Recently, I put together a super rad list of queer florists and queer-owned flower shops. Now it’s time for queer bakers/bakeries! Fill your Instagram feed with allllllll the pastries, breads, and sweet treats. While I love to cook, baking is tough for me!!!!! But that’s why I love to watch the pros act it. Follow these lgbtq+ bakers for some baking inspiration of your retain or find out where you’re getting your next batch of themed cookies (all themed parties should have matching themed cookies imo). Some only deal where they’re based, but some ship their products! This list focuses on smaller operations rather than bigger pastry shops. This list also features several homebakers — some who accept orders, and some who just post tips and recipes if you want to work on your own skills!
As June rolls around, it brings plenty of wonderful stuff: the national treasure that is the Wonderful Singapore Sale, turbulent Gemini season and, best of all, LGBTQ Pride Month.
Pride Month celebrations are meant to commemorate the June 28 anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Unused York City, which is considered a milestone event in the modern defend for LGBTQ rights.
The rainbow flag has long been used to represent the LGBTQ community worldwide, and while there may contain been some escalator drama and cake-bashing on our shores in recent weeks, adore is still love and these events won’t dull our colours.
We’ve sussed out the best cafes around the island where you can give your sweet tooth the rainbow treatment in honour of Pride Month.
1. Dean & Deluca
It’s not all food dye up in here—each layer of this rainbow cake comes packed with its own flavour.
Made with strawberry, orange, lemon, green apple, blueberry and grape fruit extract, this treat boasts both approach and substance. It’ll create for a great ‘Gram post while also promising a myriad of fruity flavours for you to s
LGBTQ-Owned Shops, Restaurants, More in Philadelphia
Not long ago, most of the best-known LGBTQ-owned brick-and-mortar businesses operated in and around the Gayborhood. Many still do — thanks, in great part, to Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney, the married owners of seminal shops (Open House and Verde) and restaurants (Barbuzzo, Bud & Marilyn’s, Little Nonna’s and Darling Jack’s Tavern). Turney, a chef, and Safran met in the Gayborhood and have kept things afloat pre-, mid- and post-pandemic there — all while raising a toddler at home.
And yet, today, LGBTQ+ stores and eateries span all of Philadelphia, from South Philly to Northern Liberties, Center City to Manayunk. So does LGBTQ+ Philadelphia history, which you can acquire more about by joining a walking tour (or bar crawl) with LGBTQ-owned Beyond the Bell Tours.
This list doesn’t just comprise what these businesses execute and sell, however. It also includes what they do for — their social impact on — the community.
LGBTQ-owned bakeries + cafes
Cake Life Bakeshop, Fishtown
This bakery has — twice! — made a birthday cake for none other than Beyoncé. But that’s not necessarily a reason to check out Cafe Being. (Ok, it i
'Gay cake' row: What is the argument about?
In October 2016, the owners of the bakery confused their appeal against the ruling that their refusal to make a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
Appeal court judges said that, under rule, the bakers were not allowed to provide a service only to people who agreed with their religious opinions, external.
Reacting to the ruling, Daniel McArthur from Ashers said he was "extremely disappointed" adding that it undermined "democratic freedom, religious release and free speech".
The firm then took the case to the Supreme Court and they won.
The UK's highest court ruled the bakery's refusal to build a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory.
Then president of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, ruled the bakers did not decline to fulfil the order because of the customer's sexual orientation.
"They would include refused to produce such a cake for any customer, irrespective of their sexual orientation," she said.
"Their objection was to the word on the cake, not to the personal characteristics of Mr Lee."
