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This June 2023, the leading queer fetish lifestyle brand Nasty Pig is partnering with Nordstrom for a pop-up store at the iconic New York City flagship location (225 West 57th Street). While this pop-up will feature several different brands, Nasty Pig will be the “anchor tenant."

In celebration of Pride month, Nordstrom is partnering with the leading queer sex-positive lifestyle brand Nasty Pig for a pop-up at their iconic NYC Men’s Store location (NYC 235 West 57th Street) starting on June 15.

"This sex positive lifestyle brand started out in their Chelsea apartment during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. Today, Nasty Pig is a globally recognized LGBTQ+ brand for the gay community—everyone from Adam Lambert to Andy Cohen, John Cameron Mitchell and even Madonna have worn their brand." Read Full Article

"Nasty Pig co-founder David Lauterstein talk about how he and his husband got started in the 90s and why they were recently honored at the White House." Listen to Podcast

The fashion brand Nasty Pig will be celebrating its 30th anniversary next year, as will its two co-founders, Frederick Kearney and David Lauterstein, who met that year. From a $50 investment it has grown into one of the most recognizable LGBTQ+ fashion brands whose easily recognizable logo can be seen on their underwear, jockstraps, jeans, shorts, T-shirts, and swimwear.

"Started in 1994 in a tiny 64-sq ft store in Chelsea by boyfriends David Lauterstein and Fred Kearney, with only fifty dollars clothing brand Nasty Pig has morphed into a global sensation. Now twenty-eight years later those boyfriends – now husbands – are taking their company to the next level."

"I was terrified of coming out of the closet in 1992 because being gay seemed pretty fucking scary thanks to AIDS. Despite all the safe-sex messaging, the idea that being intimate with another man could lead to my death was still a pretty pervasive reality with which I had to grapple."

"It has been 25 years since David Lauterstein and his partner Frederick Kearney first founded Nasty Pig in response to the gay stigma that spurred from the AIDS epidemic."