Our LGBTQ+ Winter Market is back for another year!
Date: Sunday 14 December
Time: 1-7pm
Location: London LGBTQ+ Community Centre, 60-62 Hopton St, SE1 9JH
Meet the fabulous LGBTQ+ sellers at this year’s market and pop in on Sunday 14 December to shop cute queer gifts!
Meet the sellers
Kayla’s Fudge
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Kayla’s Fudge (she/her) is a black, queer, woman-owned fudge business specialising in homemade, smooth and delicious fudge.
Starting in 2015 selling fudge to classmates, our mission has expanded to nationwide delivery with seven irresistible flavours incorporating confectionery classics.
Suitable for vegetarians with gluten-free options, Kayla’s Fudge has served at different events and markets, collaborating with collectives such as Art Beyond the Shell, The Blacker the Berry Project and the Get Busy Kiki ballroom events. In addition, Kayla’s Fudge has become a regular stall member with ethical and sustainable market, Duck Pond Market.
Els Illustrations
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Eleanor (she/her) makes watercolour and pencil illustrations, featured on her queer greeting cards, prints, stickers and tote bags.
Her illustration primarily celebrates queer love and life, particularly in the greeting card space, which can be heteronormative. She loves providing representation for her community.
The Common Press
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The Common Press CIC is a nonprofit Black and trans-owned queer bookshop/cafe offering a lovingly curated range of LGBTQIA+ books.
As London’s first consciously queer, intersectional bookshop, they provide needed community space in their area that platforms marginalised voices and fosters connection, culture, and care.
Meli Ceramics
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Meli Ceramics (she/her) is a professional potter based in South London.
Her work is mainly based on functional tableware designs that bring sophistication and uniqueness into the space around them.
The combination of the precision and symmetry of wheel throwing with one-of-a-kind hand-built alterations makes her work stand out pieces!
Good Boi Candles
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Scented candles with Big Wick Energy – for the Bois, the gays and the theys!
Antoine and Mikel conceived Good Boi as a love letter to the queer experience and gay culture. Each candle focuses on complex, sophisticated scents celebrating queer joy, body euphoria and all the intricacies of a liberated sex life under the rainbow.
Good Boi will be selling their signature Good Boi soy wax scented candles, including two festive scents, and their festive homoerotic Good Boi zine.
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Curly Femme Fashion
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Curly Femme Fashion is the immersive, fashion-forward world of Lily Parfitt (they/she).
As a lesbian multidisciplinary artist and maximalist, they aim to celebrate uniqueness, individuality, and bring back simple play with their work.
Lily showcases a unique blend of handmade pieces and intricately sourced vintage jewellery. All of their work utilises primarily second-hand/recycled materials including beads, carabiners, board game pieces, toys, bows, piercing jewellery, and more.
Melouba
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Etsy
A collection of decorative art with bold statements: an ode to queer love and a cry against misogyny, homophobia and transphobia using humour, created by Melouba (she/her).
Boe Studios
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Boe (they/she) is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of queerness, transness, and identity, with a particular focus on advocating for queer people of colour.
Their artistic practice is known for its bold, maximalist style, creating immersive worlds that challenge conventional boundaries and celebrate fluidity, resilience, and self-expression.
Kai Kathleen
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Kai Kathleen (they/them) is a queer illustrator and mural artist whose vibrant and empowering artwork work focuses on their passion for LGBTQ+ empowerment and self-compassion.
Created from a desire to connect with their community, Kai’s comforting, inclusive designs are transformed into high-quality products which they sell on their Etsy shop and to indie retailers, museum stores, gift shops and queer spaces.
Jen Bello
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Jen (Jen/they) is a queer Black artist who loves to create anything – from digital illustrations to crochet and clay.
A lot of Jen’s art is inspired by identity, the cartoons they grew up on, and the communities they exist in that continue to shape them. Jen’s work celebrates the beauty of being seen and known, using bold
colours to explore how it feels to be.
Natalie Yau
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Natalie (she/they) is a British-born Chinese stained glass artist.
She is currently exploring animation shorts in glass, Asian snacks and lil’ characters.
Food by AJ
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AJ (she/her) is a vegan chef with her own cafe in Greece.
She makes delicious plant-based food of all kinds, including sweets and cheez! AJ will have bounty bars, hazelnut fudge, banana walnut bread, carrot cake and pumpkin miso white chocolate chip cookies for sale.
Aaran Sian
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Aaran (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual art, community engagement and social justice. Their work celebrates queer and trans people of colour and envisions radical, speculative futures shaped by QTPOC.
At the LGBTQ+ Winter Market, they will be sharing art prints, badges, stickers, and small zines that bring revolution and joy, exploring themes of identity and collective liberation.
Kat Outten
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Kat Outten (they/them) makes small batch, handmade ceramics, exploring their lived experiences as a non-binary, fat, queer, working class person.
Expect lots of colours, silliness, and queerness!
The East London Strippers Collective
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The East London Strippers Collective is a network of feisty, feminist and fiercely independent strippers, ex-strippers and sex workers (SWers).
Founded in 2014, the ELSC promotes self-organisation among strippers and lap dancers; challenging stigma around sex work, standing up to exploitation & fighting for improved safety and harm-reduction in the wider sex industry.