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The Rainbow Stores
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Queer/Trans owned store selling apparel and accessories to help LGBTQ+ people feel awesome 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ www.therainbowstores.com
If you love Bronski Beat's 80s classic Smalltown Boy our latest poster may just be right up your street 🎶🌈
#queer #smalltownboy
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March 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
'We Will Not Be Erased' T-shirt and Stickers and a new Trans Pride flag backpack landed in the store today. Wear them with defiance
Get them here www.therainbowstores.com/collections/...
February 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The mainstream media demonisation of the trans community must be stopped. If you want to have an opinion about trans people go and speak to trans people. Otherwise your opinion is invalid.
February 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I’m wearing my Heroes of Stonewall t-shirt today. Four of the names on this list are #trans women of colour who fought for my rights. 🏳️‍⚧️
You can buy one here www.therainbowstores.com/products/her...
February 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We know it's tough for queer peeps atm so we're always looking for ways to cut prices. And we're so happy to announce that our new supplier for mugs means we can cut 25% off all mug prices from today. To celebrate we added 7 new ones. Yay! 🌈
Shop mugs here www.therainbowstores.com/collections/...
February 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We're just added a couple of lovely retro style WeAretheResistance posters to the site. One with a Trans Pride Flag and one with a Rainbow Pride Flag. Perfect to remind you that resistance is critical 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈.
Find our posters here www.therainbowstores.com/collections/...
February 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A very Queer Happy Birthday today to the glorious Alan Cumming. I suspect everyone knows him and hopefully loves him, his list of films, TV shows and awards is huge, and he's currently enjoying being the host of The Traitors US.
January 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A very Happy Birthday to the incredible Peter Tatchell. He’s been relentless in his LGBTQ+ activism for more than 40 years. He co-founded direct action group OutRage! and has campaigned against racism, homophobia, censorship and the death penalty. 🌈
January 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It's National Compliment Day Today! So may we say that you look amazing and we're so jealous of your sense of style! 🤓
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To help you be someone’s ray of light we've created a few compliments that we'd like to get. Feel free to download any and send them to someone you'd like to compliment today 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our second Queer Birthday is the pioneering trans man and author Thomas Beatie. Having transitioned in 2002 he married Nancy Gillespie in 2003, she couldn't have children, so he suspended his testosterone and elected to have their baby. He finally gave birth in June 2008.
January 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our first Queer Birthday is the African American poet and activist Pat Parker. Who's poetry and activism was based around her experiences as a black lesbian feminist. In a 1975 interview with Anita Cornwell she said, "after my first relationship with a woman, I knew where I was going."
January 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Where do we even start with today’s Queer Birthday person, the absolute shining star that was Janis Joplin. Genius, legend, rebel. Hero to many. Her fame was short lived but she burned so brightly between 1967 and 70 when she was one of the most successful singer songwriters on earth
January 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yesterday was a bit chaotic here and in all the fuss I completely forgot to post that it was National Hat Day dammit 😫 So let’s pretend it’s today. I want to see your lovely hats, whether they’re beanies, caps, bucket hats, berets or any other type!
Here’s one of ours to get started 🌈
January 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today's Queer Birthday celebration is for an actor and makeup artist who wowed us as Nomi Marks in Sense8. The incredible Jamie Clayton. For many trans girls, her character in Sense8 was the first time they saw themselves reflected back on television. And for that she is a hero to so many. 🏳️‍⚧️🥂🍾🥳🎁🎈
January 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Our Queer Birthday today is a man who was immensely flawed, and incredibly talented in so many ways. Genius photographer, double Oscar-winning costume designer and society dandy. Cecil Beaton was a central figure in the Bright Young Things set in Britain in the 1920s. 1/3
January 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My joy is that I made a LOVE pie for dinner. Made with love and full of love. 🥰
January 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Today's Queer Birthday is London club DJ Mark Moore. He started his career in 1983 at Philip Sallon's 'The Mud Club', playing new wave electronic dance music. In '88 he co-founded dance pioneers S'Express, who's debut single was credited by Muzik mag as 'kick starting the UK house scene' 1/2
January 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Happy Queer Birthday today to the great Joan Baez. One of the greatest singer songwriters of her generation, and a Bisexual woman who has fought endlessly for LGBTQ+ rights. Her 1977 song "Altar Boy and the Thief" was written as a dedication to her gay fanbase. 🥳🍾🥂🎶
January 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Our first Queer Birthday of 2025 is a hero to so many. Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust or just David Bowie. Hard to believe he’s not still with us. He would have been 78 today.
January 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our Queer Birthday today is French novelist, playwright, poet, and political activist Jean Genet. He spent his early years as a petty criminal and wrote his first poem and first novel while in prison. When he was released he introduced himself to Jean Cocteau, who liked his work and got it published
December 19, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Time to join the resistance then www.therainbowstores.com/collections/...
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM
It was first created in 2014 in a post on the MOGAI-Archive blog. The Genderfae flag, below, was designed in 2017 and first appeared on DeviantArt. it doesn't include any blue, which would represent masculine-aligned genders.
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Soooooo are you ready to RESIST the orange. If you are we have a sticker for you...
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November 28, 2024 at 10:57 PM
See our new RESIST range now in store 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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November 27, 2024 at 11:11 PM
It’s 46 years ago today that Harvey Milk was assassinated.

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November 27, 2024 at 7:48 PM