Interested in learning more about Montreal's 2SLGBTQ+ Food and Drink History? Check out these resources, organized by category.
This list is not comprehensive, but serves as an appetizer!
Queer food (general)
Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes!), edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025)
What is Queer Food? by John Birdsall (Norton, 2025)
Lustful Appetites by Rachel Hope Cleves (2025)
Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot by Kyla Wazana Tompkins (2024)
Queering Nutrition and Dietetics: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art, edited by Phillip Joy and Megan Aston (2022)
Queer restaurants
Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses by Alex D. Ketchum (Concordia University Press, 2022), open access/ free to read lin https://press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ingredients-for-revolution (about lesbian and queer women's feminist restaurants)
Dining Out by Erik Piepenburg (Grand Central, 2025)
Queer bars
Montreal:
"Remembering Lesbian Bars: Montreal 1955-1975" by Line Chamberland, Journal of Homosexuality (2010).
“Sex Garage: Unspooling Narratives, Rethinking Collectivities” by Jason B. Crawford and Karen Herland, Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Volume 48, Number 1. Winter 2014. pp. 106-131.
"Sky’s the Limit: The Operations, Renovations and Implications of a Montréal Gay Bar," by James Allan. Master's thesis. McGill University. 1997.
General:
Who Needs Gay Bars? by Greggor Mattson (2024)
Moby Dyke by Krysta Burton (2023)
Queer Montreal
Archives Lesbiennes : tomes 1 et 2 (2023)
"Gone ‘underground’? Lesbian visibility and the consolidation of queer space in Montréal" by Julie Podmore (Social & Cultural Geography 7.4: 595-625, 2006.)
"Homonormative architecture & queer space: The Evolution of gay bars and clubs in Montréal" by Olivier Vallerand (2010).
Sortir de l’ombre: histoires des communautés lesbienne et gaie de Montréal by Irène Demczuk and Frank W. Remiggi, éds (VLB Éditeur, 1998).
"Negotiating Everyday Spaces, Making Places: Queer & Trans* Youth in Montréal," by Julia De Montigny. Master’s thesis. Concordia University. 2013.
"La scène travestie qui est à l’origine du punk à Montréal" by Félix B. Desfossés for Vice, October 23, 2017.
"La contestation des espaces gais au centre-ville de Montréal depuis 1950," by Jocelyn M. Guindon. PhD thesis. McGill. 2001.
"A Sense of Belonging: Pre-liberation Space, Symbolics, and Leadership in Gay Montreal" by Ross Higgins. PhD thesis. McGill University. 1997.
"Le Village gai de Montréal: Un territoire d’appartenance en voie de disparition?" by Philippe Lecavalier. Master's thesis. Université du Québec à Montréal. 2018.
“Lesbians in the Crowd: Gender, sexuality and visibility along Montréal's Boul. St-Laurent,” by Julie Podmore. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 8:4 (2001): 333-355. DOI: 10.1080/09663690120111591
“Queering Discourses of Urban Decline: Representing Montréal’s Post-World War II ‘Lower Main’.” by Julie Podmore. Historical Geography, Vol. 43 (2015).
"Conserver et transmettre les mémoires: l'histoire des archives Traces lebsbiennes de Montréal (1983-1994) by Fallon Rouillier, MA Thesis, UQAM 2025, https://archipel.uqam.ca/18928/1/M19118.pdf
Queer Canada
Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada by Craig Jennex and Nisha Eswaran (2020)
Before the Parade: A History of Halifax’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972–1992 by Rebecca Rose (2019)
Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 by Valerie Korinek (2018)
""The Place We've Always Wanted to Go But Never Could Find": Finding Woman Space in Feminist Restaurants and Cafés in Ontario 1974–1982." by Alex Ketchum, Feminist Studies 44, no. 1 (2018): 126-152.
"Rethinking Class in Lesbian Bar Culture: Living" The Gay Life" in Toronto, 1955-1965" by El Chenier, Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies (2022): 281.
"The House that Jill built: Lesbian feminist organizing in Toronto, 1976–1980." by Becki Ross, Feminist Review, pp. 75-91. Routledge, 2005.
Queer space (general)
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas (2025)
Queer New York by J.J. Gieseking (2020)
Queers in Space (anthology), edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (1997)
Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism by Finn Enke (2007)