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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

homo for the holigays sale - a collection of autostraddle models wearing autostraddle tees

straddleverse

25% Off The World’s Best Gay Gear at the Autostraddle Store Starts NOW

It’s here and queer and only comes once a year: it’s the annual HOMO FOR THE HOLIDAYS sale! Now through Small Business Saturday and concluding on Cyber Monday.

Sarah

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Nov 26, 2021

house & garden

Spaces & Places: A Roundup of 30 Queer-Owned Houseware Shops

Whether you’re in the market for furniture, art, candles, planters, kitchenware, organizers, textiles, or little tchotchkes, these queer-owned shops have got you covered.

meg

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Jul 15, 2021

Feature image collage showing some of the items mentioned in this post.

lgbt pride

11 Places to Buy Merch Supporting Queer and Trans BIPOC People Instead of Corporate Greed

Here are 11 collections directly supporting LGBTQ BIPOC creators and organizations!

KaeLyn

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Jun 25, 2021

A woman with curly hair in a dark bar pours a draft from a spigot.

society + culture

The Lesbian Bar Project Raises Over $100,000 to Protect 15 of Our Last Lesbian Bars

Lesbian bars across the country are closing at an alarming rate. The filmmakers and activists of the Lesbian Bar Project teamed up with Jägermeister to save the fifteen that remain.

Lindsay Lee Wallace

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Dec 23, 2020

A collage of all the new Autostraddle holigay merch, including tees, a sweatshirt, a magnetic poetry kit, 11 new stickers, five face masks.

lgbtq+ businesses

NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees! Sweatshirts! Stickers! Face Masks! QUEER! MAGNETIC! POETRY!

Buy something for you, your pod friends, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, your mom who’s secretly gay, your best friend who you’re secretly gay for, and your polycule.

Sarah

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Dec 1, 2020

A range of black matte sex toys, from a wand vibrator to a flogger to a long penetrative wand, are seen poking out of a brown paper shopping bag.

love + sex

6 Queer-Owned Sex Shops You’ll Vibe With

As we stock up on toys and lube for winter, we can put our queer money back into queer-owned sex shops!

Archie

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Oct 13, 2020

A wide angle photo of the inside of Bluestockings bookstore and activist center.

money + work

Can Queer Businesses Survive COVID-19? Here’s How Some Are Trying

With gay bars all but indefinitely closed, and other businesses slowly reopening, how are queer businesses surviving & supporting their community amidst a pandemic?

Sloane Holzer

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Jul 21, 2020

lgbtq+ businesses

Small Queer Businesses To Support During COVID-19

We’re not suggesting that if you’d just shop queer, all will well, but if you’re burning some cash on retail therapy anyway, you might as well support queer folks running…

the team

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Apr 28, 2020

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LGBTQ+ Businesses

BABE Wine Bar Offers a Queer Wine Oasis in Brooklyn

25% Off The World’s Best Gay Gear at the Autostraddle Store Starts NOW

Spaces & Places: A Roundup of 30 Queer-Owned Houseware Shops

11 Places to Buy Merch Supporting Queer and Trans BIPOC People Instead of Corporate Greed

The Lesbian Bar Project Raises Over $100,000 to Protect 15 of Our Last Lesbian Bars

NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees! Sweatshirts! Stickers! Face Masks! QUEER! MAGNETIC! POETRY!

6 Queer-Owned Sex Shops You’ll Vibe With

Can Queer Businesses Survive COVID-19? Here’s How Some Are Trying

Small Queer Businesses To Support During COVID-19

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