Meet Your Makers!
Spread Queer Cheer!
These local LGBTQ+ makers will help you get in the holiday spirit, whether you're looking for one-of-a-kind gifts or to stock up on stocking stuffers and support a good cause. Every dollar you spend goes directly to queer-owned businesses, organizations, and artists.
don gay apparel.
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eat. drink. be merry.
Nicole Carrier (she/her) Throwback Brewery Co-founder Nicole is also Throwback's Marketing Guru, Chief Realist, and card-carrying M.B.A, handling marketing, business strategy, social media, and technology. Last year, Nicole launched Lady Sausage – Throwback’s sassy lineup of sausage, salami & apparel for anyone who loves bad puns and sophomoric humor as much as they love good eats. |
Emmett Soldati (he/him) Teatotaller The proprietor of Teatotaller, Emmett will be serving up boba (bubble tea) at the event! Check out #DoorstepBoba for Somersworth- & Concord - area deliveries, now including juice, chai & other treats! Give a Teatotaller gift certificate or buy their tea at ChaiCurious.com. |
Annette Lee (she/her) Throwback Brewery Throwback co-founder Annette is also the Head Problem Solver, Chief Optimist and a certified MIT card-carrying engineer (which every good brewery needs!). If you're looking to throw back a beer or two before the event, you can order beer to go. Or find Throwback beer near you. |
Tchukki Andersen (she/her) Patti & The Pop Tarts A beginner marimba band that pops up in fun places to play! You can join this beginner band and pop up in fun places, too. More information at https://fwhatzamarimba.com/patti-and-the-pop-tarts FB: @fwhatzamarimba |
deck the halls.
Connie DiSanto (she/her) Earthforms pottery Ceramic artist from the NH seacoast creating wheel thrown and hand built work in porcelain and stoneware. earthformspottery.com IG: @earthformspottery 
Rachel Kobasa & Pilar Nadal (she/her) & (she/her) Pickwick Independent Press Pickwick Independent Press is a community of printmakers located in downtown Portland, Maine. We share space and equipment to create our work and collaborate on projects to educate and activate our communities. Our members work in a variety of mediums including letterpress, screen printing, risograph, and intaglio and print everything from tiny cards to giant broadsides. We love and believe in the power of print! |
Greg Clements (he/him) NUBBLE LIGHT CANDLE CO. Born and raised on the coast of Belfast, Maine. After stints in Boston and Manhattan, I've been lucky enough to now call Kittery my home. I've developed my craft of candle-making over years of trial and error to create the best Maine-made candles. Preorder on nubblelightcandle.com and select "Holigay Mini-Market" at checkout. 
Stefania Metalious (she/her) Fetsmetali Arts Librarian /Artist who loves experimenting. Unpredictable creating happens in my 1930’s auto garage, on North Hampton home land with deep roots. Recently, piecing together Toolbox Magnets, and scrunching recycled cardboard tubes to find faces in them. My allfamily will get some very weird ornaments for their trees this year. (Maybe yours will too!) |
Cynthia Velásquez-Owens (she/her/they/them) Multimedia Artist Located in Kittery, ME. For sale: terracotta clay trays (ashtray size and shape, variety of small and large trays), holiday linocut prints (5”x7”), “Homefronts” clay magnets (3”x3”; single and framed options) IG: @cyyynthiavelasqqquez cynthiakvelasquez.com 
Jenna Ward & Ilyssa Sherman (she/her) & (she/her) Lovering Health Center The Lovering Health Center will be selling small bundles of reproductive and sexual health merch along with crocheted feminist ornaments and other handmade items. Grab the perfect gift for the reproductive justice advocate in your life! You'll also have the opportunity to chat with Lovering staff about abortion care, gender-affirming hormone therapy, birth control, STI testing, and more! |
Alison & Alyssa (she/her) & (she/her) Penumbra Alison and Alyssa are wives and owners of Penumbra located at 10 N. State St. in Concord, NH. We will be selling plants and more! We carry plants, plant accessories, and gifts for any occasion. Penumbra specializes in hardy plants and we'll have a small selection of tough babies. Alison loves stationery, so we'll be bringing a sample of our cards and stationery. Alyssa is our sticker boss, so we'll bring some of her favorite stickers also. 
Julia Bald (she/her) Woolderness Felting Needle felting is the painstaking process of sculpting wool with a barbed needle. Based in Beverly, MA, Julia has been needle felting for the past two years under the name Woolderness Felting. Her work includes animal totems, ornaments, and other decorative items made from wool. |
& make the yuletide LGBTQ+!
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Ocean Cocco (she/her) author I'm an author published under the name "Ocean" (oceanldy.com), which is what I'm also known by in the Portsmouth community where I live. I have published novels in a variety of lesfic genres, including romance, urban fantasy, and action thrillers. Ocean will be signing books at the event and will have books for sale at Throwback. Pre-orders also available from Amazon. |
Lane Lloyd (she/her) Coyotesnout I am Lane! I live in Durham with my wife and our animal friends, and run The Nest in Derry. I’ll be bringing my linocut prints, stickers and notebooks, as well as lots of vintage and used LGBTQ interest books, and some other fun vintage goods! Etsy: etsy.com/shop/Coyotesnout IG: @coyotesnout |
Janelle Drake (she/her) Affirming Spaces Project Janelle is the Logistics Team Leader at the Affirming Spaces Project (ASP). Based in Somersworth, ASP helps businesses & organizations across New Hampshire develop and maintain welcoming and affirming environments for patrons, visitors and employees of all genders. ASP will have stickers, pins, and small flags (perfect for stocking stuffing!) for sale. |
Cecilia Kiely (she/her) The Outboard Cecilia started The Outboard, a little newsletter with big dreams, in 2016. To help our one-lesbian volunteer team expand its capacity (& put on more events!), The Outboard is now accepting tips via Venmo (@theoutboard). We're also always looking for events/news tips (via email). Both are much appreciated! Cecilia is excited that you actually read this whole thing & hopes she'll see you at Throwback! |