individuals. Through biographical portraits of figures such as James Baldwin, Alice...