Pride Factory

Left Gay Mart and went to Pride Factory, WOW what a huge difference. We were greeted the moment we walked in, the store was clean, well organized and selection was excellent. I got cool N2N underwear and a hoodie from MarcoMarco. Not sure why the bad reviews on here…

Okay.
So, a disclaimer of sorts … I’m a straight guy who was on a mission to buy 100 gay pride flags.
Let me explain.
You see, not only am I straight, I’m also the Executive Director for The Humanity Fund, an advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of speech and religion, especially the separation of Church and State.
The Humanity Fund believes in equal rights for all, with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.
And not only am I the Fund’s ED, I’m also the guy who invented the world-​famous Pabst Blue Ribbon Festivus Pole, and this year’s pole, in support of marriage equality, will be wrapped in the colors of gay pride.
Now you see where I am going?
So returning back to the store’s review.
1. Friendly, polite welcoming staff.
2. Lots of men. Wink!
3. It’s clean, merchandised well … seems that boy shorts and too small swimwear a big seller. Unfortunately, the red/​white/​blue speedo didn’t come in my size of Lumberjack.
4. I was amazed at the huge assortment of c**k rings. Luckily, they did have my size, «Blessed by mother nature.»
5. A nice assortment of adult «widgets». A few confused me a bit, so hopefully they came with an instruction handbook … and a vat of lube.
6. Onto the clothing section, as a former clothes’ horse, lots of nice stuff to chose from here.
Unfortunately for me, no gay pride flags, so my journey continues.

I recently ordered $ 225 of swim suits for my summer vacation. It was suppose to be delivered in 2 days, its now been 10 and still nothing. I am going to have to leave with nothing. If you’re not in Ft. Lauderdale then don’t waste your time with ordering product. They need to get their delivery arrangements worked out.

I was with two other lesbians and they were so rude to us. The place has changed. It’s a place for twinks. Which is fine but the old place was at least welcoming to women.
We will not return.

Sorry but they have really put me off. Been a long time customer and spend close to $ 500 a year there, or least I did. I will not shop there ever again. Last time I was there I bought a $ 40 pair of shorts. When I got home I realized that I had picked up the wrong size. No biggie I thought, I had never even tried them on, all the tags were there, and they look just like they did when I bought them. I put them in the car so next time I was in the neighborhood I could stop in to exchange them. I tried yesterday but now I couldn’t find the receipt. I went in to the store and went directly to counter with the shorts. The two associates could not be bothered to stop whatever they were doing to assist me and just yelled out «exchange». Someone did come over and I explained what had happened and that I only wanted to exchange sizes. He told me he would not let me do the exchange without the receipt. Now the shorts have their tag on them so that shows they came from the store, I was floored. Very bad customer service policy and I just can’t risk spending my money in a store that will not be there to help if something goes wrong.

Lot’s to see in this place. Everything from videos to underwear to lube. More expensive than Tropix video store. Staff was friendly. Glad to see a few of my Ty Lattimore Entertainment dvds in stock. Plenty of parking.

Very close to trendy Wilton Drive, but easy free parking! They have a HUGE selection of lubes with a testing station where you can smell it, taste it (flavored ones) and feel it… so I can make a better decision.
They have probably the best selection of adult DVD rentals, but even better is the selection of gay-​themed mainstream DVDs for rent and purchase. Movies that are hard to find and quite a few I didn’t even know existed!
The is no other store like it!

Pride Factory, in the location formerly of Catalog X, holds itself out to be America’s Gay Emporium and indeed it may be the East Coast answer to that. It’s big, almost warehouse looking, with gobs of clothing, swim suits, jock straps (mostly kink lite in appearance), a huge selection of lubes, a big and varied assortment of porn videos for rental and purchase, novelty items, dildos, leather lite items, some «video head cleaners,» and just about everything else. However, the prices aren’t warehouse. The leather items amateurish, few and more meant for novelty than for the real player; certainly not up the demands of my proclivities.
The other general items of clothing are of good name brand quality but definitely geared to the younger or twink patron and at prices I thought hefty compared to other shops in the area.
For the tourist, it’s well worth the stop since it is bigger and has a wider selection than most any other place in the state or, for that matter, in the south or along Coast. In fact it is just about as complete as anything found in New York post Giuliani.

Great store, tons of merchandise, good prices, great relaxed attitude.

If you’re looking for your LGBT necessities, with a little bit of everything, this is the place to go. It is HUGE. Probably 15,000 square feet of space with a little bit of fashion, a little bit of swim wear, a little bit of leather, a little bit of fetish, a large movie area, a little bit of play toys, and a little bit of high couture.
The fact that it carried a little bit of everything meant that it suffered a little on focus. But no problem. It has everything one could want in the middle of the Wilton Manors area, and a must-​see for the traveler and tourist. For sure, a ten-​fold comparison in size and quality to most everything we have out East except New York.

Meh… it was OK… it would’ve been more exciting if am a leather daddy but, i am not…
We stopped here on our way to Key West because I needed some speedos. Found this place online and it was easy to get to. The sore is neatly organized with a good variety of lubes and leather gear
But, the speedo and underwear section was lacking… they had a few varieties from all the popular brands but, where is the good stuff? Yes, they carry the standard favorites such as Andrew Christian, N2N, and GoSoftwear but, only a few styles in each brand.
I browsed through the swim wear section for about 5 minutes and decided I will rather buy board shorts from Wal-​mart than waste my time here.
They do have a good selection of leather gear though… if you are in to that kind of stuff!
The video rental section was well stocked… I just browsed through the videos and there were plenty of good titles…