The holiday season is here, and there’s no better time to shop with intention and celebrate the incredible creativity of our community.
This year, Boston Queers has curated a special gift guide featuring standout items and services from queer-owned businesses across New England. Whether you’re shopping for your best friend, partner, or chosen family, this guide is packed with unique and meaningful gift ideas that spread joy while supporting our local LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs. By choosing gifts from queer-owned businesses, you’re doing more than just crossing items off your holiday shopping list—you’re directly supporting queer entrepreneurs who bring creativity, resilience, and heart to our communities.
Dive in and discover something special for everyone on your list—and maybe even a little treat for yourself!
Art and Creative Gifts:
📍South Egremont, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Ceramic Customized Ornament
These ceramic white 3” ornaments are completely customizable! You can add your family name and year! Also, the mittens, trees, and stocking designs can be updated to reflect the number of members of your family. All locally made in the Berkshires.
📍Marstons Mills, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Custom Zip Code Ornament
Love where you live! This hand painted custom zip code ornament is great for first time home buyers, new forever homes, or for the people who have lived and loved in the same zip code for years.
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Port-A-Pottery - Take Home Kit
Customers can work on their own time and in their own space by purchasing bisque and paints from Made By Me. The studio offers a variety of pre-packaged kits for curbside convenience or the option to build a custom kit for a truly unique experience.
📍Bridgewater, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Gingerbread Man Holiday Kit
Anyone can enjoy these activities! These Holiday crafts are great for preschoolers, school age, and even tweens! Less prep for you, more fun for them!
📍 Portland, ME
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Pet Portrait Gift Certificate
Gift a pet portrait gift certificate to your furry loving friend! Gift Certificates available in different sizes.
📍 Boston, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Pet Portrait
Gift a private, personalized portrait session in the Fur Baby Pet Studio for the pet-lover in your life.
📍Provincetown, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Rainbow Heart Mug
Womencrafts is a Lesbian owned intersectional feminist bookshop in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This mug stands out with its wide base and tapered top.
📍West Hartford, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Plaid Sparrows Mug
Wheelthrown, handpainted, and fully glazed and food safe. Mug holds roughly 14-15 oz.
📍Ogunquit, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Fat Belly Pitcher
Davis Pottery is handmade in York Harbor, Maine by Chris Davis. Davis Pottery is lead-free, ovenproof and may be used in a microwave oven and washed in a dishwasher. For years of enjoyment avoid extreme temperature changes.
📍Lowell, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Gift Card
Magic Circle Crochet Arts is a queer-owned crochet arts shop in Massachusetts, specializing in both realistic and cartoon-style amigurumi crochet animals and creatures.
📍 Boston, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Calligraphy Drills Workbook
This book is the ultimate guide to improving your calligraphy skills through effective practice drills. With easy-to-follow instructions and detailed examples, you'll learn how to master the art of calligraphy, no matter your skill level.
Blue Heron Art Studio
📍Saint Albans, VT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: eGift Card
Blue Heron Art Studio is a queer owned art studio in Vermont. Their stained glass art is inspired by nature and the Vermont Landscape.
📍 Somerville, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Gift Card
All She Wrote Books is an intersectional feminist and queer bookstore in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Household Gifts
📍Haydenville, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: 2025 Spring Flowering Bulb Subscription
This holiday season, gift the turning of the seasons with four weeks of specialty cut tulips, daffodils, hellebore, columbine, peonies, and flowering branches will start in early may and run for 4 weeks.
📍New Haven, CT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Calathea 'Dottie'
Black leaves, pink halo, pet-safe, stunningly rare! Calatheas are part of the prayer plant family, which means that they fold their leaves up at night, as if in prayer, and spread their leaves down during the day.
📍 Orleans, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Modern Sprout Altered Herbs Mug Grow Kits
Sprout and sip your way to well-being the way mother nature intended. These oversized 16oz enamel mugs come equipped with a grow kit featuring carefully chosen herbs known for their medicinal qualities.
📍Newton, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Owl Cement Planter
This concrete decor is tinted with concrete pigment and hand poured into a silicone mold. A great eco-friendly alternative to plastic pots and is sealed with an eco waterproofer.
📍Arlington, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Eco Towels by E.Klectix
Set of 6 Eco Towels by an Arlington MA resident.
Apparel Gifts
📍Bedford, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Yuletide Crewneck Sweatshirt
Show your pride AND your holiday spirit with this Yuletide sweatshirt from Floreography! A sturdy and warm sweatshirt bound to keep you warm in the colder months. A pre-shrunk, classic fit sweater that’s made with air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel.
📍Provincetown, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Stay Queer as F**k Socks
These socks make a great stocking stuffer!
📍 Portland, ME
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Pom-Pom Beanie
Support Queer Craft ME in the coziest way!
📍 Western Massachusetts
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Beanie
Handiqueers embroidered beanie to keep yer noggin warm - locally branded by friends at One Way Screen Printing in Hadley, MA
📍 Rollinsford, New Hampshire
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Nonbinary Flag Rainbow Earrings
Clay Culture Studios is a queer-owned pottery studio in New Hampshire. We love these nonbinary flag earrings!
📍 Northampton, Easthampton, and Boston, Massachusetts
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Tiny 5-Stone Flower threadless end
Lucky’s Tattoo and Piercing is a queer-owned tattoo and piercing shop in Massachusetts. They are operated with the goal of being welcoming, safe, and accessible to everyone.
📍 Providence, RI
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Haus of Glitter Logo Unisex Tank
All proceeds support Haus of Glitter's initiative to transform racist monuments through art + dance.
📍 Portland, ME
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Infant Educate Them Now Onesie
Little Chair Printing is a queer owned screen printing shop in Portland, Maine.
📍 Boston, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Canvas Cross Body
This signature piece features the quality American craftsmanship you’ve come to know and love from Twig & Horn. Easily knit while on-the-go, with no worry of your yarn getting caught or tangled.
📍Massachusetts
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Pronoun Keychains
These cute little rainbow flame pronoun keychains are available in 5 designs: she/her, he/him, they/them, she/they, and he/they.
📍Easthampton, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Let Trans Kids Bloom Pin
Trans kids are kids, and our new Let Trans Kids Bloom pin is the perfect way to show you're here to support them as they grow.
📍Brockton, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Neurodiverse Inclusion Matters Sticker
Nicole BelSummer Inclusive Creative is a queer-owned brand design business in Massachusetts that also offers home organization services for marginalized individuals.
Cosmetic Gifts
📍Hyannis, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Gift Card
The Punk Pixie is a queer-owned hair salon in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
📍Cromwell, CT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Bodifying Gift Set
Beautifying Elixirs' proprietary technology delivers the next generation of hair care with real repair and renewed vitality to the inner cortex and outer cuticle of the hair.
Food Gifts
📍Rehoboth, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Care Box
Send a message of love and light to your friends and family this holiday season. For every care package that is purchased, one will be donated to someone in the LGBTQ+ community.
📍 Billerica, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Cara's Cookie Club
The exclusive cookie subscription, customizable to your needs! Gift cookies delivered monthly, and access exclusive flavors and treats!
📍Hardwick, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Foodie Gift Box
Gift all the best products to pair with cheese! Foodie Box includes Fishwife Tinned Fish, Local Salami by Salt+Twine, Olives, and three Round Table Farm cheeses.
📍 Western Massachusetts
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Raw Honey
Wildflower honey has a bold flavor profile, with an undertone of floral delights from the Summer meadows of Western Mass.
📍White Mountains of New Hampshire
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Maple Lover's Suite
Premium Mount Cabot Maple Assortment. Includes Dry Sugar, Maple Cream, One Liter for the pantry, Just Over a Pint for the fridge, and a Tall & Thin for the table. Get set with the suite.
📍Newbury, VT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Espresso Blend
Gift an espresso blend to the coffee lover in your life. This blend is rich and full bodied with notes of cocoa, caramel and fruits.
📍Montpelier, VT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Whole Bean Dark Roast
This fair trade, organic, dark roast from Peru has hints of chocolate and macadamia with a creamy, smooth finish.
📍Florence, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Herbal Tea Sampler
Perfect sampler for the tea lovers in your life! Each pouch contains enough loose leaf herbal (caffeine free) tea for approximately 4-5 cups.
📍Williamstown, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Back to the Breath Tea
This makes a great gift for the tea lover in your life! The powerhouse antioxidant-holding herbs incorporated into this earthy blend are also immunity-boosting, nutrient-dense, and supply direct support for blood/ bone health.
📍Provincetown, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Domaine Cécillon - Cider
Classic French cider from Britany in the North West of the country. Cécillon shows a fruity nose, fine bubbles, light golden color, slightly dry with caramel and vanilla flavors.
📍East Montpelier, VT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Wine Club
A wine club membership makes a great gift! This membership includes two curated bottles of wine every month and 10% of all wine at Fox Market.
📍Watertown, Massachusetts
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Gift Card
Ritcey East is a queer-owned restaurant in Watertown, Massachusetts. They have fun and creative pub food with delicious libations and craft beers.
Cozy Gifts
📍Brunswick, ME
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Fir Tree Soy-Coconut Candle
This natural soy-coconut wax candle made by Salty Lemon Apothecary smells exactly like a Christmas tree farm with notes of Siberian fir, pine and musk.
📍Kittery, ME
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Santa's Little Helpah Candle
Sometimes during the holidays you just need to kick back, take a break, and have some ME time. SANTA'S LITTLE HELPAH gives you the buzz of a smokey bourbon cocktail without even taking a sip!
📍Portland, ME
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Minimalist Label Candles
All your favorite scents, but with neutral labels that will appeal to anyone!
📍Greater Boston, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: D&D Character Class Candles
8 oz D&D Character Class candles come in a dark amber glass jar. Made with hand-poured soy candle wax and a splash of color
📍 Hamden, CT
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Cyanotype taper candles
These sapphire blue pure beeswax tapers are individually handpainted works of art and as such, no two will be the same.
📍Ludlow, MA
🎁 Gift Suggestion: Frosted Pinecones Bar Soap
Frosted Pinecones - Bring some Holiday cheer with this wonderful blend of herbaceous pine and spruce, combined with notes of rosemary, carnation, cedar, and hints of spice.
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We hope this gift guide has inspired you to shop thoughtfully and embrace the spirit of giving in a way that uplifts our LGBTQ+ community. Thank you for supporting these incredible businesses and for making this holiday season brighter for everyone. Happy holidays from all of us at Boston Queers!
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