Holiday Gift Guide for LGBTQ+ Friends & Family

It’s that time of year again! The holidays are right around the corner, and those presents aren’t going to buy and wrap themselves. Not to worry though! Your friends here at Red Hen Press have got you covered, with a variety of gift guides for all the people in your life.

This guide has gifts you can give to your loved ones with pride — queer friends and allies alike.

“I sew myself together / again and again” in urgent vulnerability, H Warren’s debut collection, Binded, discloses their reality of living nonbinary in the rural context of Alaska. With breasts bound by compression, these poems explore the space that binds the body into itself, stuck in unrelenting forces of binary politics and violence. Each poem is a stitching and restitching of the self — an examination of trans-survival. This is a courageous collection — an anthem of Queer resilience and a reminder of the healing powers of community care.

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Sex Augury is a collection that practices divination with the symbolism of our radically changed and changeable world. Exercising trans poetics, C. Bain denormalizes the violence embedded in the most intimate strata of American life. Confrontationally queer, urgently wounded, deeply political, and metaphysically transported, these poems create their own system of meaning in an environment that is increasingly hostile to meaning of any kind. This collection spans digital culture, gender reversals, and archetypal-mythic vocabularies, alongside close observation of the surround of “ordinary” urban existence. Sex Augury is a work of dyads, not binaries — concepts bound together which nonetheless refuse to form a coherent, harmonious whole; humor and despair, tenderness and brutality, desire and revulsion. These poems bristle with intelligence, acuity of feeling, and refusal to gloss the complexity of our moment into a false narrative of progress.

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APOCRIFA imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, romance, sex, relationships, and affection that do not lend to direct translation in English. Serving as both titles and markers of the progression of time, these poetically defined words highlight the growing tension of one who claims “i cannot love you enough/to unlove the wide world” and yet is inextricably drawn to the offer of “a place of sustenance, rest, and my delight in your very bones.” Heavily inspired by the metaphors and structures of Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon), from the Apocryphal books of the Bible, the characters speak to each other with contrapuntal call-and-response while letting us into their private thoughts through epistles, sestinas, odes, and other poetic forms.

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Don your gay apparel for your next holiday get together, with this cute and clever sweatshirt, and support a queer-owned shop at the same time.

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Stay loud, proud, and comfy with these best-selling black and rainbow socks, and help save LGBTQ lives at the same time. For each pair of these Fairtrade, GOTS, and Vegan Certified socks sold, Conscious Step donates $1 to The Trevor Project, with a committed annual gift of $40,000.

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Need a casual way to let folks know which pronouns you use? These pronoun pins are the perfect way to convey that while staying stylish! Grab a pin reading “He/Him,” “She/Her,” “They/Them,” “She/They,” “He/They,” or “Ask Me” and in doing so, become an active member of the Human Rights Campaign.

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This zine contains queer writing explorations to work through at your own pace. No matter where you are in understanding your queer identity, these prompts can still unfold new thoughts and feelings. Like all Songs of Ourselves work, the intention is to reflect, play, heal, and deepen the connection you have with yourself. This guide also features some advice about how to begin a reflective writing journey.

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This inclusive and affirming tarot deck is a bright, bold reimagining of the major and minor arcana, that offers inspiration, affirmation, and LGBTQ+ representation. Created by queer and trans artists, the deck showcases a wide range of gender expressions and sexual orientations, and incorporates queer history and iconography throughout.

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Nothing says holiday cheer like the warm light and sweet smell of a flickering candle. These hand-poured, vegan candles come in a variety of scents and sizes for you to choose from.

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