Gerber/Hart is excited to announce QUEERKINDLMARKT! This will be a combination booksale along with a queer artist market featuring local artists and makers!

Stop by 6500 N Clark Street on Saturday, December 7th, from 10 AM – 4 PM, to get your holiday shopping done, support local queers, and find your next LGBTQ+ read!

Suggested $5 donation at the door to support Gerber/Hart! This donation will also enter you in a raffle for a very special prize from Chicago Queer Creations.

This booksale will be almost entirely used LGBTQ+ books. However, we will have some “cream of the crop” straight books for sale as well – though less than in past booksales. Our 18+ customers will also be able to shop for erotica and visit 18+ vendors.

Accessibility: This event will take place on the second floor of 6500 N Clark Street. There are stairs just inside the entrance (by the Walgreens) as well as an elevator (down the hall, past the Howard Brown front desk).

Full vendor details coming soon! Stay tuned and join us on December 7th to Make the Yuletide Gay!

2024 Queerkindlmarkt Vendors

Gerber/Hart Library & Archives – select merch from Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Library & Archives! And some special commissioned Queerkindlmarkt pieces from Chicago Queer Creations!

Anne E. Terpstra, Potter & Author – Anne is a Chicago potter who throws functional and decorative work for the home and garden. Her holiday-specific ceramics include trees, luminaries, and ornaments, and her Pride line is available year-round. She is also an author, and signed copies of her sapphic novel, Beyond Any Experience, will be available for purchase.

Anthony Park Kascak – A variety of functional sculptural and ceramic pieces that reference and are inspired by fantasy, personal narratives, and Korean history.

Chicago Queer Creations – Handmade ceramic goods! Functional, aesthetic, and colorfully maximalist- each one is unique!

Christopher Williams – My work is focused on storytelling through colorful handbuilt ceramic objects. These pieces are both functional and sculptural, showing fantastical scenes plays on the imagery of medieval manuscripts, prairie landscapes, and classical figure painting.

COMA THEORY – COMA THEORY is a two-person independent press & zine-making operation. We make art, comics, poetry and whatever else we feel like.

Cookies and Conversations – Delicious Cookies in all sorts of flavors. We will have vegan and sex positive sugar cookies designed as well. There may even been a brookie making an appearance with the order ahead holiday gift box option

David Jay Collins – Signed copies of Gaybash and Summerdale, Summerdale front-and-backward T-shirts, Summerdale Crunch caramel corn from Candyality

Early to Bed – EtB will be vending some very giftable adult wares! Toys to treat yourself as well as products to share with your lover/s.

Eliza Fernand – Witchy queer ceramics and soft sculptures, quilty bags, iron-on patches, riso print posters and zines

Em Assarsson – I sell sculptural and functional ceramics that feature glaze work out of glaze I have created myself. I make wall hangings, planters, mugs, candle stick holders, and more bits and bobs!

Germ – Germ is a sex positive jewelry and art business created by Gillian Marwood, a nonbinary sex worker. They create funky earrings of miniature things from vibrators and pride dildos to ashtrays with little joints and cigarettes, and recently started incorporating silversmithing into their work.

Haymarket Books – Stop by the Haymarket Books table and grab a free radical book to add to your library or share with a loved one!

Jasjyot Singh Hans – I will have original erotic artwork including some work that is more fetish-costume themed, minimal ink nude drawings and some framed collage mini-drawings of BUTTS! I will also have a few erotic art prints, as well as a zine BEACH BUMS, filled with live drawings done at the Hollywood Beach.

Kirin Kane – I’ll be selling tablewares, vases, boxes, rings, earrings, bracelets, and prints made with a combination of ceramic, metal, and relief printmaking. All work is designed and made entirely by me in Chicago, IL.

Leather Archives & Museum – Fetish holiday gifts from the Museum Shop

Marina Walinski Designs – I make handmade sterling silver jewelry, usually incorporating various crystals and gemstones. I also do some enamel work, which uses copper. Many of my items have a vintage or semi-fantasy aesthetic.

Moorbuzzard – Moorbuzzard is a queer, autistic duo making kinky embroideries, keychains, paintings, and other small goods.

Olly Costello Creative Practice – I sell high quality reproduction prints, greeting cards, enamel pins, stickers and my 2025 Calendar ‘CRITICAL CONNECTIONS: Deepening in the Relationships and Commitments that Will Shift Our World’

Oona Taper – Risograph print posters, zines, and screenprints.

Rafael Solís – A selection of paintings.

Riotous Roots – Stickers: Gender & Disability Affirming. Earrings: Delicious *sweater, ampersand, and pretzel* dangle earrings and plugs sizes *4g – 7/16*. Grounding Coupons: Buy a 30 – 45 virtual grounding session for yourself or a loved one. These sessions are for queer/trans/nonbinary folks who want/need some facilitation bodymind presence with themselves <3

Saumitra Chandratreya – Screen prints on paper, screen printed scarves, Cyanotype prints, stickers, ornaments.

Sew to Speak – Sew to Speak offers hand-stitched pieces for your queer, feminist and/or neurodivergent sensibilities. I hope you find a piece of home decor that makes you feel safe and seen.

Sishi – Handmade jewelry, small sculpture, windmill, and other fun objects

Spank Bank – Your one stop horny gift ship! Come & get your Sexy Snow Globes, Kinky Keychains, Dick Pic Lockets & more.

Tori Small – BONDED – BONDED by Tori are unique staple jewelry pieces that are more than just jewelry to wear, but rather an experience and guidance for you to create your own world. Each piece, handcrafted with stainless steel, many with gemstones, combines boldness with beauty, inviting you to restyle, remix, and make each piece yours.

Trikone Chicago – Our table will feature postcards with archival images of Chicago’s South Asian LGBTQ+ community members collected by Ankit Khadgi, curator of “People Who Came Before Us”. We will also have prints, buttons, and stickers by Star, a Chicago-based South Asian artist.

Women & Children First Books – Selections of books & merch from our queer & feminist bookstore!

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