Shop From These LGBTQ+-Owned Businesses For the Coolest Holiday Gifts

JZD Todas Las Chicas Cool Son Queer Tote Bag ($32)

Founded by married power couple Jen and Vero, JZD is a Latina lifestyle brand that's been around since 2016 and beloved by many Latina celebrities. Do you have a Latine, queer bestie on your list? JZD's got you covered with its wide array of tote bags, sweatshirts, T-shirts, stickers, and more, decorated with the most relatable Spanglish quotes. Speaking of relatable Spanglish quotes, our pick goes out to all the sapphic Latine cowgirls in our friend group. This adorable cowgirl tote bag features the words "todas las chicas cool son queer" (or "all cool chicks are queer") in red.

Couplet Coffee The Ultimate Espresso at Home Starter Kit ($45, originally $50)

Couplet is a specialty coffee brand with fresh roasted beans, funkily designed equipment, and unique merch, founded by Gefen Skolnick, a first-generation immigrant and proud queer woman. All the coffee-obsessed and baristas-in-training on your list will go crazy for this start kit bundle. It includes Couplet's cottagecore-inspired Moka Pot with its adorable cow-print design, and The Espresso for Everyone Blend, a mix of their Brazilian, Nicaraguan, and Peruvian whole espresso beans — the founder's personal favorite. Plus, it comes with a magnet with instructions on how to make espresso at home using a moka pot. Just don't forget to include a coffee grinder — but if they're a total espresso snob, they probably already have one.

Ash + Chess Queer Tarot: An Inclusive Deck & Guidebook ($28)

Ash + Chess is a queer- and trans-owned art brand founded by Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham. The site is filled to the brim with books, prints, accessories, apparel, and more. Anything you decide to gift from this brand will surely be loved, but the Queer Tarot deck has a very special place in my heart. Whether your giftee is an experienced reader or simply tarot-curious, these 78 risograph-style illustrated cards are an extremely unique and gorgeous addition to any deck collection. The deck is illustrated by queer artists, and also features a range of gender expressions and sexual orientations in each card's illustration and meaning in the guidebook. It's queer every way you look at it (and we're obsessed).

Coming Soon NY Bathing Lady ($45)

Coming Soon NY is a "fun and functional" furniture design and gift shop that's filled with authentic creative expression, founded and curated by power-couple Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria. For anyone obsessed with hosting or interior designing, any item you decide to gift from Coming Soon NY will be unique, luxe, and entirely queer. Our pick is this Coming Soon exclusive Bathing Lady by Mosser Glass that comes in eight beautiful colors — made from hand pressed glass and perfect for soap, jewelry, nuts, business cards, sponges, and more.

Tanaïs Scent Sextet Curated By Sleepless Scents ($54)

Tanaïs is a queer fragrance brand run by founder Tanwi Nandini Islam, a New York City based author and perfumer, and beauty and studio director Talysha Moneé. The scents are inspired by their Bangladeshi heritage, their spiritual homes of India, Hawaii, Bali, Mexico, Morocco, the Mojave Desert, and Jamaica, as well as the non-duality of masc-femme and Afro-futurism. Fragrance can be tricky to gift if you don't know your bestie's scent preferences, so that's why we recommend a sample set. Curated by South Asian Perfume creator Yogi (@sleeplessscents), this set includes the following six fragrances in convenient travel sizes: Lovers Rock (spiced tobacco and sandalwood), Nymphaea (aquatic floral), Nåmaka (tropical floral), Sándalo (classic sandalwood), Pilgrimage (spicy floral), and Mala (incense, henna attar, rose, marigold, and carnation).

Gay Pride Apparel Gay & Tired Rainbow Embroidered Unisex Sweatshirt ($49)

Founded by Sergio Aragon and Jesus Gutierrez, two first-generation Mexican Americans, Gay Pride Apparel offers exactly what you'd expect: clothes, accessories, and home goods that celebrate every queer identity, well beyond Pride Month. These designs are quirky, well-made, and hilarious — by us and for us. Your queer bestie will be giggling and saying "this is SO me" as soon as they unwrap it. This sweatshirt is embroidered with "Gay & Tired" right in the center and comes in three neutral shades.

Snif Rain Check Everything Wash ($15, originally $19)

Founded by Phil Riportella and Bryan Edwards, Snif is a luxury scent brand that features genderless scents, clean ingredients, and affordable prices. Take it from this fragrance-obsessed lesbian, if you've got a perfume collector on your list, they'll love anything by this brand. So, if you don't want to accidentally gift them something they already own, why not opt for a luxe laundry detergent? That might sound crazy, but fancy detergents are all the rage now — it's an excellent alternative to the usual fragrance gifts. Snif's Rain Check Everything Wash features a fresh scent with notes of bergamot, geranium, pink pepper, moss, orcanox, and vetiver.

Grow Into Journal ($29, originally $39)

Grow Into is a self-care journal brand that's founded by queer immigrants Magdalena and Para. Everyone knows every stationary- and journal-obsessed person on our list has a million notebooks and journals, but that won't stop them from wanting another one anyway. The Grow Into Journal promises to be different. Inspired by the founders' struggle with maintaining consistency in journaling, the daily prompts and page outlines are simple enough to fill out every day, but thoughtful enough to make a difference in your routine. Plus, the company donates 1 percent of their profits to the Los Angeles LGBT Center at the end of each fiscal year.

NOTO Deep Serum ($36)

Founded by renowned queer makeup artist and creative Gloria Noto, this clean beauty brand is well-known (and beloved) for its multi-use, sustainable, and gender-inclusive products. If you have a gender nonconforming, agender, or nonbinary bestie on your gifting list, any of NOTO's oils and serums are an excellent option for their luxury feel, gender-neutral packaging, and great scents. One of its bestsellers is the Deep Face + Neck Serum, a hydrating, skin barrier-protecting oil serum that tightens, brightens, and repairs your skin. Plus, the botanical ingredients (like green coffee oil, grapeseed oil, marula oil, grapefruit oil, and sea buckthorn) make it smell absolutely incredible.

"Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People's Culture" by Angela Y. Davis ($18)

Black, queer, and woman-owned, Reparations.Club is a concept bookshop and creative space founded and curated by Jazzi McGilbert. Any book you decide to pick up from Rep.Club will be loved by any of your friends on your list — whether they're a writer themselves, a huge reader, an artist, an activist organizer, or a queer theorist. Our chosen pick is for the artists and activists on your list. Davis's influential 1985 essay examines the role of art in social and racial liberation, and includes illustrations by painter Tschabalala Self.

Sofía Viera is a queer nonbinary writer based in Brooklyn who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Their work has appeared in PS, Refinery29 Somos, Remezcla, and LatinaMediaCo.