About us
Queer Blend is one of those businesses that was born out of the lockdowns during the covid-19 pandemic. Like many people out there at the time I was working reduced hours, spending more time at home and wasn't able to do much at the time.
Face masks were being made mandatory, but I wasn't a fan of the plain boring blue ones everyone was wearing. I came up with a few ideas and thoughts gathered. Maybe I should make my own face masks?
So that's where the journey began. I knew sooner or later that face masks wouldn't be needed as much so I wanted to continue but create something I was passionate about and really cared for.
This was creating unique, bold and eye catching products with a LGBTQ inspired design upon every item. These products range from clothing, greeting cards to colouring books and art prints.
For a number of years I have had the thoughts of why isn't there any queer inspired pieces of art within the mainstream culture and available to buy on the high street. The only times I can recall is whenever there is pride which once after all the products are then pulled off the shelves.
Being gay myself I identify as gay for 12 months of the year not just for pride season. It would be nice to have the choice and option to buy something which has queer art incorporated within it whenever I would like and from where ever I like.
I've got nothing against sex shops but you tend to find if anything has been designed with a slight hint of queer art being influenced upon it then its only sold there. It's time that we can share what we design and embrace the styles, boldness and empowerment of what each designed product creates.
Lets change what has become a boring, outdated, bland scene upon the high street and retail and swap it for something that is bold, different, unique, fun and has a slight tongue and cheek humour blended within it.