List of LGBT bookstores

This is a list of LGBT bookstores. The bookstores listed are brick and mortar stores with a focus on the LGBT community and literature.

LGBT bookstores

Europe
  • Les Mots à la bouche, Paris, France
  • Librairie Vigna, Nice, France
  • Libreria Antigone, Milan, Italy
  • Buchhandlung Löwenherz, Vienna, Austria
  • PAGE 28, Malmö, Sweden
  • Libreria Berkana, Madrid, Spain
  • Libreria Complices, Barcelona, Spain
  • Antinous, Barcelona, Spain
  • Boekwinkel Savannah Bay, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Prinz Eisenherz Buchladen, Berlin, Germany
  • Buchladen Erlkönig, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Livraria aberta, Porto, Portugal
  • Księgarnia Stonewall, Poznań, Poland

UK
  • Category Is Books, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Common Press, London, England
  • Gay's the Word Bookshop, London, England
  • Paned o Gê, Cardiff, Wales
  • Shelf Life, Cardiff, Wales
  • Proud Geek, Birmingham, England
  • Queer Lit, Manchester, England
  • The Bookish Type, Leeds, England
  • The Portal Bookshop, York, England
  • Lighthouse- Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop (formerly Word Power Books), Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Lavender Menace LGBT+ Books Archive, Edinburgh, Scotland

USA

Elsewhere
  • Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, Canada[1]
  • L’Euguelionne Bookstore, Montreal, Canada
  • Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, Vancouver, Canada[1]
  • Spartacus Books, Vancouver, Canada
  • Voces en Tinta, Zona Rosa, Mexico City
  • El Armario Abierto, Mexico City
  • GinGin Store, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Fembooks (女書店) Taipei, Taiwan
  • Hares & Hyenas, Melbourne, Australia
  • The Bookshop, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia

Closed bookstores
  • After Stonewall, Ottawa, Canada (still open, but no longer primarily a bookstore)[3]
  • Amazon. True Colors Bookstore, Minneapolis
  • Back To Brum, Birmingham, England
  • A Brother's Touch Bookstore, Minneapolis
  • Boekhandel de Feeks, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  • Buchladen Männerschwarm, Hamburg, Germany
  • Der Andere Buchladen, Mannheim, Germany
  • Decatur Street Bookshop, New Orleans
  • Calamus, Boston
  • A Different Light Bookstore, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco
  • Dreams and Swords, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Faubourg Marigny Art and Books, New Orleans[1]
  • Lavender Menace Bookshop, Edinburgh, Scotland (now operates as a pop-up bookshop and LGBT+ book archive, see above)
  • Librairie L'Androgyne, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[4]
  • Libreria Babele, Milan, Italy
  • Libreria Nuestras Letras, San José, Costa Rica
  • 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
  • Lambda Rising Bookstore, Washington, D.C.
  • Old Wives Tales, San Francisco
  • Oscar Wilde Bookshop, New York City[5]
  • Outloud Bookstore, Nashville, Tennessee[6]
  • Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Atlanta, Georgia, US
  • Otras Letras, Buenos Aires[7]
  • Query Books, Minneapolis
  • Sisters and Brothers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US[8]
  • Vrolijk Boeken & Films, Amsterdam
  • Wild Iris Books, Gainesville, Florida[9]
  • Common Language Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan[10]
  • Esquina cor-de-rosa, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Walt Whitman Bookshop, San Francisco

References
  1. Sheets, Cassie (March 11, 2016). "10 Amazing LGBT Bookstores Worthy of a Road Trip". Pride.com.
  2. "Philly AIDS Thrift to reopen LGBT bookstore Giovanni's Room". The Inquirer. August 21, 2014.
  3. "Stonewall won't hit a stone wall; LGBT bookstore avoids closing". Ottawa Citizen, December 21, 2012.
  4. "L’Androgyne ferme ses portes". Fugues, July 25, 2002.
  5. 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.
  6. Raymundo, Oscar (9 January 2012). "Why We Need to Save the World's Last Remaining LGBT Bookstores". The Huffington Post.
  7. "Librería Otras Letras". Facebook.
  8. "Sisters & Brothers :: The Southwest's Alternative Bookstore". 2003-12-24. Archived from the original on 2003-12-24. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  9. Jarrard, Sydney (March 26, 2015). "Despite Small Footprint, Wild Iris Delivers Big on Mission". American Booksellers Association.
  10. Reporter, Julia Ford Daily News (12 November 2018). "LGBTQ bookstore, Ann Arbor mainstay closes after 27 years". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2019-10-07.

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