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What is Queer Food?

2025/6/13
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Alexis Madrigal
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John Birdsall
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Alexis Madrigal: 我的书探讨了酷儿自由的谱系，通过烹饪和友谊追溯了一个世纪。它探讨了隐藏的折磨和启示的狂喜，以及真理的回报。旧金山的街道和小餐馆是社区形成过程中的主要角色。 John Birdsall: 我认为酷儿食物是一种文化，而不是一种烹饪。食物的酷儿性可以通过意图、背景和颠覆传统的性别角色来体现。在20世纪，酷儿人士开始利用食物来宣扬身份，对抗歧视，并将某些食物视为自己的。在石墙事件之后，食物开始公开地宣扬其酷儿性，并成为酷儿身份和社区形成的重要组成部分。我受到在Lucky Peach发表的文章的驱动，希望照亮这个被抹去的世界，并有责任拼凑起这个被文化和社会抹去的世界。我希望通过食物来表达酷儿身份，并为那些无法公开表达自己的人们提供支持。

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John Birdsall's childhood fascination with a brioche in a cookbook sparked an early awareness of queer identity. His uncles, Pat and Lou, provided a glimpse into a joyful queer world that was both enchanting and fragile, shaping his desire to illuminate similar experiences in his book, "What is Queer Food?"
  • John Birdsall's early awareness of his queer identity was influenced by a picture of a brioche in a cookbook.
  • His uncles, Pat and Lou, represented a joyful queer world.
  • The death of Uncle Pat highlighted the fragility of this world.
  • This experience drove Birdsall to document and illuminate similar experiences.

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As a food writer and cook himself, John Birdsall often wondered whether there was such a thing as “queer food.” Was it rainbow cupcakes? Quiche? Unicorn frappucinos? In his new book, “What is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution” Birdsall examines the complex story of how, through times of fear and persecution, queer people used food to express joy and build community.

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**John Birdsall, **author "What is Queer Food?: How We Started a Revolution"

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