Join us for a launch event with critically acclaimed writer,
 Erik Piepenburg 
discussing his debut book 
Dining Out
.
 
Joining Erik in conversation is the deputy editor of the 
New York Times
 Opinion section 
Patrick Healy
. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
Can’t make the event?
 
Purchase a signed copy of 
Dining Out 
here
.
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ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by 5/19 to request.
Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.
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As gay restaurants evolve and chart new futures, 
New York Times
 journalist Erik Piepenburg takes readers on a tour of American gay dining, with stops at 1930s Automats, lesbian bistros, Wisconsin sports bars, pioneering drag brunches, and other restaurant destinations, including his own beloved diners. It's a trip that's 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. Hamburger Mary’s, Florent, a suburban Denny’s queered by kids: Piepenburg explores how these and many other gay restaurants, coffee shops, diners and unconventional eateries connected meals with memories and changed the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement for the better.
Photo credit: Peter Larson
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.
Photo credit: 
New York Times
Patrick
 
Healy
 is the deputy editor of the 
N
ew York Times
 Opinion section, where he works with the columnists, the editorial board, the Audio team and the guest essay editors on a wide range of issues and ideas, in particular politics and government. Before joining Opinion in May 2021, Patrick worked in the 
Times 
newsroom for 16 years, serving as Politics editor during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the 2018 congressional midterm elections, and as a deputy Culture editor. As a reporter at the 
Times 
from 2005 to 2016, Patrick was nationalpolitical correspondent covering the 2016 presidential election, helping lead the team of reporters assigned to that race; he also covered Hillary Clinton's campaign in the 2008 race and, in 2004, covered John Kerry for the 
Boston Globe
. From 2009 to 2014 Patrick was the 
Times 
theater reporter. Before coming to the 
Times
, he was a reporter for the 
Boston Globe 
from 2000 through 2004, covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and higher education in Boston and New England. Patrick was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for 
Beat Reporting
, for his higher education coverage at the 
Globe
. He received The Livingston Award in 2001 for his 
Globe 
series on Harvard honors and grade inflation, as well as prizes for his coverage of student suicide at M.I.T. From 1994 until 2000, Patrick worked as a reporter and editor at 
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
He graduated from Tufts University and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts. He and his husband, Ray Delgado, live in Manhattan.
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