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Telly Justice, owner of HAGS.

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Telly Justice and her rise to Food & Wine’s Best New Chef

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.

Food

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.

Food

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.

Food

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.

Food

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.

Food

Inside the queer dinner parties popping up across New York City

By Heather Cassell

Tour de Forks guests prepping shrimp.

Food

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.

Food

Food pantries serving queer New Yorkers during the holidays

By Heather Cassell

Attendees dine during Shabbat on Deck.

Food

Uniting young Jewish New Yorkers through queer Shabbat

By Heather Cassell

Runner & Stone booth at Union Square

Food

Queer-owned booths at Union Square help serve holiday feasts

By Heather Cassell

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Food

Italian passion front and center at Ci Siamo

By Heather Cassell

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Food

The Commerce Inn modernizes revolutionary American cuisine

By Heather Cassell

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Food

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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