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While today some brands are casting more queer people in their campaigns and runway shows, and all kinds of companies are jumping on the pride bandwagon (i.e. banks, candy corporations, restaurant chains!) we’re finding it hard to spend our dollars at companies that don’t support queer individuals all year round. Plus, though it’s great that queer people are getting more support and representation, which in turn is fostering more acceptance towards their communities, corporate efforts needs to go deeper than just ad campaigns and rainbow-colored products.

It’s time for more queer people to be put in positions of power and rooms where big decisions are being made, from the fashion industry to government and beyond. Scratch that, we’re long overdue for these kinds of shifts to occur. And this is exactly why we’re rounding up 10 queer-led fashion companies you should shop not just this pride month, but 365 days a year.

Automic Gold

Automic Gold

Automic Gold makes “radically wearable fine jewelry for everyone” — particularly for all sizes and all genders. Run by wives, Al Sandimirova and Jamie Kiera Ada, Al started the New York-based company because the, “majority of today's jewelry is designed by old men with big money, is marketed using skinny models with pale skin and is un-inclusive and un-diverse.” So, Al wanted to make jewelry more inclusive, accessible and honest. While the industry standard is to make rings in sizes 4 to 9, Automic Gold offers rings in sizes 2 to 16. They offer 14K dainty rings with small charms such as hearts and the word “no”, as well as earrings that say “they” and “them” in addition to simple studs and hoops. Their necklaces say things like “gay” and “dope, bold, sexy”. We can’t wait to stock up on all of their products once our next paycheck comes in.

Get your hands on Automic Gold here.

XYST Ugli

Started by 20-year-old Tazia Cira, XYST Ugli is a line of upcycled t-shirts. Tazia, who lives in Chicago, tell Teen Vogue that they started their company due to the “disgusting irony” of corporations who make “expensive tees that cost cents to create with fluffy empowering statements” which she believes typically cater to a very narrow set of people — those who are cishet, white, abled, and upper middle class — “all under the guise of feminism.” In this way, the designer sees making clothes as a “tiny method of protest” and a way to create spaces of inclusion and solidarity by creating items people feel empowered in. Their t-shirts, which are all decorated by them, are emblazoned with customizable phrases such as “ableism is not poetic”, “sustainable activism is nothing without self-care”, and “protect trans youth”.