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Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants
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As gay restaurants--rare spaces of safety and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community-- evolve and chart new futures, New York Times journalist Erik Piepenburg takes readers to Progressive Era Automats, lesbian separatist eateries, Wisconsin sports bars, pioneering drag brunches, and his own beloved diners. It's a culinary tour full of joy, sex, sorrow, activism and nostalgia. Dining Out explores how gay people came of age, came out, and fought for their rights not just in gay bars or the streets, but in restaurants, from cruisy urban cafeterias of the 1920s to mom-and-pop diners that fed the Stonewall generation to the intersectional hotspots of the early 21st century. Using archival material, original reporting and interviews, and first-person accounts, Erik Piepenburg explores how LGBTQ restaurants shaped, and continue to shape, generations of gay Americans. Through the eyes of a reporter and the stomach of a hungry gay man, Dining Out examines the rise, impact and legacies of the nation's gay restaurants past, present, and future, connecting meals with memories. Hamburger Mary's, Florent, a suburban Denny's queered by Piepenburg explores how these and many other gay restaurants, coffee shops, diners and unconventional eateries have charted queer placemaking and changed the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement for the better.
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"Any topical survey will wrestle with the subjective nature of queer belonging, but in Dining Out, Piepenburg's rigorous research and sensitive reporting are vital to the book's impact ..."
"Though the question of 'what makes a gay restaurant?' remains fairly subjective, one thing is for sure: a gay restaurant is a place you want to be."
"The approach in Dining Out succeeds in its matter-of-factness ..."
"Always affable, Piepenburg elaborates on the differences between the experience at a gay bar versus one at a gay restaurant, where sharing plates, quality eye-contact communication, and personal storytelling become part of the vibe."
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