Lgbtq barbque

Music – Food – Artists & Games!

Join us for this free family block party! This is YOUR Free Lgbtq+ fest event for 2024! Come show your colors while we dance, sing and play games. Love music from DJ's and drag performers. Cold treats and hot eats! Crafters, vendors and more!

This event will be FREE but will require free tickets available only from this page Admission will be $10 at the gate on the evening of the event.

It’s unlikely that two LGBTQ people will give you the same definition of “queer food.” 

The term has become increasingly popular with the rise of gender non-conforming restaurants, including The Ruby Fruit, a restaurant and wine bar for the “sapphically inclined” in Los Angeles, and HAGS, a fine dining restaurant “by queer people for all people” in New York City. Specific foods and drinks have also been claimed by or marketed to the LGBTQ group, such as vodka sodas and sourdough bread.

For some, queer food is simply food made by gender non-conforming people. Others say it’s about sharing food in queer community, while there are those who accept it should include serving marginalized people who hold been excluded from pleasant dining spaces. 

So what is queer food, aside from a term slowly gaining traction in certain corners of the LGBTQ community? The question was the subject of the Homosexual Food Conference at Boston University in April, with workshops such as “Queer Food and Fundraising as Resistance” and “Nonbinary Botany: Cultivating Pollinator Community Workshop.” 

One of the founders of the conference, Megan Elias, the director of the un