This article is so completely insane, I had no idea to which category it properly belonged. But here we are.
What is queer food? We asked LGBTQ foodies and chefs to define it
Story by Jo Yurcaba
NBC via MSN
June 29, 2024
It’s unlikely that two LGBTQ people will give you the same definition of “queer food.”
The term has become increasingly popular with the rise of queer restaurants, including The Ruby Fruit, a restaurant and wine bar for the “sapphically inclined” in Los Angeles, and HAGS, a fine dining restaurant “by queer people for all people” in New York City. Specific foods and drinks have also been claimed by or marketed to the LGBTQ community, such as vodka sodas and sourdough bread.
For some, queer food is simply food made by queer people. Others say it’s about sharing food in queer community, while there are those who believe it should include serving marginalized people who have been excluded from fine dining spaces.
So what is queer food, aside from a term slowly gaining traction in certain corners of the LGBTQ community? The question was the subject of the Queer Food Conference at Boston University in April, with workshops such as “Queer Food and Fundraising as Resistance” and “Nonbinary Botany: Cultivating Pollinator Community Workshop.” ...
“If the person that curated it, their hands and their energy and their community building, is queer, then it’s queer food,” she said. ...
How dare they co-opt sourdough bread?
As near as I can tell from the article, queer food has something to do with hashish brownies,
as long as they were made by a homosexual. Whatever. If queer hands "curated" (created?) it, I'd like to make sure those hands were thoroughly washed first, that's all.
I would have thought sausages were a substantial subset of the genre, though.
