The following list article contains the names and locations of LGBT bookstores, sorted by location. The bookstores listed are brick and mortar stores with a focus on the LGBT community and literature.
Europe
Austria
Bookstore Berg und Löwenherz with its café.
France
Les Mots à la Bouche in Paris.
Germany
Bookstore Erlkönig in Stuttgart.
Bookstore Prinz Eisenherz in Berlin.
Italy
Bookshop Babele in Milan (closed).
Bookshop Babele in Roma (closed).
Sweden
The Netherlands
- Boekwinkel Savannah Bay, Utrecht, the Netherlands[8]
Bookshop Vrolijk in Amsterdam (closed).
Bookshop Intermale in 1986 (closed).
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Bookshop Berkana in Madrid.
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- Category Is Books, Glasgow, Scotland[16]
- The Common Press, London, England[17]
- Gay's the Word Bookshop, London, England[18]
- Gay on Wye, Hay-On-Wye, Wales[19]
- Paned o Gê, Cardiff, Wales[20]
- Shelf Life, Cardiff, Wales[21]
- Proud Geek, Birmingham, England[22]
- Queer Lit, Manchester, England[23]
- The Bookish Type, Leeds, England[24]
- The Portal Bookshop, York, England[25]
- Lighthouse- Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop (formerly Word Power Books), Edinburgh, Scotland[26]
- Lavender Menace LGBT+ Books Archive, Edinburgh, Scotland[27]
North America
Canada
- L’Euguelionne Bookstore, Montreal
- Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, Vancouver, Canada[28]
- Spartacus Books, Vancouver[29]
Mexico
- Voces en Tinta, Zona Rosa, Mexico City
- El Armario Abierto, Mexico City
United States
- Antigone Books, Tucson, Arizona[30]
- Fabulosa Books (formerly Dog-Eared Books Castro), San Francisco, California[31]
- Charis Books & More, Decatur, Georgia[32]
- Unabridged Bookstore, Chicago, Illinois[33]
- Women & Children First, Chicago, Illinois[34]
- Firestorm Books & Coffee, Asheville, North Carolina[35]
- Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (Hosted by The LGBT Community Center), New York City, New York[34][36]
- Giovanni's Room Bookstore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[37][34]
- Book Woman, Austin, Texas[38]
- The Little Gay Shop, Austin, Texas (a marketplace for queer artists and creators with rare and collectible books and magazines)[39]
- Under the Umbrella Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah[40]
- Little District Books, Washington, DC[41]
- A Room of One's Own Bookstore, Madison, Wisconsin[42]
Librería Giovanni's Room en Filadelfia.
Bookshop Lambda Rising in Washington D. C. (closed)
Bookshop Oscar Wilde in New York. (closed)
Other
Closed bookstores
Europe
France
Germany
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
- Back To Brum, Birmingham, England
- First of May Bookshop, Edinburgh, Scotland[56]
- Lavender Menace Bookshop, Edinburgh, Scotland (now operates as a pop-up bookshop and LGBT+ book archive, see above)
North America
Canada
- After Stonewall, Ottawa, Canada (still open, but no longer primarily a bookstore)[57]
- Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto[58]ferme ses portes"]. Fugues, July 25, 2002.</ref>
- Librairie L'Androgyne, Montreal, Canada[59]
Cost Rica
- Libreria Nuestras Letras, San José, Costa Rica[60]
United States
- A Different Light, chain with locations in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco[64]
- Amazon. True Colors Bookstore, Minneapolis
- A Brother's Touch Bookstore, Minneapolis
- Decatur Street Bookshop, New Orleans
- Calamus, Boston, Massachusetts
- Dreams and Swords, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Faubourg Marigny Art and Books, New Orleans[34]
- Lambda Rising in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Rehoboth Beach and Norfolk (Virginia).
- Lobo Book Shop, Dallas, Texas
- Lobo Book Shop, Austin, Texas
- Lobo Book Shop, Oklahoma City
- Lobo Bookshop Cafe, Houston, Texas
- Love That Dares, San Francisco
- Old Wives Tales, San Francisco
- Oscar Wilde Bookshop, New York City[65]
- Outloud Bookstore, Nashville, Tennessee[66]
- Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Atlanta, Georgia, US[67]
- Query Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Sisters and Brothers, Albuquerque, New Mexico[68]
- Walt Whitman Bookshop, San Francisco
- Circus of Books, West Hollywood, California[69] Now only available online
- Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin[34]
- Wild Iris Books, Gainesville, Florida[70]
- Common Language Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan[71]
- Obelisk Shoppe, San Diego (California) (1992-2011)[72]
South America
- Otras Letras, Buenos Aires, Argentina[73]
References
- ↑ Austria, Buchhandlung und Buchversand Löwenherz, Vienna. "Löwenherz - die Buchhandlung für Schwule und Lesben in Wien - Online-Shop für Bücher, E-Books, CD, DVD, Zeitschriften und Kalender". Buchhandlung Löwenherz in Wien (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ https://motsbouche.com/
- ↑ "REPORTAGE. La librairie Vigna à Nice, un sanctuaire pour les bouquins LGBT+ et féministes". 13 August 2021.
- ↑ "Erlkoenig". www.buchladen-erlkoenig.de. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Prinz Eisenherz Buchladen GmbH - Der queere Buchladen in Berlin". prinz-eisenherz.buchkatalog.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-03.https://prinz-eisenherz.buchkatalog.de/
- ↑ "Chi siamo – Libreria Antigone" (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "PAGE 28 LGBTQ Bookstore in Malmö. Queer bookstore close to Copenhagen". Page 28 - HBTQ-bokhandel och kulturscen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Savannah Bay - Een oase van boeken in hartje Utrecht". Savannah Bay (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Księgarnia Stonewall - Grupa Stonewall" (in Polish). 2023-06-06. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Livraria Aberta" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Berkana, librería LGTBIQ+ - Página principal". www.libreriaberkana.com. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ http://www.libreriacomplices.com
- ↑ http://www.lifegay.com
- ↑ "ARCADOS Archiv / Bibliothek / Schwulenbewegung | schwule Fragen – Studien – schwule Antworten EMAIL: info@arcados.ch" (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "QueerBooks". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Category Is Books". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "The Common Press | Queer bookshop | The Common Press Bookshop, 118 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Gay's The Word | The UK's Oldest LGBT+ Bookshop | London, England". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "HOME". GOW. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Paned o Gê | Home". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Shelf Life Books and Zines". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Proud Geek | LGBTQ+ Bookshop". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Manchester's Award Winning LGBTQ+ Bookshop & Pride Store". Queer Lit. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "The Bookish Type - Independent Queer Bookshop in Leeds". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Shop". the-portal-bookshop.square.site. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Lighthouse | Home". Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Welcome". Lavender Menace. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ https://www.littlesisters.ca/
- ↑ https://spartacusbooks.net/
- ↑ https://www.antigonebooks.com/
- ↑ https://www.fabulosabooks.com/
- ↑ http://www.charisbooksandmore.com
- ↑ https://www.unabridgedbookstore.com/
- 1 2 3 4 5 Sheets, Cassie (March 11, 2016). "10 Amazing LGBT Bookstores Worthy of a Road Trip". Pride.com.
- ↑ https://firestorm.coop/
- ↑ https://bookshop.org/shop/bgsqd
- ↑ "Philly AIDS Thrift to reopen LGBT bookstore Giovanni's Room". The Inquirer. August 21, 2014.
- ↑ https://www.ebookwoman.com/
- ↑ https://thelittlegayshop.com/
- ↑ https://www.undertheumbrellabookstore.com/
- ↑ https://littledistrictbooks.com/
- ↑ https://www.roomofonesown.com/
- ↑ https://www.hares-hyenas.com.au/
- ↑ http://www.thebookshop.com.au
- 1 2 "Paris : Disparition de la librairie LGBT Blue Book".
- ↑ url=http://www.gayinlyon.com/actualite/etat-d%E2%80%99esprit-la-librairie-gay-definitivement-fermee
- ↑ https://www.gelderlander.nl/nijmegen/boekhandel-de-feeks-stopt-als-winkel~ab0f6e6c/. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ gaybars; gaybars.eu (2011-01-19). "Bookshop Intermale Closed". gaybars.eu. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Home". Vrolijk - Boeken & Films (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ ""Chá da Meia-Noite" de Sibila Lind traz-nos Jo Bernardo". dezanove.pt. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ http://antinouslibros.com
- ↑ https://www.gay.it/chiude-per-la-terza-volta-la-libreria-babele-di-milano
- ↑ http://www.laslibrerias.com/libreria-mira-sevilla/
- ↑ "Bilbao se convierte en referente gay con 43 locales 'que entienden'". 27 March 2007.
- ↑ Voss, Jon. "Grattis RFSL-Huset 20 år!". QX.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "The First of May Bookshop (1977 – 1990)". altedinburgh. 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ↑ "Stonewall won't hit a stone wall; LGBT bookstore avoids closing". Ottawa Citizen, December 21, 2012.
- ↑ https://www.gladdaybookshop.com
- ↑ "L’Androgyne ferme ses portes". Fugues, July 25, 2002.
- ↑ "Espacio".
- ↑ "The Last Chapter: A Look at LGBT Bookstores Around the World". 6 January 2012.
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/librerianuestrasletras
- ↑ http://nuestrasletras-cr.blogspot.com/
- ↑ Whiting, Sam (2011-04-22). "A Different Light gay bookstore in Castro closing". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ↑ Stewart, Chuck (2014). Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience [3 volumes]: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience. ABC-CLIO. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-61069-399-8.
- ↑ Raymundo, Oscar (9 January 2012). "Why We Need to Save the World's Last Remaining LGBT Bookstores". The Huffington Post.
- ↑ "Omnivore - Outwrite coffeehouse-bookstore closes permanently".
- ↑ "Sisters & Brothers :: The Southwest's Alternative Bookstore". 2003-12-24. Archived from the original on 2003-12-24. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ↑ https://circusofbooks.com/
- ↑ Jarrard, Sydney (March 26, 2015). "Despite Small Footprint, Wild Iris Delivers Big on Mission". American Booksellers Association.
- ↑ Reporter, Julia Ford Daily News (12 November 2018). "LGBTQ bookstore, Ann Arbor mainstay closes after 27 years". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ↑ "Obelisk Bookstore (San Diego) on GayCities".
- ↑ "Librería Otras Letras". Facebook.
Further reading
- GLBTQ Bookstores, American Library Association
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