About Us

The Queer Penguin was first thought up pre-covid when two best friends decided to attend their city’s local pride parade and simply did not find any good LGBTQ themed tshirts/outfits online.

Globally, we observed that clothing sold online to the queer community is almost always a targeted pride-month marketing gimmick, temporary and cheap, plastered with rainbows because rainbows are apparently all that is gay. How deeply tragic and unimaginative. While there are many small businesses doing their best to make an impact, we have nowhere near made as much progress as we should have in terms of having a wider, and better, range of choices.

The queer community deserves to be spoilt rotten with options as much as any other group, and Shipra and Shehnaaz founded TQP to fill this very gap.

Like most things gay, TQP started as an experiment in a college dorm between two best friends.

Hey, a design experiment – what did you think? :p

We sat together and came up with pun after pun that we would love to see on a tshirt. We’ve come a long way since then, and are very proud of the life we breathe into these designs with our first-hand understanding of queerness and a deep empathy for our audience and their needs, wants, and experiences.

Do you identify as part of the community? Are you friends or family with someone who does, and do you want a sweet way to let them know you accept and support them? Are you out loud and proud, or are you looking for a quiet way to affirm your identity? Whoever you are and however you identify, at TQP you are welcome, safe, and celebrated.

We promise that our tshirts belong in your closet – not you :p

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Email - thequeerpenguin@gmail.com