LGBTQ+ Businesses

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culture

BABE Wine Bar Offers a Queer Wine Oasis in Brooklyn

While wine bars are a dime a dozen in Brooklyn, there isn’t a single one like BABE.

ashni

Jul 30, 2025

culture

BABE Wine Bar Offers a Queer Wine Oasis in Brooklyn

While wine bars are a dime a dozen in Brooklyn, there isn’t a single one like BABE.

ashni

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Jul 30, 2025

a bunch of queers holding The Autostraddle Insider, a new zine

straddleverse

We Made a Queer and Trans Print Magazine You Can Hold in Your Gay Hands!

Introducing: The Autostraddle Insider, a full-color, gorgeous, gay, sexy, smart, funny zine. Here’s how to get it!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Jul 23, 2025

lgbt pride

36 LGBTQ-Owned Businesses Selling LGBT T-Shirts To Support This Pride Season

Wanna spend your Pride cash on original t-shirts from lesbian and queer-owned businesses and LGBTQ+ stores? We’ve got a great list!

Riese

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Jun 9, 2025

collage of items you can buy from queer-owned small businesses

lgbtq+ businesses

100 LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses and Queer Shops To Support This Holiday Season!

With so many LGBTQ+ owned shops out there it’s gonna be a joy to put money back into your community this holiday season!

Riese

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Dec 9, 2024

a collage featuring beer, pool balls, arcades, a neon bar sign, darts, polaroids, and lesbians hanging out

the scene

All 37 Surviving Lesbian Bars In the U.S.

Building on the work of so many queer archivists, writers, and historians, we have created this list, meant to be an ongoing record, of lesbian bars operating in the U.S.…

Riese and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 13, 2024

money + work

These Are the Hot Tips Queer Small Business Owners Swear By

“I’ve seen behind the curtain of businesses I thought were levels above us to discover everyone’s faking it.”

Riese

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Oct 30, 2023

Four models are collaged on top of a black paper and hot pink background. From left to right: Jenny is wearing the cream Peaches Tee in XL and holding a baseball bat. Ki is wearing the black Fisting 101 Tee. Grey is wearing the Caligula Inn Tee in cream size M. Sabine is wearing the charcoal heather Dyke Drama Tee in XL.

lgbtq+ businesses

It’s Our Biggest Sale of the Year! Up to 60% Off All Apparel!

All of your favorites, old and new, on sale like never before!

viv

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Dec 25, 2022

This is a collage of three photos of the model Jenny side by side. On the left, Jenny is wearing the Peaches tee and a blue baseball cap and holding a bat on their shoulder. In the middle, Jenny is wearing the blue Club Soda Tee and styled with a black beanie. On the right they are wearing the Gay Chaos White Long Sleeve Tee with a grey/burgundy flannel on top and a black beanie and tan canvas pants.

lgbtq+ businesses

We’ve Got New Merch and It’s All 20% Off All Weekend Long

Another year around the sun and it’s finally time to stuff our faces then buy a ton of stuff online. Why not check out the Autostraddle Store and get ahead…

viv

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Nov 25, 2022

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BABE Wine Bar Offers a Queer Wine Oasis in Brooklyn

BABE Wine Bar Offers a Queer Wine Oasis in Brooklyn

We Made a Queer and Trans Print Magazine You Can Hold in Your Gay Hands!

36 LGBTQ-Owned Businesses Selling LGBT T-Shirts To Support This Pride Season

100 LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses and Queer Shops To Support This Holiday Season!

All 37 Surviving Lesbian Bars In the U.S.

These Are the Hot Tips Queer Small Business Owners Swear By

It’s Our Biggest Sale of the Year! Up to 60% Off All Apparel!

We’ve Got New Merch and It’s All 20% Off All Weekend Long

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