Gerber/Hart is excited to announce the return of 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 6th, 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 special prizes from our artists.

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

PLUS stop by the library for a special pop-up photo booth from PINK SAPPHO! Stop by during the event to take free, festive portraits together!

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).

Parking – if the Gerber/Hart parking spaces in the adjacent lot are full, please plan to park on the street. Howard Brown Health Center will be open during the market and parking spaces in the lot need to be reserved for patients. Ample street parking is available as well as public transportation.

Join us on December 6th to Make the Yuletide Gay!

Artwork by Jasjyot Singh Hans!
Gerber/Hart Booksale Prices

BOOKS*
-Paperback: $2.50
-Hardback: $4
-Bag: $25
-Box: $40

*Specially priced deals on:
-Rare Books
-Erotica (18+ customers only)
-Periodicals
-Mystery Date with a Book gifts
-DVDs/VHS Tapes
-And More!

In addition to great deals on LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ fiction, non-fiction, and more, our 18+ customers can enjoy deals on erotica.
2025 Queerkindlmarkt Vendors

Gerber/Hart Library & Archives – select merch from Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Library & Archives!

Gerber/Hart Volunteer Artist Table – Current Gerber/Hart volunteers will be selling their personal artwork at the market, including Nie Dos, Scott Potis (@roughsongmegamix), and Eira (Eir Botanica, @eirbotanica)

Anne E. Terpstra Pottery – I sell mid-century inspired ceramics for the home and garden, and I’m an author of a sapphic romance as well.

Anthony Park Kascak – Ceramic Magnets, functional objects, and some dog-related sculptures

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.

Chicago Queer Creations (18+ Vendor) – I will have handmade collage wall art, greeting cards, and ceramics!!

Christopher Williams – Handmade ceramic objects, with funky images and colorful glazes.

David Jay Collins – Signed paperbacks (Gaybash, the Summerdale trilogy, and Single & Cooking) and related merchandise.

Coma Theory (18+ Vendor) – We are an independent artist duo self-publishing zines, comics, and art prints!

Cookies & Conversations – Queeries, Ice Breaker Bingo Cards, Gourmet Cookies

Em Assarsson – I sell a variety of handmade ceramics, from sculptural and decorative with glazes, to functional. I make all of my own glazes and specialize in crystalline glaze wall hangings.

Germ (18+ Vendor) – Germ is a sex positive jewelry and art business created for queers, freaks, sluts and sex workers made by a queer sex worker. Their work consists of things like vibrator and ashtray earrings, butt plug magnets, pervy prints and silversmithed jewelry.

Jasjyot Singh Hans (18+ Vendor) – I’ll be selling original erotic art+ riso and screen printed artwork + zines

Kirin Kane – Kirin Kane creates decorative and wearable art using ceramics, metalworking, and printmaking. Wares available include cups, mugs, bowls, mini sculptures, relief prints, and sterling silver rings, all handmade in Chicago, IL.

Marina Walinski Designs – I make sterling silver jewelry inspired by vintage designs and colorful geometric enameled copper jewelry. I prioritize size inclusivity with my rings, with current stock ranging from sizes 2.5 to 16

Milk Crate Print Studio (18+ Vendor) – screen printed art and apparel for faggy dykes and dykey fags

Olly Costello Creative Practice – I am an illustrator exploring themes of community building, social transformation, abolition and belonging. I sell reproductions of my images as prints, cards, stickers, pins and more.

Pink Sappho – Stop by the library for free photos from a photo booth run by Pink Sappho! Pink Sappho is a sapphic social club that curates events around three core pillars: authentic connection, wellness, and education. Each event touches on at least one of these pillars, with the goal of offering our community new ways to build and sustain relationships with one another. Our Ambrosia photobooth began as an interactive activity to foster connection in our own space, but over time it has grown into a service we now offer to others who wish to do the same.

Riotous Roots – Earrings (dangly and plugs), gender & disability affirming stickers, zines, prints

Saumitra Chandratreya (18+ Vendor) – Accessible risographs, and other printmaking forms like cyanptypes in various sizes depicting queer culture, protest slogans, and generic holiday messages

Sew to Speak – cross-stitch and embroidered pieces, with occasional collage prints/earrings

Spank Bank (18+ Vendor) – Sexy Snowglobes, kinky keychains, dick pic lockets, masturbation magnets, lusty lighters

Talon Kinkworks (18+ Vendor) – We make sexy queer embroideries, keychains, magnets, jewelry and more!

Trikone Chicago – We are selling some zines, hopefully stickers, posters, and postcards.

Women & Children First Bookstore – Assorted books with a feminist and queer focus!

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