What’s queer about veganism?

C Lou Hamilton
5 min readFeb 3, 2020

As we say goodbye to Veganuary and hello to LGBT+ History Month, it seems a good time to ask: is there anything particularly queer about doing veganism?

The very fact that veganism and LGBT+ history both have a whole month dedicated to them in the UK — albeit with decidedly different backgrounds and aims — suggests that what were until recently considered fringe phenomena are becoming increasingly normalised.

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C Lou Hamilton

Author of VEGANISM, SEX AND POLITICS (2019), editor, translator, animal lover, passionate vegan, queer fem/inist 🍏 peninfist.substack.com