19 Pride Month gifts that aren’t rainbow-washed
The month of pride does not concern the rainbow of your flow with slogans that no one means or not carrying a sparkling plastic pin made in a factory that actively underestimate its workers. It’s a matter of taste. Bad taste that comes back to radiance. And gifts that speak queer in mastery, not on marketing decks. Whether you buy your best friend, your sneaky link or your beautifully complex self, here are 19 pride gifts that are not tragic.
1. A bumbag (or a version of it)
Because nothing says “I am organized, calculated and armored” stronger than an embellished pocket jostled on the chest.
2. A cigarette box
It seems that it contains cigarettes, but in fact contains limit problems and three insane sketches of a rupture text.
3. Vivienne Westwood Orbe necklace
It is not a phase, it is a strange rite of passage.
4. Micro Gucci Shorts by Paul Mescal
Because thighs are a right, not a privilege.
5. Only together by perfumehead
Smells of queer summer sorrow and foam. Wear it while listening to Sufjan Stevens.
6. Candle scented with Jacob Elordi bath water (Saltburn edition)
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Feels unresolved tension.
7. A Nan Goldin print
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Emotionally destroyed in soft lighting. Just like you.
8. A diptych shampoo
For the softboi in healing. Feels hope and desire.
9. A Polaroid camera
Not all memories are supposed to be clear.
10. A very good fan that opened with strength and fury. Even better if it’s vintage.
Ideal for club outings, shadow and slightly violent flirt.
11. Everything by Jonathan Anderson
No matter what. It is already coded queer.
12. Gauchier en mesh
A dream of trompe l’oeil fever for the fashion and fabulous insecture.
13. Bangisters of red Laetitia
It looks like a trailled candelabra.
14. A silk dress
Clearly not for modest mornings. You don’t wear it, you enter it.
15. A leather harness
For fashion reasons only, Duh.
16. A bottle of fog in hand for post-Rencontre reflection
Clean hands. Dirty thoughts.
17. Margiela replica of perfumes that smell emotional time
Vague, chic and definitely on a boy.
18. A banana -shaped lamp
Constable and in a way romantic.
19. Reading glasses
… Because what is reading? Fundamental.
Read also:
10 pounds of queer romance that deserve a place of space on your shelf
How the marriage of this queer couple next to Lake Vembanad of Kerala made Indian traditions
Your LGBTQ literature guide to read this month of pride
