Salt-and-pepper diamonds used to be a hard sell according to the jewelry designer Lori Linkous Devine. “They were the reject diamonds back in the day,” said Mx.
Devine, the founder of Lolide, who uses a gender neutral courtesy title. The stones’ gray color and mottled clarity were seen as flaws.
Mx. Devine, who lives in Seattle, has been making jewelry “for every gender and gender identity,” as she put it, since 2010.
In 2016, she began to advertise her products specifically to L.G.B.T.Q. customers. “It was after Trump was elected and I had a whole breakdown,” Mx.