Gay food

It’s an unfussy, fully satisfying drunk snack that I think represents the good time vibes at the Roob. If that wasn’t enough, they’re gluten-free, nut free, egg free, and easily vegan!

Rainbow Doughnuts

Rainbow Salad

This scrumptious rainbow salad with a Chinese-inspired dressing will have you eating the rainbow!

“It’s focused on those voices and those individuals who transformed cookbooks, for instance, transformed restaurant spaces, transformed how queer people could be visible in public spaces.”

Birdsall cited James Baldwin as one such transformational figure. I mean, anyone can drink it anytime and it’s classy AF, but to have ‘just half’ of one is to be aware that you’ve got business to attend to.

We list it with our desserts and it’s a pretty popular menu item: A guest asks us or shares something that’s been going on for them in the love department and then we give them our best love advice. They are all easy to make and taste delicious.

Enjoy the recipes, enjoy Pride, and celebrate everyone for being exactly who they are!

For VIP guests (or GOATs as we like to call them), we like to dress her up in hot dog holders made by an artist we love, Cocodrila from Chile. My wife and I even planned our wedding to take place the Saturday before Easter so we could all celebrate by going to the parade the next day. If Hot N’ Crusty had been out by the baseball stadium, it would have had a different feel to it, a different meaning.” 

What queer food means for Elias “is circumstantial,” she said, “and it’s up for conversation.”

NBC News asked a variety of LGBTQ academics, chefs and foodies across the country what queer food means to them.

This quick and easy pancake recipe uses standard pantry ingredients and rainbow sprinkles to make an unforgettable breakfast.

Homemade Funfetti Pancakes

Rainbow Doughnuts

Rainbow colors in every bite topped with chocolate ganache icing and nonpareils make these Rainbow Donuts extra magical.

The choice to make it a cup of soup and a half of a Sazerac was kind of a nod toward the no nonsense of a business lady on the go.

Does it have roots in queer history? They walk in and ask the lady working the diner if they have a ‘business woman special’ — it’s a gag — but for us it was like, look at these women walking in so confidently as ‘business women,’ asking for a business woman special. That makes it hard to narrow down.

“I was like, ‘That’s gay food,’” Elias recalled.

“If the person that curated it, their hands and their energy and their community building, is queer, then it’s queer food,” she said.

John Birdsall

Award-winning food and culture writer

John Birdsall started writing about queer food when “nobody I knew or read remotely talked about queer food,” he said.

Though the definition of the term can vary widely, they all agreed that queer food in any form requires one nonnegotiable ingredient: community. And during that time we were watching Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion. This colorful salad is perfectly balanced with sweet vs. Our laksa starts with a 15-ingredient rempah [spice paste] which gets fried in coconut fat, and an aromatic stock.

The group has 13 active chapters across the U.S. that Alpern said are guided by the importance of connecting with local queer communities and the collective power of those communities, as Queer Soup Nights raise money for local nonprofit organizations.

“In my heart, for me, queer food is food eaten and enjoyed and produced in queer community,” she said.

The just-strong enough wobble of aspic holding together a terrine of head cheese is my poetic resistance against the homogenized nature of our country’s greater food culture, which parallels the political ambience of misogyny and bodily fear, and that, to me, is gay as hell.” — Shaina Loew-Banayan, chef and owner of Cafe Mutton, Hudson, New York

“I think the gayest item on our menu is our raspberry jam-filled Berliner [doughnut].

Besides the name being a nod to maybe the sexiest music video to exist, it also supports Supergay Vodka out of New York. On the menu at Lion Dance Cafe, we feature laksa, a crowd favorite since our early pop-up days.

Also, it’s glittery! (Covid got in the way, but you get the idea.) I think my Easter cake is a little demented and a little strange, and that’s what makes it queer for me — a traditional, hyper-feminine bake associated with a religious holiday, but done with a campy, fey twist.