Join us for the first QSN Brooklyn of 2024!

Through direct donations of food and clothes, this event will be supporting thousands of migrants here in NYC.

Little Egg providing the soups!

This event has a timeline!

4:30pm Bring your donations of NEW underwear and socks (all sizes) and used coats, winter gear, suitcases and backpacks. Help sort donations.

5:45pm Soup served!

We will also be collecting funds via cash or Venmo to purchase hot meals for folks.

Help our team: On Sunday, Feb 4, we will be driving donations to Floyd Bennet Field temporary shelters. Drivers and Spanish translators needed! If you can drive or translate, please reach out to hq@queersoupnight.com

Join us for the first QSN Oakland of 2024!

Calling all lovers of queer love, joy, and soup to join us for our first QSN DMV fundraiser, featuring Chef Kareem Mr. Bake Queeman, Chef Mykie Moll and Chef Angela Rose dishing out delectable soups and AYA bartenders serving up beautiful bevies at As You Are Bar. 

Suggested soup donation is $10-20. All proceeds will go to local Black-led, abolitionist defense hub, Harriet’s Wildest Dreams. All are welcome, regardless of funds. 

Soup will be first come, first served!

Welcome back to soup season! ALL are welcome to join us as Chef Terence J. Harvey and Slutty Sammys sling soups until they reach the bottom of the pot. Suggested donation is $10-15 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Bring Your Own Spoon!

For the first time ever, proceeds will support Queer Soup Night HQ. Our all-volunteer network of 12 chapters across the country has been operating on a shoestring budget since QSN launched in January, 2017 (seven years ago!). We’re currently in need of funds to support our most basic needs (website domain, software subscriptions, storage and a few other things we’d be very happy to tell you all about!). Thank you for supporting our work so we can keep throwing parties and raising funds for community orgs!

There will be vegan and gf options, of course! Soup is first come, first served.

Join us for an extra queer summer gathering featuring chili and more! Beneficiary org TBA. Save the date! No RSVP required.

Join us in Kingston, NY on July 8 for a gathering of queer food and community. All proceeds benefit Trans Closet of Hudson Valley and all are welcome! Bring cash and a smile. No RSVP required.

For the second year in a row, QSN HQ will be co-hosting Pride Night at Brooklyn Botanic Garden!

Come for the stories, the birding, the thousands of queers. Bring a picnic blanket and pick up a free, super gay snack from Chef Annie Cheng. BBG members can simply login and reserve free tickets. Not a member? See below!

Here’s how to reserve your $10 tickets:

1. Visit this link

2. Enter access code: QSNRY3 in the access code box.

3. The $10 ticket option will appear up top. Reserve up to 4 tickets at this price!

*Note that the total comes to $11.33 per ticket with fees. A limited number of free tickets are available using code QSN57D (first come, first served).

More info is here: https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/members_pride_night_2023

Note that the QSN meet-up will be in the Plant Family Collection (same as last year). A map will be provided upon arrival.

Join us in Poughkeepsie this May. Details coming soon!

The party is back in Cincinnati and we can’t wait to see you. All proceeds benefitting Cincinnati Black Pride. No RSVP required. Just show up and please bring cash for a sliding scale soup donation! 10 chefs! All you can eat soup! Drag! Burlesque! Queer Art! DJs! Raffles!

Join us to raise funds for the Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Resource Center. Eat soup, make a donation, be in community. No RSVP required. Just show up!

QSN will round out soup season with a happy hour hang at Bed Stuy’s queer bar for all, Oddly Enough. More details coming soon.

Hello Salt Lake City…we’re back and benefitting Burning Sissy Valley at a cool new location, The Neighborhood Hive. Join us for soup and community. No tickets required. Sliding scale donations but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Cannot wait!

A very special QSN (to-go!) comes to Philly. Swing by and grab some soup to take with you. Proceeds benefit the Free Grocery Store Pilot from the West Philly Bunny Hop and Free Brunch Program. The space will also feature a free store, some groceries to pick up and of course, queer community. Just show up! Vegan options always available.

We’re back in Oakland and benefitting Queer Expression, a youth-powered community organization bringing creative movement & making to queer/trans folks through workshops and dances.

RSVP not required but suggested (please!) at the following link:

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-soup-is-love-oakland-queer-soup-night-at-korner-kitchen-tickets-523375729897 or bit.ly/qsnoak for short

Soups by the fabulous Ari of Bake Sum, Big Dill Kitchen and mishmish. See you there, friends.

Happy 2023! We’re trying out a new format this January…Lazy Sunday Soup. Each hour we’ll be bringing out a new soup by a different chef. So stroll in whenever, try a new soup, stay a while.

Allstar chef line up featuring Liz Alpern, Renae Wilson, Zoe Adjonyoh and Pri Aguilr. Donations will be collected via cash and venmo but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 100% of proceeds will benefit Anti-Violence Project.

No RSVP required. Just show up and BYOS (bring your own spoon) if you can.

QSN will be serving soup to keep you warm during the annual AIDS Memorial vigil and ceremony in NYC. Join us for hot soup, intergenerational connections, and a collective honoring of so many lives lost. More info to come. Save the date for this meaningful gathering.

QSN PDX is back…in person! Come celebrate soup season with a whole bunch of queers to benefit Wild Diversity. No RSVP necessary. Just show up! Donations encouraged but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Chefs TBA.

Join a queer crew and volunteer at one of QSN’s fave orgs, GLWD. We’ll chop veggies, package up food, hang in NYC’s largest commercial kitchen, and help feed New Yorkers who are homebound. Only 15 spots available so please register below to join. Note: this is in-person in NYC and you will need to create an account below to register.

Register here: https://glwd.volunteerhub.com/vv2/lp/queersoupnight

Come cozy up with us this fall! We'll be gathering for a night of nourishment and fun to support The Sylvia Center, partnering with community-based organizations, schools, and businesses to deliver nutrition-focused culinary programming through NYC and Columbia County, NY.

We'll be serving up lots of soup (yes to vegan and gf options), live music by 2 NOTE Hudson, and awesome queer vibes. There will be non-alcoholic beverages, beer & wine available for purchase. Please bring some cash for food donations (suggested donation $10-20). You can also donate via Venmo.

Consider bringing your own spoon (BYOS) to reduce our environmental impact! Featured chefs TBA!

There will be plenty of indoor and some outdoor seating available, and we encourage you to dress warmly for the weather. This event is ADA accessible.

Free RSVP requested at this link. Thanks for RSVP’'ing!

About The Aviary Kinderhook: The Aviary Kinderhook is a new hospitality space located at The Kinderhook Knitting Mill (KKM) in Columbia County, NY, that seeks to foster community through intersections of food, art and design. Executive Chef Hannah Wong 

We’re back in Brooklyn! AND, for the first time EVER, we’re gonna be slinging soup in the backyard of the one and only Ginger’s Bar! Beneficiary org is Team TLC NYC, an all volunteer crew providing support to asylum seekers and refugees arriving in our City. Soups by the incredibly talented Silvia Barban and Tony Ortiz. Popcorn by QSN vet Libby Willis. Bring cash if you can for donations (suggested $15). Come early. It’s gonna get crazy. No tix or RSVP required. First come, first served. Can’t wait to see you cuties there!

Join the Hudson Valley queer community for a gorgeous evening hosted by (and supporting) the Poughkeepsie Farm Project! All are welcome.

Please bring some cash for food donations (suggested donation $10—$20). Seating will be available at picnic tables, and we also encourage you to bring a blanket to hang in PFP's beautiful garden!

Poughkeepsie Farm Project's mission is to cultivate local leadership in sustainable farming, food access and education, and foster an inclusive, welcoming community for everyone.

Please RSVP at qsnpk.eventbrite.com

QSN + Bunnyhop are back at the magical outdoor venue, Pentridge Station! We’ll be serving up great food (vegan and gf options available, as always), launching a new community fridge and a Zine that will serve as a resource for community members to get involved in mutual aid projects. All proceeds go to Coalition to Save the UC Townhomes. Suggested donation $20 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. No need to RSVP. Just show up!

Hey Oakland…we are back! Join us on Sunday, August 7 at a new venue, The Rare Barrel!

Benefitting Flying Over Walls and featuring chefs: Booli Huerta, Truc Nguyen, Scheherazade Shafigh

Vegan options! Sliding scale donations encouraged but absolutely no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

This event will be outdoors.

PLEASE RSVP AT THIS LINK. IT’S FREE TO RSVP.

Celebrate Pride with us at Brooklyn Botanic Garden! Members, guests and friends are invited for an evening of queer community featuring Drag Story Hour, NYC Queer Birders and Dyke Beer, all co-hosted by Queer Soup Night. Be sure to BYO picnic and blanket- we’ll be hanging in the Plant Family Collection all evening.*

For BBG members, reserve free tickets or get them at the door day-of. Members can also buy up to 4 tickets for friends ($10 each), and use guest passes if you have them.

Not a member? Not a problem. $10 tickets for non-members are available at this link. Simply enter the code QSNX9E in the "access code" box and click "get tickets". An option for $10 tickets will appear!

BBG has generously offered a batch of free tickets as well. Interested? Please fill out this form for free tickets. No questions asked.

*Note that we won’t be serving food ourselves but food will be available for purchase at the gardens. Bringing your own blankets and basket of treats is encouraged!

QSN Salt Lake City will be live on June 12, 5-7 pm. The event proceeds will be in support of The Food Justice Coalition and the chef will be Mas Gorditas.

More details to be announced soon!

QSN Western Mass will be at the Ashfield Lake House on Sunday, May 1 from 5:30-7:30.

The chef-owner of the Lake House, Dre Rawlings and Chef Maggie Zaccara of Hope & Olive in Greenfield, MA will be making a soup!

Dre will have some of her cool, natural rosés for sale by the glass for those who partake. The event will take place on the restaurant's deck (with the option to meander onto the "beach"). In the event of inclement weather, we’ll move the event inside.

Proceeds will go to Translate Gender, a collective based, consensus run, non profit in Northampton, MA that works to generate community accountability for individuals to self determine their own gender and gender expressions.