Collection | Queer Designers/History

Celebrate LGBTQ+ history and designers with joyful home goods and empowering books for all ages.

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Book cover with vertical bands of eight colors making a rainbow with the words "queer" and "design" in white fields and black sans serif letters with an x between the two fields

Smithsonian Pride T-Shirt

Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Fan of an entire deck of playing cards each a different color in a richly hued gradient

Fredericks & Mae Playing Cards

Book cover features an iridescent texture similar to the oil films on water or soap bubbles. White stripe on the right edge includes the title, subtitle, and the author's name in purple font.

Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing

Gray book cover with a white spine, featuring black line drawings. White text overlaid reads: "Shantell Martin. Lines"

Shantell Martin: Lines

Book cover with black and white photograph of a figure whose back is to us but twisting their head back to us. The figure is wearing a dark lip shade and a lacy dark veil. Title in orange and black font to the left

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

Book cover featuring solid black background and six rows of seven small button pins (from top to bottom). Each button pin is different, also, they are set up in a rainbow color assortment , with red, yellow, pink, purple, green, blue, grey, and black pins.

Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons