THE DOMESTIGAY HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!
The gifting season is here! The holidays are drawing in upon us and you may be asking yourself what is the perfect gift for the domestigay on your list. No fear! I am here to provide you with creative domestic, gay, and domestigay gift ideas for any budget!
If you decide you want to buy any of these gifts for the domestigay in your life, the link the title will take you to the appropriate website to purchase the item! You can also click on the “guide” to make it bigger if you want to see the items in more detail.
1. Sassy Gay Metal (fill-in-the-blank) Case from SweetHeartSinner Creations ($9.99)
I’ll admit I’m jonesing for one of these. This is the all-around awesome domestic, gay, and domestigay gift. It is a cigarette case. It’s an id holder. It’s a cash and credit card holder. It’s a business card holder. It’s a case to hold a domestigay’s embroidery scissors, a skein of floss, and some needles. It is a domestigay embroidery-on-the-go dream. This really is the perfect gift for anyone because it is so versatile, like many gay men! But wait, should you have a lesbian in your life, there are also tons of lesbian styles of this. Just browse around SweetHeartSinner’s store.
2. “Homo Sweet Homo” XStitch from Subversive Cross Stitch (Basic Kit -$12.00 / Deluxe Kit $20.00 / Downloadable .pdf Pattern $5.00)
Do you have someone on your list that wants to learn cross stitch? Then the deluxe kit from Subversive Cross Stitch is perfect! It comes with easy instructions and everything one needs to complete the project. You can even change the colors of the hearts on the cross stitch if you want. Do you know someone who just needs the pattern? You could buy them the .pdf of the pattern and let them make their own. Or, you could download the pattern for yourself and make this quick project for a last-minute gift for the gay on your list. This was one of the first cross stitch projects I did!
3. Steve Petrow’s Complete Gay and Lesbian Manners: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life ($12.21)
I recently purchased this book for a multitude of reasons and it has been invaluable. Not only is it perfect for any gay or lesbian in your life, it is also perfect for a heterosexual. It covers everything you could ever want to know about GLBT manners. Topics include: coming out, dating, sex etiquette, moving in together, popping the question and weddings, parenting, bullying & homophobia, entertaining, workplace issues, travel, and much more. Also, if you are looking to make “get engaged” a New Year’s resolution for 2012, I suggest placing a loving bookmark on the page about popping the question and giving it to your future fiance for the holidays!
4. Beefcake Beach Embroidery by Sublime Stitching (iron-on transfer $5.00 / .pdf pattern $3.00)
It is no surprise to anyone that reads this blog regularly that I LOVE SUBLIME STITCHING. This is perfect for the gay embroiderer on your list. Who doesn’t want to embroider sexy beefcakes on their shirts, bags, towels, and gym rags? This pattern is the one that I embroidered on my beefcake shirt! And let’s not forget our lesbian embroiderers, they might like the Pin-Up Grrls I made, which also came from Sublime Stitching or these beach babes. Again, this is a project you can do for the gays in your life, or you could purchase the pattern and kit to introduce embroidery to the domestigays in your life. I also recommend this embroidery kit (where you can get the beefcakes and pin-ups included) if you want to give the gift of embroidery this holiday season. This is how I first taught myself embroidery.
5. “I’m so gay I qualify as a housewife” Magnet by PicardCreative ($5.25)
I saw this and immediately thought it is the perfect magnet to grace any domestigay’s fridge, filing cabinet, or other metal space. This quotation is also like a domestigay mantra, the gayer we get the closer to housewife status we get. If this one doesn’t fit your fancy (or it is sold), look at the other equally funny and lovely magnets from PicardCreative.
6. Gay Accent Breath Spray from BlueQ ($4.99)
I adore BlueQ. They have subversive vintage-inspired items that will make anyone with wit laugh. I put this on the holiday list because if you are questioning if someone is gay or not this holiday season, then buy them something off this list and this breath spray. They will like your gift no matter what, because they will soon be speaking with a “sizzle” in their s’s. This item may be the ultimate stocking stuffer this holiday season.
7. “TOP GAY” Apron from LGBabyT ($20.00)
I will take one of these in black, please. For the baking gay in your life (or just the top gay in your life), I present to you this amazing domestigay-approved apron with wordplay from the hit television show Top Chef (or arguably from one of the gayest not-gay films, Top Gun). I recently wore an apron to cook Thanksgiving. At $20.00 an apron, how can you pass up this great kitchen wear for the gay in your life? I’m just curious though, what happens if one is a “bottom gay” or a “versatile gay”? This will work perfect for barbeques, entertaining, baking, cooking, or just hanging out in the house. If I had one of these, I’d totally wear it all the time, even when I wasn’t baking!
8. Men-Up Calendar by Rion Sabean ($15.00)
I already bought one three of these. I got one for me, one for my boyfriend (which he got at Thanksgiving), and one for a friend. Rion Sabean took men and “typical” men activities and photographed them in pin-up girl poses. You must get this for the gay guy or straight woman in your life for 2012. It is a perfect holiday gift since one week after the holidays, a new year means a new calendar! I’m in love with this calendar and already have mine hung up to January. And guess what, too! These come signed by the photographer. So not only are they amazing calendars, but they are also autographed on the cover. I’ve already explained to Mr. Sabean on Twitter that he should watch out for my 2012 campaign to be a model in the 2013 calendar. His response, “You never know it could happen.” My response, “Let’s change that could to will.”
9. Swish and Gay Haiku by Joel Derfner ($12.29 / $11.99 for Kindle)
I read Gay Haiku back when I first started dating my boyfriend. He had it on his shelf, recommended it to me, and then, one day while he was out doing his big gay theatre thing, I read it. It is hysterical. Anyone who has a love of gay culture, poetry, and haiku will love this book. It is perfect for the reading gay on your list. Unfortunately, it is only available “new” on Kindle, but you can get it used from $1.92.
Derfner’s second book, Swish, is subtitled, “My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended Up Happening Instead.” I’m currently reading this a little each night before bed. This is put on the list for the domestigay knitters in your life. The first chapter, “On Knitting” is a lovely look at knitting and how it came to provide insight for Derfner into the tense relationships gay men sometimes have with their mothers. So far so good. A must read for all domestigays. Should I start a domestigay reading list? If so, this is toward the top.
10. A Thank You Note to Your Domestigay by You (Free)
Holidays are a time of goodwill, gratitude, and love. Sometimes the best gifts are the most simple ones. That’s why I’m ending the 2011 Domestigay Gift Guide with a handwritten note thanking the domestigay in your life for being who s/he is and being a part of your life. Queer people need to be told that they are appreciated and loved—often more than their straight counterparts. With families disowning gay people, tons of homophobia in the world, bullying directed at homosexuals, and all the ways the lgbt community is ostracized in the world, just telling a queer person that you love him/er, are grateful s/he is in your life can be more powerful than any of the other gifts on this list. And, since times are tough, it is also the cheapest, most meaningful, and best gift any domestigay could ask for.
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Well, that’s it folks. Now, I must ask you, what are YOU getting the domestigays in your life this holiday season?
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