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Dining Out: Author Event with Erik Piepenburg
Erik Piepenburg has been writing for The New York Times since 2004, covering LGBTQ+ issues, film, theater, television, food and travel. His writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, the Chicago Reader, Out magazine, and other publications. Originally and proudly from Cleveland, he lives with his partner in New York City.
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.
This event is free to attend but we do ask that you RSVP! Prologue Bookshop will be on-site to sell books or, you can pre-order a copy with your ticket!
