LGBTQ+ Sustainable Brands for Pride & Beyond
Sustainably-focused brands made by and for the LGBTQ+ community
FLAVNT Streetwear
FLAVNT Streetwear is an Austin-based independent clothing brand for everyone within and anyone who supports the LGBTQ+ community. FLAVNT is all about being comfortable with who you are and flaunting that to the world. They offer a variety of apparel and accessories and only print on brands of clothing that are produced using Fair Labor.
Beefcake Swimwear
Beefcake Swimwear provides sustainably and ethically manufactured swimwear with an inclusive range of sizes. Their goal is to make eco-responsible swimwear that helps all types of people feel confident and comfortable.
NICOLE ZÏZI STUDIO
NICOLE ZÏZI STUDIO is a brand focused on eco-conscious, sustainability, and innovation in gender-free premium street-wear and accessories. By sourcing recycled, alternative, and natural materials, NICOLE ZÏZI STUDIO develops new products that push towards the elimination of environmental pollution.
Femme Forte
Femme Forte is a small business focused on creating a sustainable, ethical, and kind fashion option. Femme Forte offers a variety of t-shirts and tote bags that are 100% cruelty free and made by people who are treated well and paid fairly. Zoe originally founded the company in 2019 as a way to raise money for a London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. Since then, they’ve raised money to not only help create an LGBTQ+ Community Centre, but also to support homeless LGBTQ+ youth, transgender young people, and those who cannot afford period products.
HOMOCO
HOMOCO is a queer swim brand that draws on the legacy of founder/designer Daniel DuGoff’s family’s gas stations, Homes Oil Company that went by the nickname “HOMOCO.” The brand is known for their printed swim trunks that are made out of recycled plastic and camp shirts from sustainably harvested Tencel. HOMOCO is open and accepting of everyone who loves the sun and is specifically catered towards fashionable people who love fun.
Wildfang
Wildfang rethinks gender norms and how they show up in fashion. From empowering blazers to comfy coveralls, Wildfang’s apparel line embraces our masculine, our feminine, and our-everything-in-between. Since their launch, Wildfang has donated over $500k to good causes like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. Their mission to take care of the planet is reflected in their socially and environmentally sustainable supply chain and production practices, and they continue to implement new sustainable practices annually.
Noto
Noto was founded by Gloria Noto who has an extensive background as a fashion and beauty makeup artist and editor and founder of the art and culture print publication: The Work Magazine. After working first hand with cosmetic brands whose products were filled with chemicals and pollutants, she sought to create her own solution by changing the ingredients in her products and reimagining the visual identity of wellness and beauty. Noto is a multi-use, gender-fluid, clean cosmetic line packed with uncomplicated yet high performing ingredients and celebrates authentic and diverse layers of self-expression and beauty.
BlackQueerMagic
BlackQueerMagic was founded by V (she/them), a self taught jeweler who identifies as a Black, Queer, Jamaican woman, and former foster youth. They create handmade healing crystal and metal stamped pieces that focus on Black Queer and Trans liberation. Through this platform, V is able to merge her love of community activism and therapeutic interventions with her love for jewelry fabrication.
Makoma The Brand
Makoma The Brand is a global fashion fusion lifestyle designed from African diaspora. Their goal is to create one-of-a-kind, contemporary designs using a combination of African prints and classic silhouettes. Makoma offers magnificent dresses, ponchos, and jumpsuits, and their high-quality craftsmanship and authentic styles are comfortable and ethically made.
TOMBOYX
TomboyX is a line of undergarments and apparel that launched as a Kickstarter campaign by wives Fran Dunaway and Naomi Gonzalez. The couple set out to create underwear that any body could feel comfortable in, regardless of where they fell on the size or gender spectrum. Their products use eco-friendly fibers, including MicroModal and OEKO-TEX Certified cotton, and are made in women-owned factories that pay living wages.
HUMANKIND SWIM
Humankind was founded by Haily Marzullo as a genderless swimwear line that changes the way the LGBTQ+ community shops for swimwear. Their approach is simple: a place to buy a swimsuit that makes you feel comfortable and confident. All of their swimwear is Made in the USA using domestic materials.
Fluide
Fluide is a collection of colorful, cruelty-free makeup for all gender expressions, gender identities and skin tones. The company was created to celebrate gender expansive identities and provide high quality, high-impact cosmetics for maximum self-expression and joy. Fluide understands that makeup is a tool of transformation and a powerful means of self-actualization. By naming lip and nail shades after queer spaces around the globe, Fluide seeks to pay tribute to the importance of safe spaces for the LGBTQ community.
MATRIARCH
Matriarch is a line of gender-neutral footwear started by two San Francisco-born sisters (one of whom is queer). The brand was born out of the belief that shoes have been divided into "men's" and "women's" categories for too long—when in reality style and aesthetic preferences transcend gender lines, and foot size shouldn't limit one's style or quality options. Their shoes are made of high-quality, vegetable-tanned leather.
HECHA
HECHA specializes in sustainable, gender-flexible, hand-painted garments + activewear base-layers. The brand’s intent is to blur categorical boundaries by experimenting across mediums and working transparently to create conversational platforms for human connection, collaboration, and communal support.
Salt
Salt is intentionally designed for all genders, inspiring ease, comfort and versatility for all bodies. Produced and sourced entirely in New York City, Salt is committed to design that disrupts the historically harmful and exploitative garment industry, and supports a way of moving through the world that resists white supremacist, capitalist, and normative standards of beauty and expression.
Kirrin Finch
Kirrin Finch challenges fashion industry norms for what is considered menswear and womenswear, shifting the focus to clothes that fit well. They’re sustainable and made in the USA, using natural fabrics with low-impact dyes.
OTHERWILD
Otherwild is a queer-owned business with ethics at the core of its mission. Otherwild is dedicated to fair wages and labor practices, and eliminating products that employ a majority of single-use plastics in their design and more. In addition to clothing and accessories, Otherwild also sells housewares and apothecary products.
Official Rebrand
Official Rebrand (OR?!) is a gender-free upcycled fashion label founded by nonbinary artist, MI Legget. OR?! introduces consumers to “a new eco-aesthetic by upcycling pre-worn clothing, exploring the collision of anxieties surrounding climate change and dependence on decadence.”
Automic Gold
Automic Gold makes radically wearable fine jewelry for all sizes and all genders. Founded by AL Sandimirova, the brand uses 100% certified recycled gold reclaimed from old electronics and jewelry.
AC / Space
AC / Space was founded by Angie Chuang, a non-binary Taiwanese-American designer. She is the first-generation daughter of immigrant parents from Taiwan. Chuang graduated from Parsons in 2015 and continued working as a designer at notable fashion houses in NYC. While gaining experience and honing her skills, she began to see the environmental destruction caused by the fashion industry. Chuang's fascination for sustainable design methods inspired creative solutions to avoid creating further waste as well as give back to her community.