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Members of the Queer Food Foundation at work.

Food

Queer Food Foundation strives to be a lifeline for the LGBTQ food industry

By Brianna Lopez

Astoria Food Pantry’s free store. The mutual aid group has served the community since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Queer-led Astoria Food Pantry thrives three years after pandemic launch

By Heather Cassell

On Oct. 13, Li-Lac Chocolates marked a century of serving customers in New York.

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Li-Lac Chocolates celebrates 100 years in operation

By Gay City News

Customers line up for Bite’s Gay Donut, available Fridays at Smorgasburg World Trade Center, the weekly open-air food market located at the Oculus Plaza on Fulton and Church Streets.

Food

Donuts that dare to show their Pride colors

By Erasmo Guerra

Suzy Wong shares her recipe for prik nam pla, Thai chili fish sauce. As fellow drag artist Pattaya Hart looks on.

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Suzy Wong serves fish sauce realness

By Erasmo Guerra

Patrons discuss Craig Anthony Miller’s (aka CAM) artwork on the wall from their bar stool at Superfine’s sunken bar in September 2022.

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Brooklyn’s queer-owned Superfine restaurant blends art, food, and music

By Heather Cassell

Grotto founder Austa Somvichian-Clausen, left, with her girlfriend, Victoria “Tori” Geddes, right, enjoying cocktails and an intimate moment at the Ludlow House, Grotto’s host, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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Inside the queer dinner parties popping up across New York City

By Heather Cassell

Tour de Forks guests prepping shrimp.

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Lesbian-owned food travel company celebrates 20 years

By Heather Cassell

GMHC staffer Donna Pine, background, and GMHC Director of Nutrition and Meals Grace Holihen, foreground, pack grocery bags for community members.

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Food pantries serving queer New Yorkers during the holidays

By Heather Cassell

Attendees dine during Shabbat on Deck.

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Uniting young Jewish New Yorkers through queer Shabbat

By Heather Cassell

Runner & Stone booth at Union Square

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Queer-owned booths at Union Square help serve holiday feasts

By Heather Cassell

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Italian passion front and center at Ci Siamo

By Heather Cassell

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The Commerce Inn modernizes revolutionary American cuisine

By Heather Cassell

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HAGS will queer NYC’s restaurant scene with radical fine dining

By Heather Cassell

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Travel

7 queer food & wine festivals to attend

By Heather Cassell

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Queer-Owned Restaurant Takes Diners on a Tour of India

By Heather Cassell

More from Around NYC

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Atlantic Terminal rolls out free summer fest to celebrate 20 years in Brooklyn

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Bronx Arts and Science Charter School holds annual Elementary Art Show

Governor Kathy Hochul (sixth from left) and other officals celebrate the completion of $45 million NYS Regional Food Hub in the Bronx on June 17, 2025. Hunts Point-Based Food Hub will improve access to healthy foods for underserved populations. Facility will increase food distribution by 600 %, creating 200 new jobs and will connect upstate farms to downstate markets.

Hochul celebrates completion of $45M food hub in the Bronx

Democratic NYC Mayor candidates Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander

NYC Mayor’s Race: Leading Democratic mayoral candidates hit the trail to trade barbs as primary looms