Setting the Table is a digital archive for LGBTQ+ stories created by Nate Nocete, Gummy Nichols, Kevin She, and is powered by Collective, the community app for LGBTQ+ people.

This website reimagines the dinner table as a place of queer gathering and belonging and is the digital counterpart to the physical installation at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City.

For many queer people, dinner tables have been spaces of tension—coming out between bites, dodging questions, or being excluded entirely. Here, the table shifts from discomfort to joy, self-expression, and chosen family. This isn't just a website, or a kitchen table — it's a love letter to queer community, where everyone belongs, and no one has to ask to pass the salt.

We hope you bring your stories to the table.