Name: DINING OUT - First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants
Start: 2025-09-04T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-04T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Woofs Atlanta

DINING OUT - First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants

Award-winning New York Times journalist Erik Piepenburg will discuss his groundbreaking new book "Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants.
Atlanta’s own landmarks anchor this narrative. Iconic hotspots like the home-cooking Midtown diner Silver Grill—opened in 1945 and later immortalized in drag legend Diamond Lil’s chicken-fueled anthem—and the rococo former funeral home that housed The Gallus, a 1970s “hustler brasserie” where patrons enjoyed white-tablecloth suppers upstairs before descending to a cruisy piano-bar basement, all reveal how Atlanta restaurants became sanctuaries, stages, and springboards for Southern queer life.