Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.

When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade.

Replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

It's why you lace up at dawn.

Why a little rain doesn't stop you.

Why one run turns into a habit.

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high.

Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com. Music Hello and welcome to Outward Slate's podcast about the importance of eating three square gay meals a day.

And what better place to break our daily bread than at the homosexual diner, the trans coffee

shop, the lesbian joint, and all the other places where our queer ancestors have flirted

and gossiped and broken up and made up and cried on each other's shoulders over pork chops and tempe burgers and a sweet and sour cabbage soup that tastes like home.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a senior writer at Slate, and I love a gay restaurant.

Really, I love a gay anything, but there's something particularly

homie, I think, about a place that serves food and a place where you can sit around a table

and actually hear each other talk. But gay restaurants aren't always easy to identify.

And if you're like me, you probably don't know much about their history. Gay bars

are a much more common cornerstone of queer social life. They're where the parties are and where you'll

almost always find people looking to make friends or hook up. But the LGBTs, we're only human. We need to eat.

And for more than 150 years, we've been opening queer restaurants or commandeering straight ones to have our meals together.

There's a new book coming out at the beginning of Pride Month that fleshes out that history in gorgeous mouth-watering detail. It's called, appropriately enough, dining out,

first dates, defiant nights, and last called disco fries at America's gay restaurants. And the author,

Eric Pippenberg, joins us this week to talk about how gay cafeterias and bistros and lunch counters and fine dining establishments have been essential to queer culture across the country. We'll also talk about what place

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