Gay food

It’s a IYKYK reference to Troye Sivan’s song. 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. “Which is lovely, right?”

For Elias, the term brings back memories of a restaurant she went to in the 1990s in San Francisco’s Castro District, one of the country’s first gay neighborhoods, called Hot N’ Crusty.

But it was because it was being presented to me in the Castro, right?

The recipes, Blake added, “are also totally over the top.” It has a famous recipe for hash brownies and a recipe for fish with three sauces arranged to mimic cubism that Toklas served to Picasso.

Ketchum pointed to Mary Rathbun’s brownies as an example. It’s also our mutual aid bowl, a hot meal that we offer our marginalized guests.

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].

When we talk about gay food, I think we are prioritizing the wisdom of joy over the traditions of fear we have inherited in many cooking settings and in society. 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!

I have compiled 40 recipes from my favorite bloggers. 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.

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. For some, what makes a dish queer is its refusal to adhere to tradition, doing something that challenges diners while still nurturing them.

That’s fun, but that’s not what queer food is.” 

A rainbow cake, Parish added, isn’t inherently more queer than a regular cake created by a queer person. We were enamored with the part of the movie when they stopped at a roadside diner and proceeded to change their clothes –– changing their look to be more ‘business women’-like.

Bursting with are tons of fruit flavor, this colorful popsicle recipe is so easy, kids can even make it themselves!

Easy Rainbow Popsicles