Wear it with Pride: Queer tees you can buy online

By Gwen on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 18:48

Although I live in Amsterdam, and before I lived here often thought once I would live in Amsterdam I would start buying tons of Pride gear from gay shops, I have yet to set foot in any gay shop besides the bookstore.

I think this is because most shops that sell Pride t-shirts cater mostly to men. (But then again, I did just say I never actually set foot in one.)

The internet, of course, has an answer to this, like it has an answer to a lot of things. There are several sites on which you can buy any kind of t-shirt or other Pride apparel you want. For starters, you can get all your eurOut tees and accessories here. One of the sites I found months ago is CafePress, on which you can either search for ‘lgbt’ , ‘queer’, or ‘lesbian’, which is what I used to do when I felt like looking at stuff I didn’t have the money to buy. You could also go to online stores powered by CafePress, like Rainbow Sauce and DykeTees, where they have a tee with the brilliant text “the binary gender system sucks”.

Then there are the shops with lots of pink like the British Little Ms. Tees and the French La boutique des muses. Especially Little Ms. Tees sells t-shirts with witty texts like “Funded by the Helena Peabody Foundation”, “Some people are cute. Get over it”, based on the Stonewall campaign, and “Yes, I have long hair. Yes, I am a lesbian”. These are the kind of t-shirt designs I get lost in while browsing until deciding I want them all but can’t allow myself to start buying them.

General Pride apparel is even more of a browsing maze for me, which is why I almost never look to see what is out there. A site like Over the Rainbow Shop sells basically everything, from flags and belts to tassels and greeting cards with “Some of the greatest families are the ones we’ve chosen”.

Just in case you’re now scratching your head wondering why I only pointed you to the lesbian tees, most of the shops linked above also have tees for the bisexuals among us, but the British Bisexual Index also has a shop devoted entirely to bisexual slogans – “Accept the truth, there is no fence”. Their shop is powered by Spreadshirt which “ships to Germany and most other European countries”. When I went to Spreadshirt’s homepage, I immediately got it in Dutch, so I think I’m good. (But my bank account isn’t.)

CafePress ships to most European countries as well, Little Ms. Tees says “shipment is free to anywhere in the world”, and I think La boutique des muses ships anywhere too, although I first had to navigate through complicated French until I decided I was just going to assume they do because I couldn’t readily find it.