Which Store Has The Best Pride Merch? 

To get amazing LGBTQ flags, books, pins, jewelry, magnets, clothing, and more while supporting our educational work, please go to professorpridestore.com/.

2:50 all of hot topic's net proceeds from their collection go to the trevor project edit: most of their pride merch is also available all year round (which I feel should've been included in the questions), and there's way more in store for pins than online. I'd also argue that selling merch in anti-lgbtq areas is a good thing, because it can help influence those people towards a less bigoted attitude.

The fact that Disney did the gender thing on their website made me laugh a bit today. Thanks ^-^

6:06 I love the "-1" under Disney for the "Have They Used Political Influence To Help" category

Hottopic should get a bit more credit on the merch side. I got a really cute genderqueer pin from them (which I absolutely love), multiple bi, trans, and pan pin designs, and they sell all these year round rather than just at pride month Target also improved this year, at least the one I went to. They had ace pan and trans candles, and nb, trans, queer, and genderqueer socks, a historical shirt with a trans woman of color on it, and a 'gender is a social construct' shirt. I enjoyed looking around the collection area there

I'm Demisexual-Biromantic so we often get left out🤣💙 but on a side note Spencers IS an adult shop and sells literally sex toys in the back of the store. So I ofc don't.expect them to have kid stuff. And Hot Topic sells stuff year round. Not just in June. There is much more artist made stuff and pins in the store than on the website (which is always lacking)

Also, individual people just giving straight to the lgbtq chairties has generally been much better. What i spend at these stores will at most only end up being a couple dollars at charity. But i can afford to. If u cant, just focus on helping yourself until you can. Gl yall

I mean, it kinda makes sense Spencer’s doesn’t have kid’s stuff, have you looked at the back of the store?

You realize Spencer's is mostly and adult novelty shop, so kid stuff would be limited anyhow

The real answer is none of them are the "best" because pride was always, and still is anti-corporation. There's no shame in buying pride merch to express yourself, especially if the company is a little more ethical, but if you really want to support lgbtq+ related charities it's always better to donate directly, and for merch, you could look towards local or online independents, if you can afford the added price of buying local.

skittles is an AMAZING brand to support, they give up their rainbow each june + work w lgbtqia+ artists for their branding each year, along w artists of color as well, and they partnered w glaad this year (might have done it in previous years iirc, but not sure), so if ur looking for someone to support, TOTALLY support them

I do like Target, they’re at least *trying.* They’re doing something to help, and I do appreciate that

To be fair Spencers isn't really a store for kids.

Hot topic has pride merch year round♡

I stopped by target this year and they had some scented candles with little bits of LGBTQ+ history on them, which I think is cool!

I will say that it might not be best to judge certain companies on all of these categories. For example, spencers is an adult store, so it makes sense that they would be lacking in kids merch. Hot topic is mostly a clothing store, so I wouldn’t expect to find any books there, on any topic, not just lgbt history/struggles. Other people have also pointed this out, but in store at hot topic, there’s a much better selection of pride merchandise, it’s available year round, and they donate all proceeds on pride merch to the trevor project.

Spencer’s pride collection infuriates me. Not only is it not size-inclusive, but every shirt is a crop-top, which is horrible for someone like me with body/gender dysphoria. They’ve been getting called out on their social media ads, but they haven’t made any sort of statement or increased the amount of sizes or styles available.

I came here mostly looking for a rundown of places with good/interesting Pride merch in order to see what might be out there, but I feel after watching this list that this was almost entirely done by searching what was offered online (which often differs greatly from what's available in-store), and that the comparison points also feel really disingenuous when you consider that the breadth of stores here isn't just apples and oranges, but apples and kumquats. You're comparing Disney, a company that's almost entirely devoted to providing merchandise tailored to children first and foremost, to Spencers, an adult novelty shop that sells horror movie merch, weed and alcohol-themed products, and sex toys. You're comparing Target, Walmart, and Kohls, a bunch of generalist stores (two of which sell everything from clothing to groceries), to Michael's, an arts and crafts supply store that's not primarily about selling prefabricated merchandise, but about selling the materials to make whatever you want. You're looking at Hot Topic, a predominantly clothing-centric and novelties store, and expecting them to sell educational books. And you're comparing all of these to two organizations entirely devoted to being educational about the LGBTQIA+ community, giving charitably back to the community, and creating merchandise for the community. None of these things is truly like the other. If you'd limited your comparisons to "Do they offer a breadth of product, particularly outside of generic rainbow LGBTQIA+ merchandise?" and "Do they donate to LGBTQIA+ charities?", plus looking at "How long have they continuously supported the LGBTQIA+ community?", I wouldn't see this as quite so disingenuous a list, but the insistence on rankings centered around "does this store have child-appropriate merch?" or "does it provide LGBTQIA+ educational material?" when you're also deliberately ranking stores that wouldn't have a children's section, or wouldn't have a book section regardless of month just serves to sour me on this entire list. It's not logical nor fair to put criteria into a grading rubric if there's multiple of the stores being graded who wouldn't have any reason for that item/product to be available in their catalog as a matter of course.

Happy pride month we all support you!

Hot topic has some really cute LGBTQIA+ buttons, along with some subtle LGBTQIA+ stuff if you haven't come out to people yet. I got this cute pin that said "the rainbow sheep of the family" With a cute little sheep with rainbow wool, and I love it! (My mom still hasn't noticed what that means lol) they also have nice asexual pins.

7:42 Spencer's isn't a store for kids, it's for adults, so them not having kids stuff makes sense

I want to mention red bubble, a lot of the pride stuff on there is made by LGBTQIA+ people so you would be directly supporting them, you can always check their profile if you want to know if they are or just an ally

No mention of Target having binders? (I can't shop there anyway since I'm not in the US, but a lot of people have been talking about it). How about Cloak? I find the way you're presenting Michael's a little odd... the point of a craft store is to make your own stuff, not to have premade merch. I got a really cool unfinished wooden welcome sign with a chevron design in the background that I painted in the colours of the progress flag to hang on my front door. You could make tons of tshirts and stuff from there that suited your own needs easily.

you forgot pan and genderfluid/nonbinary on your website too! i need some representation.

I feel like Hot Topic shop get a bit more credit as they have pride stuff year-round and not just in June and at check-out they'll ask if you want to round up your cost to donate to a charity that changes constantly (this can be mental health agencies, food banks, and LGBTQ+ organizations)

I know a youtuber (Tomska) who has THE BEST pride merch

“Even though straight people get to groom our children the rest of the year” LOL, as a masculine trans women this is comedy

Aroace agender here and I see nothing for that anywhere... Would be cool to rock some gear this month to express this but... Hard to when nothing is readily available and I have to pray internet sites will actually send me what I ordered (I've watched too much yt videos plus personal experience with working in retail of people ordering something online and not getting it/it's the wrong thing). Maybe something to look into, eh?

In defense of Spencer's not having any kid's merch, it's not really a store aimed at kids. Half the stuff is s3x after all.

I reached New levels of joy today while playing RecRoom. They added a Genderfluid (closest ima get to fluidflux) and Aromantic hoodies. MMMMM

I work in a Kohl's store. Our Pride display is a bit small-ish, but it's Texas so what do you expect? The thing I was most disappointed in was that, at the very front of the rack on the Pride display were these cropped tank tops with just a little flag where a breast pocket would go. The small flag? Is it a rainbow? Is it non-binary or a flag from anyone who is actually PART of the LGBTQ+ community? Nope. It's an ally top. It's the LGBTQ+ Pride display, and they thought "you know who really belongs here? Who this month should really be celebrating? The straight people who aren't assholes and are supportive of queer people being allowed to exist as they are."

Honesty, I love Disney Movies and Shows. But i hate the "Disney Brand" because of its exclusion of LGBTQ+ characters, and one of their most recent (And one of their best) shows, The Owl House, Had its third season cut to three long episodes. Dana and the team are doing an amazing job with the few resources and little time they have left thanks to Disney's money grabbing executives.

I feel like Spencer's should get a little leeway on not having kids' Pride merch simply because I'm not entirely sure it'd be appropriate for them to have kids' stuff regardless because like. The store has Adult toys in it. Both online and in brick and mortar stores. I kind of don't want to bring kids into stores that sell Adult toys, ya know? Edit: autocorrect stop helping by picking the wrong corrected word!

It's called ebay

I haven’t ever been able to celebrate so I am excited.

Wait i thought theres going to be a new studio it looks pretty much the same

11:02 Hot Topic, Spencers, and Kohl's don't sell books because they're literally clothing stores- but I understand where they're coming from

I love the shade he just throws into the intro, priceless.

You know something is wrong with this rating system when Walmart gets ranked above Spencer's lmao. At least Spencer's sells pride stuff year round

Happyyy pride month!!!!! This my first pride month part of community.

Happy pride month !

You should definitely add a score for having lgbtq+ merch year round.

As much as I enjoy Disney animations from throughout the generations. I'm also not surprised that the company ranks lowest. Also thank you very much for the useful infos

PBR has the best pride merch!

i think the reason why spencers doesn’t have anything for kids is bc it’s kinda an adult store

Yo Matt I don’t know if you’re still reading comments but I got a Matt Walsh ad promoting the Daily Wire and I was wondering if you’d be able to get rid of the ad on your videos because I keep seeing them on a lot of your videos unfortunately. Thanks!

at 3:55, the other thing about the fact veterans get a day and the month of november, they are actively congratulated/thanked for their sacrifices and people are never like "omg! you're a veteran?! that's gross!!" so really, for a community with little to no respect of course we get a month happy pride!

Okay to be fair Spencers isn't exactly a store where you go to get things for your kids

Happy pride month

I bought pride Oreos that say proud on the cookie

my thing with spencers and the kids merch, its not exactly a store thats meant to sell to children

With Spencer’s the reason there no kids merch is because their more of an adult store. Idk if you’ve been one but in the back it’s kinda questionable?- at my Spencer’s most bad stuff is hidden but there’s still dirty stuff that is pg

Disney made a big mistake cancelling The Owl House smh 😤

The first sentence: which company has the best pride merchandise Me: you guys ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🥰

You know it's sad when during the month of rainbow capitalism, the only thing you're able to get at any store for pride is a rainbow on a stick. Which was probably unrelated given it was in the children's birthday section

Thanks for doing the work on these companies and giving sources.

I have a bi shirt from target, a pride sip cup from Michaels, and I made my own bi pin for my school bag!

For Target, I've personally seen a little more representation from them in terms of inclusive merchandise. There was even a skirt with the genderfluid flag's design (albeit upside down), as well as a few nonbinary and trans shirts. Dunno if that's the state I'm in or what, but I was pleasantly surprised!

I don't think it's fair to dock points on Spencer's for a lack of children's merchandise, as it's not really a 'kids' or 'everyone' store

For the Target one, I would have to disagree. I went to Target just the other day and saw a tutu/skirt with the genderfluid flag and a Non Binary pair of socks.

Gay news: Disney made there first queer couple

Hot Topic should get a higher score, they offer lgbtq+ stuff all year round of many different sexualities (funny how PBR got the most points :/)

7:43 I understand why Spencer's would *not* sell anything for children so I don't think that should really be a point against them, but i distinctly remember seeing several necklaces featuring the intersex flag when I went last pride month, and I saw it in the physical store. I haven't shopped there this year in store or online so maybe it's just not in this years collection, but that would be really weird since I know I saw it included last year.

I wish I could find more polysexual murch

I still haven't forgive Disney telling Alex Hirsch that he couldn't have any LGBTQ+ characters in his show

Bungie always sell pride pin each year and 100% money goes to LGBTQ+ charities. This is how big companies should do not just give crumbs.

Disney pride merch: *non-binary stuff* Also Disney merch: man or woman?

i’m buying whatever looks cool 💀 i ain’t looking at 16 questions

I worked for Kohl’s in 2009 and can say that Kohl’s had insurance supporting LGBT+ adoption and surrogacy for LGBT couples. I don’t know if that matters but my store manager was gay and that’s why she stayed with the community because they were one of the first communities to have that and she could add her partner to the insurance before marriage was legal.

I don’t even know why I’m watching this, it’s not like my homophobic parents would let me buy pride stuff anyways :,]

I'm aromantic and heterosexual I'm also an lgbtqia community supporter

I’m very confused, I went to hot topic (before June) and they held way more then just that. They had multiple of each listed label, except maybe queer, and even had more than what this person listed. I’m not trying to say they’re lying by any means just genuinely confused.

Waaaaaaait a damn minute hold the fuck up cause WHY are you rating companies on how long they have supported us?!? That just seems wrong. What if the reason why they haven't been supporting us is because they had an executive or someone else important that was keeping them from supporting us?! What if they finally saw the error of their ways and came around to us?! Nuh uh honey this is disgusting and the kind of shit that REALLY makes me afraid to come out of the closet! As long as they show they actually support us, what difference does it make?! This is the main reason why i unsubbed from this channel a while ago. People like this person saying this kind of shit is the reason WHY people HATE us. Its not that they're homophobic anymore, i mean some of them are but, THIS is the main reason people hate us and the whole "woke" community.

5:58 IM CRYING AT DISNEY'S POLITICAL INFLUENCE SCORE

I'm upset with Target. It feels like a downgrade from last year. Online could had different categories to look up the different products for each identity, asexual, trans, etc, but this year, it's all grouped up together and there are less Ace products.

for me it boils down to "includes lesbian flag" and "doesnt include lesbian flag" lol

Wait target only had trans books and nothing else? But I got trans socks from target??

A Target store near where I live has some LGBTQ clothes. It's mainly t-shirts. They have a shirt that has the trans, intersex, asexual, aromantic, and a few more, that spells out "Proud 365" I bought it last year and I really love it. The rest are either rainbows, or individual flagged shirts

Spencer's isn't a kids store though it's teenage and young adult like hot topic

Y'all only have Ace/Aro. I'm not Aro... =/

Bro, in Cali, if you go into any one of these stores, there’s a crap ton of variety in their collections

11:40 I lol'd hard at the additional -5 for Disney. xD

There’s no pan merch in your store ;-;

Ha! Disney. You're funny.

I do not think it should really matter how much a company donates to The LGBTQIA+ Community so long as it is a decent amount

The hot topic in Calgary actually does give some money to the Trevor project and they have a great lgbt selection

I dislike Disney's pride marcha because Its a pride flag with a black Mickey mouse siluete slapped in front of it as if Its blocking the flag

My local walmart doesn't have a lgbtq pride section, but it does have an American pride section (makes sense given I'm in a southern state)

5 below is noice

Ngl i thought this was an ad

"Disney Pride merch" sounds like the biggest oxymoron humanly possible.

I will say my 5 and below pins are very snazzy

Do you have any merch for aromantic people aroace people, demi boys and demi girls?

Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 I changed my RU-vid profile picture to a pride flag background

My own thoughts: Spencer's: 4/5. Good, but I hate having to go inside as a minor. Had to get the talk thanks to the sex toys in the back. Target: 5/5. Really improved this year, even had omnisexual, which is rare for truly pandering companies, AND they keep fighting for us in other ways, most notably all-gender bathrooms (not just family ones) Hot-topic 3.5/5. all their stuff falls apart, even clothing. Too much bi pan, trans, and NB, not enough mlm, wlw, ace/aro, or genderfluid. All-year round is nice though. Disney: 0/5. Got sued IN JUNE for being homophobic and is known for pandering. I always kinda hated them for being cheap, obvious, and over-rated, but this is the last straw. Gay man and trans women aren't the only identities. Boxlunch: 3.5/5. Not as much as hot topic, but I did get a spongebob shirt that donated to cakeworthy, so that's nice. Wal-mart: 1/5. Hardly tried, but once in a blue moon you MIGHT see something in June in a liberal area, even though human rights shouldn't be up for political debate.

1. Isn't Spencer's more an adult store? Hence they don't have kid pride stuff? 2. They always leave out genderfluid 😓

hot topic loses some points for me as a lesbian in terms of pride merch because their pride designs have not been updated in a REALLY long time, so most (if not all!) of their pride merch still has the lipstick lesbian flag, ESPECIALLY online. what if i don't want to use that flag because i am not a lipstick lesbian?

maybe you shoud make a video outlining the IN STORE pride collections, oh and maybe next time your at spencers look in the back part of the store,

I went to Spencer's for pride gear. They took donations for the lgbtq community in which they had a flag that was colored for multiple sexuality and gendered people. I signed the trans portion of course. Also, I've bought stuff at target, micheals, and hot topic. At ea h store there was some stuff. Spencer's in Portland, or was the best for trans stuff, it may be an issue of customers seeking thing. 🤔 if more people go in and ask for lgbtq stuff it may pressure them to get on board.

To be fair to Spencer's they don't really sell kids anything. Spencer's is called Spencer's Adult Gifts for a reason lol.