To celebrate the October 2025 release of our book Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food with Recipes (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025) and the May 1-3, 2026 conference, we will be hosting a series of in-person and online events about queer food. Please stay posted as more events will be posted within the coming months!
2025
- June 26, 2025: in collaboration with the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), 6-9 PM ET (ticketed, in-person event): get tickets here!
Queers at the Table: Coming Together will feature a panel with queer food historians Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum, joined by writers, artists, activists, and food industry professionals Isabel Barbosa, Ericka Mabrie, and Rani Som. We’ll be showcasing and celebrating queer forms in its multiplicity, along with food, drinks, and a lively panel. Ticket includes access to Flavor: The World to Your Brain from 6 to 7 PM, bites made by Pri Aguilar, and drinks.
- September 9, 2025: Queers at the Table: Eating, Talking, and Writing, in collaboration with Oxford Food Symposium (free, virtual event)
- September 23, 2025: Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy, in collaboration with Queer & Joyful Worldmaking Lab and Queer Joy Lab, 6:00-7:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
- September 30, 2025: New Books in Queer Food, in collaboration with Queer History Month McGill, 6:00-7:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
- October 9, 2025: Book Launch Party Canada: Bringing Queers to the Table, in collaboration with L'Eugelionne Feminist Bookstore in Montreal, 6:00-8:00 PM ET (free, in-person event)
- November 2, 2025: Cooking the Queers at the Table Book with the Drawn and Quarterly Cookbook Club, in collaboration with Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore in Montreal (free, in-person event)
- November 5, 2025: Book Launch Party USA: Queers at the Table, in collaboration with All She Wrote Books of Somerville, Massachusetts, 6:30- 8:00 PM ET (free, in-person event)
- November 7, 2025: Queers at the Table in NYC! in collaboration with Archestratus Bookstore of Brooklyn, NY (free, in-person event)
- November 9, 2025: Queer Soup Night in Brooklyn
- December 1, 2025: Queer Food and HIV/AIDS: A World AIDS Day Event in collaboration with AIDS Community Care Montreal, 12:00-1:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
2026
- January 6, 2026: in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom
- February 9, 2026: Comics Arts on Queer Food, in collaboration with Prism Comics: the non-profit LGBTQIA+ Comics Organization, 6:00-7:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
- February 10, 2026: Queer Food All Year, in collaboration with James Beard Foundation and Queer Food Foundation, 2 PM (free, virtual event)
- April 11, 2026: Vernissage for the Montréal Queer Food and Drink History Exhibit at the Archives gaies du Québec (free, in person at the AGQ)
- May 1-3, 2026: Queer Food Conference!
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These past events accompanied the first edition of the Queer Food Conference on April 27-April 28, 2024.
On March 13, 2024 we partnered with the Oxford Food Symposium's Kitchen Table Series. Sign up to join us at this free, virtual event: https://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/event/kitchen-table-mar-2024
After the conference activities wrapped up on the Saturday evening of the 2024 conference, participants could us at an after hours, A Queer Wine Night Out, curated by Marie-Louise Friedland. The event was in-person only at Wild Child in Somerville and requires separate 10$ registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-food-conference-mixer-tickets-830580607957?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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After the 2024 conference wrapped up on Sunday evening, participants had dinner at the High Street Hall with the Big Queer Food Fest!
That event required a separate ticket. https://bigqueerfoodfest.com/pages/boston
Out and proud chefs and brands from across New England and beyond are serving up a delicious array of bites and cocktails. Music and entertainment will keep the party going all evening long! This evening coincides with the end of the first-ever Queer Food Conference, creating a powerful synergy between food, celebration, and education.
Chefs include Tiffani Fasion, Kareem Queeman, Karen Akunowicsz, Tatiana Rosana, Robert Gonzalez, Michele Ragussis, and more!
