Coffee gay

If you’re a coffee drinker and looking to do the same, here’s a list of LGBTQ+ owned coffee brands bringing more diversity to the coffee industry. Charles Wilkin and Martin Higgins are the queer royals behind 2 Queens, a shop in Narrowsburg, New York that offers coffee, tea, and honey. According to NNN, iced coffee is gay because: portability (cute cups), easy consumption (it’s cold) and customization (you can pump it full of sugar, or sugar-free syrup that is definitely not.

our coffee was built on a mission to serve quality coffee for quality humans. reminding you every morning to be yourself! creating something we wished to see growing up: one that’s loud, proud, and intentionally queer. about us. coffee made by us for humans like us. @gayawakeningcoffee. Sh*t You Should Care About. Our Story. Contact/FAQ. According to Internet and pop culture, iced coffee in particular is the signature queer drink.

As Alim Kheraj wrote in GQ, “Essentially, iced coffee has become a queer avatar, and a way for gay people to signpost themselves against the uniformity of heterosexuality.”. Queer Coffee sources high-quality, organic, fair trade coffee beans and supports LGBTQ+ causes along the way. Our beneficiary right now is the Campaign for Southern Equality, fighting for the legal and lived rights of LGBTQ+ southerners.

I absolutely love coffee. I love to wake up to the smell of coffee in the morning, and I almost always go by Starbucks for a cup of coffee before I teach my night class. It always gives me that extra pep which helps me keep my students engaged in the classroom. I have always believed that an enthusiastic teacher is one who has the best chance of keeping students interested, but I digress from my original topic which is coffee.

There is a new coffee company catering to the gay coffee lovers, and quite honestly we know that many gay people love coffee, just walk in any Starbucks or coffee shop and you should know what I mean. The Gay Coffee story begins in , in Northampton, Massachusetts — a small, progressive college town.

After working in coffee shops throughout her undergraduate career at Smith College, coffee aficionado Melissa Krueger opened up a tiny cafe in a former ATM kiosk, on a quiet downtown street adjacent to campus. She called it the Elbow Room. The cafe soon became a local landmark, the ideal place to meet a friend, take a one minute vacation over an espresso, and chat about the events of the day.

The Elbow Room Cafe patrons grew into a family, and word spread about the tiny cafe with the best coffee in town. She purchased a small commercial drum coffee roaster and set about learning the craft of coffee roasting herself. Each night after the Cafe closed, she disappeared into the small roastery behind her house and, like a mad scientist, roasted late into the night perfecting each bean.

With her partner Mary, she traveled to rural Nicaragua to meet coffee growers and hear their stories. And four years later, unable to keep up with demand for her coffee, Melissa sold the little Cafe to purchase bigger equipment and pursue a new career as a full time coffee roaster. A few months after launching her new coffee roasting company in early , Melissa and Mary were musing one morning — over coffee, of course!

Watching the images of couples marrying on television, Melissa and Mary toasted the screen and smiled at one another with their cups raised. With a clink, the idea for Gay Coffee was born.

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At the intersection of a historic moment in gay civil rights, and over the morning ritual of sharing a cup of exquisite coffee, Gay Coffee was conceived as the perfect integration of these two powerful themes. Gay Coffee celebrates ourselves, our history, and our unique contribution to the world. Melissa continues to roast each batch by hand in her Williamsburg, Massachusetts studio and cups every roast of Gay Coffee before it is packaged.

She, Mary, and the crew at Gay Coffee hope you enjoy these unique, vibrant coffees as much as they enjoy bringing them to you, one cup at a time. Rather than simply tap into queer culture for the camp value, each package of Gay Coffee is also informative. Every blend named after an aspect of gay culture also includes a description of its place in LGBT history. A brand name with such obvious ties to the LGBT community might have made some entrepreneurs nervous, but Krueger says the idea that her coffee could be controversial was never an issue.

Aside from perpetuating the unique legacy of queer culture, a percentage of all profits from Gay Coffee are also donated to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. However, it was also important to Krueger that her company be mindful in another way as well. I love the topics of your blogs and the time and thoroughness with which you share your insights. Well done. And I love coffer too! A real success story.. Nice post!

The coffee culture in Melbourne is prominent, and last time I stepped into Starbucks was 3 years ago.