The Microsoft version of the emoji depicts the flag attached to a grey flag pole. On Twitter, the flag resembles a rectangle with rounded corners. On most major platforms, the emoji depicts a flag waving in the wind that has, starting from the top, a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet stripe. The emoji is a combination of the White Flag emoji 🏳️ and the Rainbow emoji 🌈. If you’re less a novel Nancy and more a podcast queen, you can still support the shop: The space boasts a cozy coffee bar with baked goods where patrons can sip lattes and listen to whatever their heart desires.The Rainbow Flag emoji 🏳️🌈, also popularly called Pride Flag emoji, was added to Emoji 4.0 in 2016. Calendars featuring the Bel Ami boys aren’t regularly lining the shelves next to this year’s steamiest queer romance novels in a corporate book emporium. Outwords carries the type of books and gifts you’ll be hard-pressed to find in Barnes & Noble. There are only a handful of LGBTQ-specific bookstores left in the US, and this Milwaukee literary lab is one of the lucky few. For books - Outwords Books, Gifts, and Coffee, Milwaukee, WI If you’re unwilling to wait for the next LGBTQ mixer or book club, check out Zeus’s original web series, The Variants, to get a feel for owner Richard Neal and the community he created. Although these indoor gatherings are on hiatus due to COVID-19, you can support the business by shopping online. The queer-friendly staff regularly hosts experiences that amplify the voices of marginalized communities in the comic book ecosystem, including women and LGBTQ folx. Photo: Zeus Comics and Collectibles Inc/Facebookįans of Batwoman, Hulkling, Loki, and Northstar should head to Zeus Comics - a specialty shop in Dallas with a sizable LGBTQ following. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of the most fabulous retail stores for unique finds in the US. Buying gifts from their stores is like investing in a queer future, and after the year we’ve all had, there’s no better present than a rainbow-colored tomorrow. The gutsy entrepreneurs who run these mom & mom and pop & pop shops are an integral part of queer communities around the US. This season, queer your holiday cheer by supporting LGBTQ-owned independent businesses. But Unlike ABBA, who thinks “money must be funny in a rich man’s world,” the way LGBTQ folx decide to spend is no laughing matter. Still, with support from fellow community members, queer people can do better than mere survival.Īccording to a recent report by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the queer community accounts for $917 billion in annual spending power - which is enough money to make 12,226 remakes of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, in case you were wondering. LGBTQ folx aren’t strangers to hard times - if anything, they’re masters at surviving bouts of poverty and disease.
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