
It's no secret that I love New York City (check out my column focused primarily on Manhattan for more on that). This time around, we'll dive into Brooklyn: where I met my wife, started my business, and learned to fall in love with my body thanks to other queer, fat femmes.
Brooklyn is full of incredible food, wonderful entertainment, a whole lot of hard-working people — and it's just over three times the size of Manhattan, with 900,000 more people. Since I could write multiple books with all my favorite places, the following suggestions are just a drop in the bucket, focusing on some standouts from my December visit. I primarily stuck around the Williamsburg area, with a few (really exciting, if I can say so myself) exceptions.