Happy Pride Month!  We believe in celebrating love in all its wonderful forms and teaching our children to be open-minded and kind, and to honor and celebrate differences.  

We find that books are always a wonderful to explore these topics with children.  Here are just a few LGBTQ inclusive children's books we love or that have been recommended by friends:

• Julian is a Mermaid

• Stella Brings the Family

• Pride: the Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

• This Day in June 

• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity

• Love Makes a Family

• And Tango Makes Three

We will be donating 100% of proceeds from our Les Gamins x Goldteeth Brooklyn "Love is Love" tees to  GLSEN which works end discrimination, harassment and bullying related to sexual orientation and gender identity in schools nationwide.  Here are a few other organizations to consider supporting this month, and always: 

• The Trevor Project  provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention programs and services for LGBTQ+ youth.

• The Human Rights Campaign is a civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality.

• The Marsha P. Johnson Institute works to protect and defend the human rights of  Black transgender people by organizing, advocating and creating community to heal.

• New Alternatives works with LGBTQ+ homeless youth in NYC to build stable adult lives by providing long-term support, weekly case management, education services, life skills training and community-building recreational activities/ 

• Our friends at Hazel Village are donating a portion of their sales for the month to the Okra Project, a wonderful organization bring nutritious meals to Black Trans People experiencing food insecurity. 

There are so many  incredible LGBTQ-owned small businesses.  Here are just a handful we love.  Please share any others, we love discovering new shops! 

• Amazing-smelling candles, beautiful packaging!  Boy Smells is also donating a portion of sales to the Trevor Project for the month.  

• Minna offers beautiful, ethically made home goods.  They are based in Hudson, NY but you can also shop their assortment online.  They've got so many great pillows. 

• Otherwild is queer-identified woman-owned store with the fun and thoughtfully curated assortment of unique goods for your home, your kids or yourself! 

• For those in LA,  check out the colorful and flower-filled Bloom & Plume Coffee.  In the meantime, you can also check out their cool merch! 

Have a wonderful, love-filled weekend!

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