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Sweetgreen Salad Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Jennifer Xiao

Crafted to commemorate queers securing the top spot among Sweetgreen’s customer demographics, narrowly out-tossing emotionally shattered white women who work in comms. Healthy AND indulgent, Sweetgreen has been making space for queers to make choices since 2007. Whether you’re a Harvest Bowl Hoe or a Custom Queen, we all deserve a bitchy lunch with crunch!

• Handmade by Jennifer Xiao
• One of a kind
• Approx. 4.25 inches wide x 2 inches long x 4.25 inches deep
• String length: 2.5 inches
• Materials: Paper clay, acrylic paint, cardboard, string

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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Playbill Shoebox Ornament (Act I) Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Greg Kozatek

More than high school yearbooks, Disney VHS tapes, or tag-on Beanie Babies, the playbill shoebox acts as a portkey to queer sentimentality. This makeshift cardboard sarcophagus jammed with pretty little magazines represents the full spectrum between hoarding and curation. One day you’ll put them all in plastic sleeves or something, but at least your Wicked program is signed by Idina Menzel AND Kristen Chenoweth.

• Handmade by Greg Kozatek
• One of a kind
• Approx. 2 inches wide x 2.5 inches long x 1.25 inches deep
• Hanger length: 4.75 inches
• Materials: Paper, cardstock, acrylic paint, glitter, brass wire

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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Lava Lamp Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Stephanie Seibel

Lava lamps are the training wheels of bisexual mood lighting. If you ask any queer person who grew up around Y2K whether they had a childhood lava lamp, chances are they’ll ask, “how many”? This vintage piece survived a fall off of a Spencer’s Gifts truck in 2001 and has been glooping and blopping in The InQueery’s collection ever since.

• Handmade by Stephanie Seibel
• One of a kind
• Approx. inches 3.25 wide x 7 inches long x 3.25 inches deep
• String length: Approx. 2.5 inches long
• Materials: Silk dupioni, polyester “silk”, glitter glue, wool yarn, fabric markers, polyfill
• Ornament comes with a special double-sided card that includes artist picture, bio and the descriptive text above

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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Weathervane Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Brian Britigan

This weathervane, from the The InQueery’s Invisible Forces Department, is fashioned in the classic style. Any instrument adorned with a hammered metal flying pig or crowing cock (as seen here) should be examined under the gay microscope. Does the arrow point the way the wind is going or where it is coming from? Blow on it and find out.

• Handmade by Brian Britigan
• One of a kind
• Approx. 5.5 inches wide x 6.75 inches long x 4 inches deep
• String length: 3 inches
• Materials: Felt, glue, thread, acrylic disco ball
• Weathervane directions are: L,G,B,T

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

• Inspired by Under Investigaytion

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Aqueerium Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Eliza Reisfeld

Students on the hero’s journey to Bobby Berk-dom eventually face the greatest challenge, the ultimate tableaux, the vessel that houses life: the ten-gallon fish tank. A true Aqueerium is marked by aquatic vegetation, rainbow gravel, mysterious caverns, bubbling booty and, most crucially, ruins. A childhood spent applying feng shui practices to their mother’s closet well prepares the young queer to create balance in a tiny world of their own.

• Made by Eliza Reisfeld
• One of a kind
• Approx. 3.25 inches wide x 3.25 inches long x 3.25 inches deep
• Hanger length: 2.5 inches
• Materials: Sculpey, resin, acrylic paint, rocks, wood, plastic box

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

• Inspired by Aqueeriums
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Wonder Bread Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Kalyani Kastor

Superlatively basic, Wonder Bread is chemically stripped of anything natural then supplemented with vitamins and minerals. This along with it’s shockingly white and homogenous crumb make it the Instagay of baked goods. Immortalized in pop art, this bread is sliced camp.

• Handmade by Kalyani Kastor
• One of a kind
• Approx. 5.5 inches wide x 5.5 inches long x 3 inches deep
• String length: 3.5 inches
• Materials: Yarn, buttons, cotton ball filling
• Constructed with 2.5mm crochet hook, scissors,  large embroidery needle

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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Playbill Shoebox Ornament (Act II) Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Greg Kozatek

More than high school yearbooks, Disney VHS tapes, or tag-on Beanie Babies, the playbill shoe box acts as a portkey to queer sentimentality. This makeshift cardboard sarcophagus jammed with pretty little magazines represents the full spectrum between hoarding and curation. One day you’ll put them all in plastic sleeves or something, but at least your Hairspray program is signed by a young Matthew Morrison.

• Handmade by Greg Kozatek
• One of a kind
• Approx. 2 inches wide x 2.5 inches long x 1.25 inches deep
• Hanger length: 4.75 inches
• Materials: Paper, cardstock, acrylic paint, glitter, brass wire

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

• Inspired by The Playbill Shoebox Continue reading

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Rainbow Specimen Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Conor Klein

When one InQueery chemist accidentally mixed trace amounts of “lightning in a bottle” with a dash of “just experimenting” the result was the very first rainbow in a test tube. It literally looks almost too cute, but it’s actually wildly unstable so DO NOT REMOVE CAP. Sometimes things are just for looking at.

• Made by hand by Conor Klein
• One of a kind
• Approx. inches 1.5 wide x 5 inches long x 1.5 inches deep
• Twine length: Approx. 3.25 inches long
• Materials: Repurposed glass bottle with cork, found ribbon, steel, thread, recycled cotton fluff, wool, glitter, twine

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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Gaylien Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Kyle Richer

Aliens are often genderfluid or genderless, can move easily between dimensions, and are constantly evolving. They offer us a better model of humanity. This gaylien’s first stop on Earth was The Strand, where they promptly picked up a copy of A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara. Note the shake and go wig ordered from Amazon to blend seamlessly into the human race. Caught here in a quiet moment of “reading” atop a popper pedestal. Feel the Rush and Prosper, bitches.

• Handmade by Kyle Richer
• One of a kind
• Approx. 3.125 inches wide x 5.5 inches long x 2.5 inches deep
• Hanger length: 2.5 inches
• Materials: Polymer clay, acrylic paint, yarn, paper

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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The Hours Flowers Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Theo Quest and Rachel Byland

Celebrating the homosexual reverence for references, this recent acquisition refers to cinema’s finest reference to one of literature’s most powerful moments of self-actualization. Queers from Clarissa Dalloway to Clarissa Vaughn know the urge to buy the flowers themselves. Now housed in The Scott. E. Stevenson Institute for Queer Costume and Apparel, this heartfelt homage is a call not only to act on that urge, but to confidently announce it to Allison Janney or anyone within earshot.

• Handmade by Theo Quest and Rachel Byland
• One of a kind
• Approx. 6 inches wide x 6.25 inches long x .25 inches deep
• String length: 3 inches
• Materials: Felt, foam, denim, string

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

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