Pride month is just around the corner, and now is the perfect timing for businesses to express their allyship to the LGBTQ+ community. We’d like to introduce ourselves, and some great ways you can support our community, and nearly 300 2SLGBTQ+ artists, small businesses and nonprofits!

Who is Flamingo Market? Flamingo Market was originally founded by Jack Shinton and Sica Saccone as Toronto's only independent Bi-Monthly market for LGBTQ2SIA+ Artists, Makers, Businesses and Nonprofits. When COVID-19 outbreak happened, our community was hit hard with in-person events being cancelled. So many of our communities artists, gig workers and small businesses were suddenly without work - we knew we couldn’t give up, and that we had to pivot to a virtual space. Flamingo Market created an online international multi-vendor marketplace, truly made by and for the community! We launched our online presence in 2020 - giving our vendors access to a fully functional online shop - and access to three LGBTQ2SIA+ owned brick & mortar retail spaces! We offer flexible PWYC fees for our vendors who are facing financial barriers. We are proud to say, we’ve had over 300+ vendors in our first year online! 

Check us out: WWW.FLAMINGOMARKET.LGBT 

We feature, promote and foster the diverse small business and artisan talents our LGBTQ2SIA+ community has to offer from all around the world! We connect our vendors with paid opportunities like having their merchandise in retail spaces: Glad Day Bookshop, BiStitchual and The QUILTBAG; paid workshops and we even curate company swag bags with partners such as: Egale, Fido and Pride Toronto! We won 1st place in the Toronto Star in 2020 for Best Local Flea Market, and Silver in NOW Magazine in 2020 for Best Online-Only Retailer. We have been seen all throughout the media OutTV, Huffington Post and She Does The City!

Now - here’s where you can help LGBTQ+ businesses thrive! We’ve created a Flamingo Market Virtual Shopping Guide featuring 50+ of our vendors to support during Pride month to promote them and we want to really get the word out for our Pride Guide - launching June 1st! Check out our previous gift guides here:Flamingo Market Holigay Gift Guide / Flamingo Market Sweetheart Gift Guide

Our previous Shopping Guides have been seen 7,000 times with 18,000 impressions spread wide across Canada, the US and the UK - and we are expecting those numbers to grow significantly for our Pride Guide! We're well known over socials too, check us out on: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter

Would you like to sponsor our Flamingo Market Virtual Shopping Guide? Check out what’s included for our sponsors in our Sponsorships package!