Big Gay Ice Cream

10/11/2022

Ran into La Newyorkina at NYC Comic Con this weekend and couldn’t resist stopping for a Pink Limeade Paleta 🍦

10/10/2022

Gotta say, our Big Gay Ice Cream Limited Edition Sundaes are kinda fire

Just ask, well, everyone 🍦

10/10/2022

Gotta say, our Big Gay Ice Cream Limited Edition Sundaes are kinda fire

Just ask, well, everyone 🍦


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10/09/2022

Team Rocket? More like
Team Big Gay Ice Cream 😎 Our Sally C specialty cones are the cat’s Meowth

Want to play a game with us? The first three cosplayers to find our
Big Gay Ice Cream ambassador, Mckeilla, tomorrow at Comic Con get a free trucker or sundae! Hope you can find us 😎

10/09/2022

When our Sally V truckers can bewitch even Geralt of Rivia 😏😏

Want to play a game with us? The first three cosplayers to find our
Big Gay Ice Cream ambassador, Mckeilla, tomorrow at Comic Con get a free trucker or sundae! Hope you can find us 😎

10/09/2022

When there's trouble, you know who to call 😈🍦

Want to play a game with us? The first three cosplayers to find our
Big Gay Ice Cream ambassador, Mckeilla, tomorrow at New York Comic Con get a free trucker or sundae. Hope you can find us 😘

10/09/2022

Where in the World is
Big Gay Ice Cream? We're at
NYC Comic-Con, serving specialty cones, truckers and sundaes!
Come visit us all weekend for Salty Pimps, Monday Sundaes, and our
Limited Edition Blue & White sundae.

05/27/2022

Stickers have entered the building! We are ice (s)creaming to finally announce our limited edition sticker collaboration with our friends at Stickerbeans! These dazzling beauties are available for purchase in our Seaport store starting 5/27!

05/27/2022

This weeks flavors of the week are: Tang &
Grape Kool-aid! Available in stores until Thursday, June 2nd!

05/19/2022

This weeks flavors of the week are: Tang &
Dulce de Leche! Available in stores until Thursday, May 26th!

05/12/2022

This weeks flavors of the week are: Raspberry Margarita &
Key Lime Pie! Available in stores until Thursday, May 19th!

05/05/2022

This weeks flavors of the week are: Raspberry Margarita &
Cherry! Available in stores until Thursday, May 12th!

01/27/2021

“With great sadness, but with no regrets,” Bryan and Doug have decided that Big Gay Ice Cream will not be reopening its East Village and Philadelphia locations.

125 East 7th Street was our first shop and where Big Gay Ice Cream became more than just our summer hobby. Big Gay Ice Cream Truck had become a legitimate success, so in 2011 we decided that was what we were supposed to do with our lives. We signed the lease, quit our day jobs and built ourselves a perfectly imperfect hole-in-the-wall soft-serve joint.

In its hey day that section of East 7th Street was one of the hottest food blocks in the city. For almost a decade our shop hummed along, putting Salty Pimps in the hands of folks from Tierra Del Fuego to Lapland. It made many people, including us, very happy.

But now the batteries have gone a bit dim on that street. Empty store fronts, the result of both rising rents and the COVID-19 pandemic, have settled in. Many great businesses have closed. It ain’t what it was. As a seasonal business with no indoor seating we recognize that the location will never truly recover. Therefore, we have decided to call it.

1351 South Street in Philadelphia was our first location outside New York City. That location opened in 2015 after a few years of us doing special events in the city. We had five fun years at that location, but it too has become another COVID closure. We hope to return to a new Philadelphia location. For now, we’ve put the entire shop in storage.

Fortunately, we have reopened both our Upper West Side (516 Columbus Avenue) and West Village (61 Grove Street) locations. We encourage you to visit those locations to help us get through this tough winter season. We are continuing to work with our South Street Seaport landlord on the best strategy to reopen that location.

Thank you all for making wonderful memories at our first shop, and thank you to the East Village for having us. We hope to be able to open a new location in the East Village or Lower East Side at some point in the future. Until that happens, goodbye East 7th Street. So long and thanks for all the calories.

January 27, 2021

10/17/2018

So... this, only at our Philadelphia shop. It's really, really good. Seriously. Thanks for the tease, PhillyVoice!

Yea or nay to Doritos-flavored ice cream?

08/22/2018

Philadelphia shop only: dulce de leche ice cream rolled in Fiddle Faddle. You like Chicago popcorn? Get it at home! Available 'til Sunday night.

08/18/2018

PHILADELPHIA: swing by today, 11am-4pm for . Take home an awesome new best friends and have some ice cream too. Adoption fee are waived, so just come hungry and ready to fall in love. 1242 Lombard.

04/08/2018

We love Marc Vetri and will follow him to the end of the earth! His new charitable mission is Vetri Community Partnership whose school lunch and nutrition education programs are active in more than 70 sites in Philadelphia and Camden, serving more than 7,500 students. If you are in the mood and position to attend this fundraiser, we'll see you there. http://vetricommunity.org/eat-to-empower/

04/05/2018

Philadelphia: our friends at Moonstone Preschool.org are auctioning off a great prize: a birthday party at our shop! Pretty much the best idea ever, I think.

04/01/2018

Emma found our pints at the Wawa in Headhouse Square!

We are starting to show up in Wawas all over PA and NJ. If you see our pints at one please post a photo and let us know what location found them at. Thanks!

03/29/2018

The ice cream machines in our Philly shop have pretty k***s. The other stores have plain ol’ black ones.

I hope the next time you visit you see these and think to yourself- wow, those are some awesome k***s.