At the NYC Pride march, a queer person wearing a trans flag holding up a sign that reads, “Respect your roots. Trans women of color rioted for your right to Pride!”
This Pride month, there are so many ways to celebrate our LGBTQ+ community and for allies to show meaningful solidarity.
We've put together a guide to our favorite organizations, pop-ups & local queer-owned businesses you can support all year long!
STAND UP FOR QUEER & TRANS JUSTICE
Help organizations that protect queer and trans people stay running by donating extra funds, volunteering your time, and advocating to your local lawmakers on issues that matter.
This year, we have seen a staggering number of violent anti-trans and anti-queer legislative bills in states across the U.S. that ban trans existence in public, gender affirming healthcare, LGBTQ history, and creative queer expression. Be part of the change and help ensure that queer and trans kids grow up to be adults and can live in safety.
⚖️ Sylvia Rivera Law Project
SRLP is a collective organization that provides free legal services to meet survival needs and build community power with transgender people who are low-income, people of color, and immigrants.
🩺 Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Callen-Lorde provides healthcare services, education and wellness to New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities regardless of ability to pay.
🍽️ Queer Food Foundation
QFF is a collective-run resource and platform for queer folks in food and beverage. Their mutual aid fund provides support for Black Queer and Trans folks facing food insecurity.
🥕 Love Wins Food Pantry
Love Wins provides LGBTQ and gender non-conforming people & families access to healthy vegetables and non-perishable food.
SHOW SUPPORT ALL YEAR
Pride month is in June, but true allyship happens during the other eleven months of the year. Attend a local Pride march, patronize your neighborhood queer vendors, and shop from queer-owned small businesses (like ours!) year round.
Here are just a few of our favorites in NYC, but look up queer events and LGBTQ+ creators closest to you to show your patronage and to get involved!
🎪 Hester Street Fair Pride Market
We will be at this pop-up market of all queer-vendors serving TAGMO fare featuring Diaspora Co. spices. Join us Saturday, June 24th from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM at The Seaport, 89 South Street in Manhattan.
🥣 Queer Soup Night
QSN is a queer-run pop-up with chapters across the U.S. where LGBTQ+ folks and allies can share food and raise funds to strengthen grassroots social justice movements.
🗺️ Diaspora Co.
Diaspora Co. is a queer South Asian-run spice company that sources South Asia's freshest, heirloom, and single-origin spices directly from farmers.
🌶️ Shaquanda Will Feed You
Shaquanda's is a queer Black-owned small business making drag-themed small-batch hot sauces. Each flavor uses high quality chili pepper varietals and relies on the bounty of mother nature, with less sugar and salt than commercial sauces.
🌯 Ursula Brooklyn
Ursula is a queer-run New Mexican inspired cafe & bakery in Brooklyn that centers activism in the hospitality industry and the queer food community.