Perfect for the reader who has zero time for interruptions and infinite time for spicy plots. These “Sorry, I’m Busy Reading Smut” socks are cosy, cheeky, and ideal for anyone whose TBR pile is 90% filth and 10% denial. Ladies UK sizes 4–8 1 pair of cotton-rich sass Soft, stretchy, and ideal for dramatic page-turning Packaging dimensions: 23 × 8.5 × 1.5 cm Fibre blend: 75% Cotton, 24% Polyamide, 1% Elastane Slip them on, grab your favourite steamy read, and let your socks deliver the message so you don’t have to.

Manchester

Queer Lit

Sorry, I'm Busy Reading Smut Socks

Perfect for anyone who loves cosy toes, cute cats, and humour that’s just a tiny bit naughty. These “Just A Little Wet Pussy” socks feature a drenched-but-dignified kitty who’s clearly having a worse hair day than you — ideal for adding a splash of sass to your sock drawer. Ladies UK sizes 4–8 1 pair of cotton-rich mischief Soft, stretchy, and guaranteed to cause giggles Packaging dimensions: 23 × 8.5 × 1.5 cm Fibre blend: 75% Cotton, 24% Polyamide, 1% Elastane Slip them on and let your feet deliver purr-fect comedy with every step.

Just A Little Wet Pussy Socks

When you need to keep dry at a festival or pride parade, but a plain poncho just won't do! Let's get smashed! Made of waterproof material (or it would be rather useless, wouldn't it!)

Festival Glitter is a shop in Manchester. Located at Afflecks, 52 Church Street, Manchester M4 1PW, UK.

Festival Glitter

Festival Poncho - Avocado

These socks are perfect for fans of horror and classic movies. Wear your favourite characters on your feet. Made of a cotton blend. These are gender neutral socks, in one adult size, to fit feet: UK Size - 5.5 to 9.5 EU Size - 39-44

Horror & Movie Socks - Wonder Woman (One Size Gender Neutral)

Horror & Movie Socks - Scream Ghostface (One Size Gender Neutral)

Horror & Movie Socks - The Grinch Style 2 (One Size Gender Neutral)

Gay Pride Shop is a shop in Manchester. Located at Second Floor, Afflecks 52 Church St, Manchester M4 1PW, UK.

Gay Pride Shop

Horror & Movie Socks - Jack Skellngton Candy Canes (One Size Gender Neutral)

Perform at your peak while keeping your feet dry with our breathable high-tech fiber. Our rainbow pride striping provides additional arch support. Expect them to fit size 8-11 Our anklets are made of 56% Olefin, 31% Polyester, 9% Spandex, and 4% Nylon. Our socks are proudly made in a small town in the USA.

Athletic Shorty Rainbow Socks (Size 8-11)

A 25mm high gloss, flat pin badge of the Trans Ally Flag. It has a safety version of the pin on the badge, which prevents the pin from coming loose.

Trans Ally Flag Small Pin Badge

Wear your pride on your sleeve—literally! This vibrant pink triangle enamel pin is a bold statement piece that celebrates queer history and contemporary identity. Perfect for jackets, bags, or anywhere you want to spark a conversation, this durable pin combines retro charm with modern meaning. A small accessory with a mighty message.

Pink Triangle Enamel Pin

Slip this delightful enamel pin onto your collection and celebrate love in its simplest form. Shaped like a closed book emblazoned with "You Are Safe With Me," it features a stunning blend of trans pride and rainbow flag colours that pop with personality. Whether you're decorating your jacket, backpack, or favourite tote, this cheerful pin is your wearable reminder that safety, acceptance, and joy come in every colour of the spectrum. A perfect little badge of belonging.

You Are Safe With Me Enamel Pin

Celebrate your scaly, fabulous self with this vibrant Trans Lizard Enamel Pin. Featuring a cheeky lizard sporting trans pride colours, this quirky accessory is perfect for pinning to your jacket, bag, or anywhere you want to show your true colours. Durable enamel construction with a secure butterfly clasp keeps your statement piece exactly where you want it. A fun way to express identity and spread joy wherever you go.

Trans Lizard Enamel Pin

Spark conversations and laughs with this cheeky enamel pin featuring a hilariously shocked cat and the bold question "Lesbian eat what?" Perfect for pinning to your jacket, bag, or anywhere you want to add a splash of queer humour. This vibrant metal pin celebrates LGBTQ+ culture with wit and charm, making it an ideal accessory for pride events, casual wear, or gifting to fellow members of the community who appreciate a good laugh.

Lesbians Eat What? Enamel pin

Celebrate who you are with this vibrant enamel pin that proudly declares your neurodivergent and queer identity. Featuring bold, eye-catching design on durable metal backing, it's the perfect way to express yourself on your jacket, bag, or anywhere else you want to make a statement. Small but mighty, this pin sparks conversations and connects you with your community. Wear it loud, wear it proud.

Neurodivergent And Queer Enamel pin

This cute rainbow teddy bear keyring is perfect for showing your pride. Featuring a stitched rainbow flag design in a heart shape, this accessory is sure to make a statement. Show your love with this stunning keyring.

Rainbow Teddy Bear Keyring

This fan measures 33cm when closed and 66cm when open. It makes a very satisfying cracking sound when it is opened and closed too! THWORP! It's made of super tough plastic and cloth and is perfect for clubbing, festivals or parades. (The colours of the ribs may be subject to change.

Pink Cloth Cracking Fan - Large 33cm

Witty quotes and wise words from a drag superstar. You betta work! Pocket RuPaul Wisdom contains only the fiercest advice from the supermodel of the world. Learn how to sissy that walk, sashay, shante, and slay the runway. In Pocket RuPaul Wisdom, Ru shows off her charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.Full of insights into love, identity, glamour and performance, this collection of quotes is perfect for Drag Race fans and anyone seeking wisdom from the ultimate queer icon. 'If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?' 'We all came into the world naked. The rest is all drag.' 'I can barely speak English, but I'm fluent in throwing shade.' Sometimes we all need a little Ru in our lives.

Pocket RuPaul Wisdom

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019. 'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING. 'A vital book' ANDREW MCMILLAN. 'This Brutal House leaves its reader full of a powerful, protesting energy' IRISH TIMES. 'A powerful and poetic book' KERRY HUDSON. On the steps of New York's City Hall, five ageing Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves. Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing; their absences ignored by the authorities and uninvestigated by the police.In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest, and commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from City Hall's windows is city clerk, Teddy. Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce.With echoes of James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson and Rachel Kushner, Niven Govinden asks what happens when a generation remembered for a single, lavish decade has been forced to grow up, and what it means to be a parent in a confused and complex society.

This Brutal House

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID. Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter.As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

Carol

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST. 'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers. 'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert Everett. Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene.Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies - at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.First published in 1978, Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest.

Dancer from the Dance

In the summer of 1995, South African Jack Parker arrives in New York City, ready for a year of adventure, and discovery. But as he settles into his new life, Jack’s world begins to unravel. Nightmares, panic attacks, and haunting déjà vu moments disturb him, hinting at a dark past he’s long buried.In different ways, a chance encounter, and a growing relationship with Cal, his neighbour, force Jack to confront his inner turmoil, he embarks on a harrowing process to uncover the truth about his childhood. As memories of trauma and loss resurface, Jack must grapple with who he is and who he fears he might become. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1990s New York, this poignant tale explores repressed memories, identity, and love in the face of immense fear and pain.Will Jack find the strength to reclaim his life, or will the shadows of his past consume him?

I, Jack Parker?

PRE-ORDER NOW: 9 JUN 2026 Michael Stein arrives at the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies battered and broken after the death of his boyfriend seven months prior. Blaming himself for the accident that killed him, Michael has come to the Institute to complete his boyfriend's dissertation as part of his effort at repentance. While Michael's own past leads him to condemn superstition as a way to mask prejudice and old-fashioned beliefs, his boyfriend's research argues that the folktales told in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe were based in truth, and that demons and other creatures walked the earth, wreaking havoc on peoples' lives.Instead of the Institute's infamous archivist, Michael is met by his grandson, Jacob Schechter, who has taken over the archive after his grandfather's death. A firm believer in the existence of the supernatural, Jacob explains that the archive plays host to a coterie of household demons. Michael insists that he is a skeptic, but strange and frightening occurrences plague his research, causing Michael to question both his sanity and his view of the world. To cope with his guilt, grief, and the terrifying shadows following him, Michael must reckon with the events leading up to his boyfriend's death, and his role in it, by trusting the enigmatic Jacob to help uncover the truth. As untangling the mysteries of the past bring Jacob and Michael closer together, their respective secrets threaten to tear them apart. Because Michael is not the only one with darkness on his conscience, and if he and Jacob discover the truth of each other, only one of them may survive the fallout.

The Way It Haunted Him

PRE-ORDER NOW: 16 FEB 2026 When eighteen-year-old Keller Hartman is recruited into the Legion’s most prestigious galactic unit, it’s a dream come true. He's worked hard for this. He’s ready to prove himself. The problem? His new partner, the beautiful, no-nonsense pilot Lament Bringer, wants nothing to do with him.Forced to work together under Legion orders, Keller and Lament team up with a motley crew of specialists to investigate a mysterious visionary who can predict catastrophes. As they begin to peel back layers, however, they realize there's more to the story than meets the eye. With threats mounting and secrets unfolding, Keller and Lament will need to trust one another in order to stop the dangers at play. But with trust comes other feelings, ones neither of them is prepared for.With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, the only thing worse than failing their mission might just be losing each other.

If All The Stars Go Dark

The ocean is calling...With the return of the evil Shadowling, Astrid, Jonas, and Gwen are faced with a new by order of the Queen, they are sent on a top-secret journey across the sea to retrieve ancient weapons that the Bloom Bloods hope can stop the Shadowling once and for all.Gwen and the twins set off, but it’s not all plain sailing. When their ship is jeopardised, they must turn to an unlikely source for help, and worst of all, a certain royal shipmate keeps pestering them.They will soon learn that the sea is full of wild and untameable magic, magic that could reveal answers the twins have been searching for their whole lives. With their rag-tag crew and the fate of the world at stake, who can they trust? And what terrible things might be waiting for them in the deep?

The Darkest Duet

Ren Hang, who died by suicide on February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefront Chinese artists' battle for creative freedom. Like his champion Ai Weiwei, Ren was controversial in his homeland and wildly popular in the rest of the world.He said, "I don't really view my work as taboo, because I don't think so much in cultural context, or political context. I don't intentionally push boundaries, I just do what I do. "Why? Because his models, friends, and in his last years, fans, are naked, often outdoors, high in the trees or on the terrifyingly vertiginous rooftops of Beijing, stacked like building blocks, heads wrapped in octopi, body cavities sprouting phone cords and flowers, whatever entered his mind at the moment. He denied his intentions were sexual, and there is a clean detachment about even his most extreme images: the urine, the insertions, the many, many erections.In a 2013 interview VICE magazine asked, "there are a lot of dicks...do you just like dicks?" Ren responded, "It's not just dicks I'm interested in, I like to portray every organ in a fresh, vivid and emotional way." True though that may be, the penises Ren photographed were not just fresh and vivid, but unusually large, making one wonder just where he met his friends. In the same piece, Hang also stated, "Gender isn't important when I'm taking pictures, it only matters to me when I'm having sex," making him a pioneer of gender inclusiveness.Young fans still eagerly flock to his website and Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr accounts. His photographs, all produced on film, have been the subject of over 20 solo and 70 group shows in his brief six-year career, in cities as disparate as Tokyo, Athens, Paris, New York, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Vienna, and yes, even Beijing. He self-published 16 monographs, in tiny print runs, that now sell for up to $600.TASCHEN's Ren Hang is his only international collection, covering his entire career, with well-loved favorites and many never-before-seen photos of men, women, Beijing, and those many, many erections. We take solace remembering Ren's joy when he first held the book, shared by his long-time partner Jiaqi, featured on the cover.

Ren Hang

In Mix-Mix, Dani Putney excavates facets of their mixed-race heritage using reformulated text from the “Asian Romance Guide to Marriage by Correspondence” to consider their relationships with their Filipina mother and late white father, problematizing, but also attempting to understand, the circumstances that led to their parents’ marriage across two continents via mail correspondence. In addition, the collection puts queerness and non-binary identity into conversation with heritage, invocations of pop-culture icons, reflections on the speaker’s daddy issues, and general explorations of queer sexuality. In Mix-Mix Putney seems to ask, “Why were we born? How do we live with the circumstances of our birth, both historically and culturally?”

Mix-Mix

A Queer-Feminist Theory Democracy in the Political Present 'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities-one which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.

Image for Democracy in the Political Present

While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention, or acceptance. This ode to the male physique celebrates the evolving, at one time illicit, art form from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels. Through the classic, the playful, and the provocative, it explores the compositions, postures, and role-playing of this often under-explored genre.Esteemed masters such as Herbert List, George Platt Lynes or Robert Mapplethorpe are all there, alongside Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, famed for his homoerotic images of nude youths in classical postures in Sicily. Further highlights include illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the mid-50s gay scene and a pioneer in gay publishing. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!

The Male Nude

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.For over thirty years, Old Second and his wife, Bao Mei, have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two aren’t in love. In rural China, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a rundown theater where gay men cruised without fear for intimacy and conversation.While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found privacy—and love—in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold tickets to closeted men; guarding their secrets, guiding them in their relationships, and even finding her own happiness with the theater’s projectionist. But when Old Second’s passion for his lover is discovered, a series of haunting events unfold, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America.As we follow these characters from China to New York, from first love to old age, we bear witness to the tensions of immigration—and how memory forever weighs down the present. Cinema Love is a big-hearted and heart-shattering novel about desire, secrets, grief, how we care for one another, and how we survive.

Cinema Love

Whatever you fear, come close my dear; you're tucked in safe for always here; and I will never not be near; because of our love umbrella. From this award-winning creative duo comes a stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that love can bring - wherever we roam in the big, wild world.

Under the Love Umbrella

Machine Dazzle, to my mind, [is] a true theatrical genius who has created some of the most inventive costumes and sets I have ever seen. Hilton Als Machine Dazzle is the much in-demand designer and artist behind popular cabaret, drag, and performance stars such as Taylor Mac and transgender icon Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.For the first time, his over-the-top stage creations, made for himself and others, are collected in one volume alongside stage environments, ephemera, and photos from his fascinating career. In Machine Dazzle s world, costumes are transformative objects with world-making capacity. The artist s queer maximalism encapsulates a more is better attitude to making and creating which looks to counter elitist notions that spectacle and extravagance are vapid.For him these associations are embraced as queer for their affirmation of hybridity over purity and the rejection of hierarchies of every kind, cultural and otherwise. On the occasion of a major exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, curator Elissa Auther brings together a rich collections of essays and reminiscences from fellow performers, historians and cultural critics that consider every aspect of Machine Dazzle s rich body of work.

Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle

Perfect for any party these rainbow paper napkins will look perfect with other rainbow party decorations for a fun and vibrant setup. The vivid colours pop against the shimmering gold metallic foiling and will brighten any venue. Each napkin is shaped like a rainbow and will make for a stunning party table setup. Be sure to add in the matching cups and plates for an epic rainbow party! Each pack contains 16 rainbow party paper napkins measuring 11.5cm (H) x 16.5cm (W)

LGBTQ+ Rainbow & Gold Foiled Party Napkins

Perfect for any party this tassel garland will look perfect with other rainbow party decorations for a fun and vibrant setup. The vivid colours pop against the shimmering gold metallic tassels and will brighten any venue. This DIY tassel garland kit comes complete with 16 tissue paper and gold tassels, ribbon and instructions card. Simply lay the tassel out, fold and twist. Thread the tassels along the twine to create a stunning garland! Each rainbow tassel garland pack contains 19 tassels and 1.5m of clear string. Tassels measure 20cm (H) when folded.

LGBTQ+ Rainbow & Gold Foil Tassel Garland

It's not a real party without rainbow bunting. Here we have our 6 colour gay rainbow pride flag bunting. At 8 meters long with 25 flags, there's plenty to go around. Each flag measures at 18cm x 28cm.

Gay Pride Flag Bunting Triangle (8 Meters x 25 Flags)

This fantastic fun and bright rainbow heart balloon is perfect for any party. This heart shaped rainbow pride pattern foil helium balloon measures 17 inches. Please note this balloon comes uninflated but can be bought from our Manchester store and inflated for free.

Gay Pride Rainbow Heart Balloon

Would your customers prefer all four of our Tom of Finland coasters together in one box set? Well, we've now made that an option! We've taken some of our favorite Tom of Finland illustrations, and transformed them into vibrant, pop-art coasters. Printed on a combo of fiberboard and cork — these sexy coasters are sturdy, laminated, long-lasting items. They measure approximately 4x4 and are perfect for the home, holiday and gift-giving!

Tom of Finland Coaster Set (all 4)

These vibrant rainbow pride decorations are perfect for every event whether hanging them on your door or wall these flags will brighten any event. These pride flag decorations are 30cm x 180cm and come with the hanging cord.

Rainbow Flag Pride Hanging Decorations

No pride or birthday event is complete without a balloon rainbow. Our rainbow balloon arch will illuminate every celebration. With 6 colour latex balloons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple) -5 balloons for each colour of 12 inches, 15 balloons for each colour of 5 inches. with 6 coloured crepe paper rolls. With 5M balloon chain and 100 transparent glues. Easy to Assemble:Balloon garland kit is assembly easily. Firstly, you make mixed color balloons inflatable, then tie knots . Secondly, insert balloons into the balloon decorating strip hole. Finally, hang the garland on the wall. Glue dots can friendly help you, and will not leave traces on the wall you paste after removal.

Pride Party Balloon Decorations

A great addition to any party, our LGBTQ+ rainbow balloon arch will be a focal point at any celebration! Our great balloon arch kits are sure to wow your guests and get them talking - complete the look with some of our other rainbow party decorations. Our multi balloon arch has 85 balloons which consists of - 5" & 12" balloons in the following colours, purple, red, blue, green, yellow and orange and 4m balloon tape and glue dots. Balloon arches come with all components to assemble at home.

LGBTQ+ Rainbow Balloon Arch Kit

Anxious thoughts keeping you up at night? Meet your soft and stab-able new sidekick – the Anxiety Voodoo Doll. It’s your personal outlet for stress, worry, and “why am I like this?” moments. Each kit includes: 🧵 1 fabric voodoo doll ready to personalise 🖊️ 1 black marker pen for naming your worries 📍 A bunch of pins to let those feelings know who's boss Write your anxieties directly onto the doll – whether it’s “spiralling thoughts” or “Sunday scaries” – then stick a pin in them. It’s strangely comforting and surprisingly therapeutic.

Personal Voodoo Doll - Anxiety

This is one of our best selling Plush Masks. It’s the floppy ears that does it…. not to mention the Pug is one of the most loved dog breeds in the UK. Comfy Sleeping Mask with adjustable strap.

Eye Mask - Pug

Are you looking to conjure up a love spell or just bring yourself some good luck? This card pack features rituals to help you achieve success and happiness in all parts of your life.

Everyday Spells Cards

Are you ready to start seeing and reading auras? These cards are filled with knowledge and activities to teach you everything about auras and how we can use them to improve our physical, mental and spiritual health. Each pack contains a set of 100 cards.

Aura Reading Cards

100 tips to find peace in a chaotic world. Improve your energy and inner zen with these mindful meditation cards. With 100 cards to keep calm, you can use these wherever and whenever you need a bit of peace in your life.

Mindful Meditation Cards

Are you ready to start a journey of self-discovery and unlock your hidden energies and power? These cards will guide you through each of your seven major chakras and send you on the road towards enlightenment. Each pack contains a set of 100 cards.

Chakra Cards

When you need to get washed without any water and want to wash in the privacy of your own tent! No more queuing for those awful, dirty festival showers. This festival set will leave you feeling and smelling fresh. It's alcohol free and vegan friendly, and can be used as often as necessary. Simply apply to your hair or body, massage to release the dirt and odours, then towel dry. It doesn't leave any sticky residue either. This kit contains: 65ml Towel-Off Shampoo 65ml Towel-Off Body Wash 1 pack of 9 expandable wipes

Pits & Bits Filthy Festival Wash Kit - No Water Required

This prescription-style mint pill box is packed with refreshing mints. These are little minty pills. Don't worry, they're not actual medication.

Candy Mints - Shutthefuckupiscon (Gob Closing Capsules)

Candy Mints - Footiemycin (Calming Kickoff Capsules)

Candy Mints - Cuntalocin (Anti-C*nt Capsules)

Candy Mints - Wankyhistimine (Wrist recovery Pills)

Overworkydryl is the perfect novelty gift for anyone who’s been working hard and needs a little comic relief! This prescription-style mint pill box is designed for the overworked and under-rested, offering a humorous take on the stresses of modern life. Packed with refreshing mints, Overworkydryl provides a bit of calm in the chaos, making it the ideal gift for anyone who could use a break. Whether it’s for a colleague who never takes a day off, a friend juggling too many tasks, or a family member who's always burning the candle at both ends, Overworkydryl is a fun way to acknowledge their dedication with a lighthearted twist. The box features a playful prescription label, reminding the recipient that sometimes a mint break is the best way to recharge. Warning: Sarcasium may cause loss of your only personality trait. On the plus side, your friendships might finally be saved (if you’ve got any left).

Candy Mints - Overworkydryl (Workaholic Relief Pills)

Finally, a remedy for chronic sarcasm sufferers! Sarcasium is the hilarious mint pill box designed for those who just can’t resist a snarky comment. Packed with “Eye Roll Prevention Pills,” this novelty prescription promises relief from excessive wit and the urge to respond with “Oh, really?” every five seconds. Each box is filled with refreshing mints cleverly disguised as tablets — because nothing says self-awareness like medicating your own sarcasm. With its witty packaging and brutally honest warnings, Sarcasium is a must-have for any novelty gift range. Perfect for friends, co-workers, or anyone whose humour has gone a little too dry. Warning: Sarcasium may cause loss of your only personality trait. On the plus side, your friendships might finally be saved (if you’ve got any left).

Candy Mints - Sarcasium (Novelty Eye Roll Prevention Pills)

Candy Mints - Overthinkydryl (Overthinking Prevention Capsules)

Candy Mints - Slutraline (Leg Closing Capsules)

Wear Your Colours With Pride A cute pendant in the design of the bisexual flag.

Bisexual Pride Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride A cute pendant in the design of the pansexual flag.

Pansexual Pride Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride A cute pendant in the design of the transgender flag.

Transgender Pride Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride A cute pendant in the design of the lesbian flag.

Lesbian Pride Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride A cute pendant in the design of the non-binary flag.

Non-Binary Pride Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride. This stunning brass plated dog tag showing the Lesbian pride rainbow flag in embossed enamel. Supplied with a standard dog tag chain measuring around 70cm in length.

Lesbian Pride Flag Dog Tag Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride. This stunning brass plated dog tag showing the Pansexual pride rainbow flag in embossed enamel. Supplied with a standard dog tag chain measuring around 70cm in length.

Pansexual Pride Flag Dog Tag Necklace

Wear Your Colours With Pride A cute pendant in the design of the rainbow pride flag.

Rainbow Pride Necklace

Wear your colours with Pride with our selection of LGBTQAI+ face paints. Can be used up to 100 times with 9m of makeup per unit and is well adapted even for application on sensitive skin.Designed for a safe makeup, the ingredients are hypoallergenic without paraben and MIT. The removal is easy with cleansing lotion, soapy water or with a simple tissue. For children under 3 years old we recommend an adult supervision.

Bisexual Flag Face Paint

Asexual Flag Face Paint

Trans Flag Face Paint

Rainbow Flag Face Paint

Non-Binary Flag Face Paint

Lesbian Flag Face Paint

Eli Peterson is a self-taught, up-and-coming makeup artist in the cosplay scene who is barely making ends meet. While they might be slaying it with their breath-taking looks, they're also trying to save enough money for top surgery and convince their parents that their artistic dream is worthwhile. During a convention, Eli hears about Makeup Wars, a competition that could change everything... The grand prize? A scholarship to Beyond, the best SFX school on the West Coast. The problem? Going head-to-head with the most talented up-and-coming makeup artists in the scene-including rival influencer Zachary Miller, their ex-boyfriend. Eli will have to juggle their makeup brushes, their rekindled feelings for Zach, and their self-doubt in order to win everything they've ever wanted: a chance to chase their dream and a second chance at love.

Breakup, Makeup

Our fun and fruity gay rainbow stick lip balm in strawberry flavour. Palm Oil Free: Yes Gluten Free: Yes Cruelty Free: Yes Vegan: Yes

Gay Rainbow Stick Lip Balm - Strawberry

Is your pooch a Taurus or Aquarius? Unlock the secrets of your pet’s personality with this card pack, featuring all 12 zodiacs. 100 Card Pack Unlock the Secretsof your Dogs Personality Featuring all 12 Zodiacs

Paw-mistry Dog Cards

Make bathtime more fun! This collectable Rubber Duck comes all the way from Germany Grab them while you can, before each style is retired and replaced with a new design! Approximate size - 10cm x 7cm x 9cm. When ordering, please bear in mind that lots of these ducks are collectables, so many not always float upright in the bath.

Rubber Duck - Football Star Red (Lilalu #2365)

Rubber Duck - Football Star Blue (Lilalu #2364)

Rubber Duck - Surgeon Duck (Lilalu #2199)

Rubber Duck - Disco Queen Duck (Lilalu #2351)

Rubber Duck - Michael Jackson (Lilalu #2353)

Rubber Duck - Gamer Black (Lilalu #2304)

Rubber Duck - King Charles (Lilalu #2368)

Live your whole year alongside the Heartstopper gang - with this 12-month wall calendar featuring iconic images from the bestselling graphic novel series. Includes a bonus Heartstopper poster! This full-year calendar is filled with favourite characters and moments from the series. Join Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson, spot the character birthdays, and enjoy the bonus poster! Boy meets boy.Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Heartstopper is the award-winning LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between: now a live action TV show on Netflix.

The Heartstopper 2026 Calendar : With art by Alice Oseman, and bonus poster!

Here's a loud and proud birthday card. Wave your flag and celebrate big time! A bright blue gay birthday card featuring a cute illustration of two girls with rainbow apparel and waving a classic pride flag. Multicoloured text on one t shirt reads Happy Birthday.

Pride Girls Birthday Card

Let Trans Mushroom help you send your special message with this A6 greetings card this pride season. ABOUT THE CARDThe cards are A6 size and come with a White C6 envelope (size with envelope 114 mm x 162 mm).All contained in a plastic sleeve.Printed on Matt Card. - Blank inside to let your own words do the talking.

Transgender Mushroom LGBT Greetings Card

Let Lesbian Mushroom help you send your special message with this A6 greetings card this pride season. ABOUT THE CARDThe cards are A6 size and come with a White C6 envelope (size with envelope 114 mm x 162 mm).All contained in a plastic sleeve.Printed on Matt Card.Blank inside to let your own words do the talking.

Lesbian Mushroom LGBT Greetings Card

Let Bi Mushroom help you send your special message with this A6 greetings card this pride season. ABOUT THE CARDThe cards are A6 size and come with a White C6 envelope (size with envelope 114 mm x 162 mm).All contained in a plastic sleeve. Printed on Matt Card.Blank inside to let your own words do the talking.

Bisexual Mushroom LGBT Greetings Card

Let Ace Mushroom help you send your special message with this A6 greetings card this pride season. ABOUT THE CARDS - The cards are A6 size and come with a White C6 envelope (size with envelope 114 mm x 162 mm). All contained in a plastic sleeve. - Printed on Matt Card. - Blank inside to let your own words do the talking.

Asexual Mushroom LGBT Greetings Card

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to announce our beliefs from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence.A memoir in 20 stickers, Sticker is set against the backdrop of the encroaching neo-fascist presence in Hoke's hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, which results in the fatal terrorist attack of August 12th and its national aftermath.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Sticker

A Queer Guided Journal on Finding Your Allies, Demanding Liberation, and Using Your Voice (Finding Yourself; Fighting Transphobia and the Gender Binary; LGBT Issues) Write down every thought, every feeling, and every doodle that pops into your mind with this high-quality guided journal destined to be your safe space as you navigate your gender journey. The start of this journal gives an up close and personal seat to Milo Stewart’s start as a pansexual teen in the hallways of their middle school in Ankeny, Iowa. It is there, where they discover transgender teens are everywhere, living, breathing, and thriving in mundane and ordinary spaces, and where they come into their nonbinary and trans identities Write down your own experiences with questions and guided journal prompts written to get you to reflect in a safe space. Write about your sexual identity, gender identity, and finally discover yourself. Reflect on who you’ve been and who you want to be, embrace yourself in a whole new way; finding yourself is the goal! Inside, you’ll find: Resources and thought-provoking journal prompts to get you to unleash and discover yourself & high-quality blank pages to write down your thoughts, feelings, and stories all throughout the book

Trans Futures Now

Secure your spot at Queer Makers Market with this £15 stall fee. Perfect for independent creators, artists, and makers ready to showcase their work to a vibrant, supportive community.

Market Stall Fee - Sunday 26th April

LGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear regularly in news media. If history museums and historic sites are to be inclusive and relevant, they must begin incorporating this community into their interpretation. Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites is straightforward, accessible guidebook for museum and history professionals as they embark on such worthy efforts. This book features:*An examination of queer history in the United States. The rapid rate at which queer topics have entered the mainstream could conceivably give the impression that LGBT people have only quite recently begun to contribute to United States culture and this misconception ignores a rich history. A brief overview of significant events in LGBT history highlights variant sexuality and gender in U.S. history, from colonization to the first decades of the twenty-first century. *Case studies on the inclusion and telling of LGBT history. These chapters detail how major institutions, such as the Chicago History Museum, have brought this topic to light in their interpretation. *An extensive bibliography and reading list. LGBT history is a fascinating story, and the limited space in this volume can hardly do it justice. These features are provided to guide readers to more detailed information about the contributions of LGBT people to U.S. history and culture. This guide complements efforts to make museums and historic sites more inclusive, so they may tell a richer story for all people.

Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites

Are you brave enough to venture into the Darkroom? Notorious South London gay leather club, Darkroom, plays host to men with extreme desires. Owned by Dean Mitchel, the club is a mecca for leather men across London who want to relish their fetish and play hard.Come inside and meet the team. The bouncers, the barmen and the Go-Go dancers, along with all the leather-clad clientele. All waiting to entertain you. Of course, if you really want to get to know them, come and feast on the extreme action in the club’s back room.So, are you ready? Step out of the light and come into the DARK.

DARKROOM

Would you love to give someone a gift from Gay Pride Shop, but don't know exactly what to buy them? Or you'd rather they chose something themselves? Now we've solved this problem. You can send someone a virtual gift card to spend at Gay Pride Shop. Even better, unlike most physical gift cards you buy in shops: It will never expire It can't be lost! If the gift card code is ever misplaced, the person who bought it can resend the code or you can contact us directly It doesn't need to be used all in one purchase You can ask us to check the remaining balance by emailing us at any time To send someone a card simply chose the amount and complete the purchase. Then simply send them the gift card email you'll receive from us. To redeem a gift card, you simply use the unique code supplied at our checkout.

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No Signal, No Noise

RuPaul's Drag Race UK returns to our screens for Series 3 with an all-new cast ready to slay the runway. Discover the secrets of the Werk Room and get all the gossip backstage in exclusive interviews with the Queens of Series 3. Take on mini challenges, learn the secret to a killer Snatch Game performance, and re-live the most iconic moments of RuPaul's Drag Race UK so far with stories from the Queens of Series 1 and 2. With special features, play-along games, secrets and trivia, this is your perfect companion to the Drag Race extravaganza! Remember kids, reading is fundamental!

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

“No other writer in the Spanish-speaking world is as fiercely independent and thoroughly irreverent as Gabriela Wiener. Constantly testing the limits of genre and gender, Wiener’s work… has bravely unveiled truths some may prefer remain concealed about a range of topics, from the daily life of polymorphous desire to the tiring labor of maternity.”—Cristina Rivera Garza, author of The Iliac Crest In fierce and sumptuous first-person accounts, renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener records infiltrating the most dangerous Peruvian prison, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, traveling the dark paths of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the company of transvestites and prostitutes, undergoing a complicated process of egg donation, and participating in a ritual of ayahuasca ingestion in the Amazon jungle all while taking us on inward journeys that explore immigration, maternity, fear of death, ugliness, and threesomes. Fortunately, our eagle-eyed voyeur emerges from her narrative forays unscathed and ready to take on the kinks, obsessions, and messiness of our lives. Sexographies is an eye-opening, kamikaze journey across the contours of the human body and mind.

Sexographies

Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half of the Utah Jazz. Add to this home video footage a mom clacking away at her newspaper column between chemos, a dad with ALS, and a cast of foulmouthed siblings. Fast forward the tape and you'll find Marshall happily settled into his life as a gay man only to discover he's been living in another closet his whole life: he has cerebral palsy. Here, in the hot mess of it all, lies Greg Marshall's wellspring of wit and wisdom. Leg is an extraordinarily funny and insightful memoir from a daring new voice. Packed with outrageous stories of a singular childhood, it is also a unique examination of what it means to transform when there are parts of yourself you can't change, a moving portrait of a family in crisis, and a tale of resilience of spirit. In Marshall's deft hands, we see a story both personal and universal-of being young and wanting the world, even when the world doesn't feel like yours to want.

Manchester’s Canal Street is world-famous as the heart of its Gay Village, featuring bars, clubs, and history. Manchester Pride is one of Europe’s biggest, symbolizing the city’s legacy of activism, music, and unapologetic queer pride.

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