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NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
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BOOKSTORE ON GAY LIFE IS A VICTIM OF TOLERANCE
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How aggrsively to regulate New York Cy’s sex shops has been a sensive matter for elected officials, cludg the gay policians who reprent Chelsea. They are ught between gay rints who see the shops as a qualy-of-life issue and want them shut and gay patrons, who say a crackdown would be a return to the days when the police raid their bars and social clubs to timidate and huiate gay men. The uncilman reprentg Chelsea, Corey Johnson, who is gay and a strong advote for gay rights, has avoid takg a public stand on the issue.
The shop, which ters primarily to gay boasts a signifint llectn of lgerie and toys, pl thoands of DVDs you n enjoy a private booth the back of the store (but you'll have to enjoy them alone—there's no sex allowed there). New York Cy has a huge gay scene, and ’s arguably the most culturally signifint the world. After all, was at NYC’s Stonewall Inn where an outbreak of ristance agast opprsive police accelerated the gay rights movement to a cril pot.
The days, most of the gay bars and clubs are centered around Hell's Kchen but you'll also fd gay scen Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and Brooklyn. Young men and women talk about how the books on those shelv answered their qutns and helped them shape their after 18 years as one of the natn's largt gay and lbian bookstor, A Different Light closed s doors at 151 Wt 19th Street Chelsea yterday.
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And gay books began to move more to the mastream, as tl like Randy Shilts's ''And the Band Played On'' and Andrew Tobias's rerelease of ''The Bt Ltle Boy the World'' beme creasgly no means are there few gay and lbian bookstor Manhattan.
On Christopher Street, between Gay Street and Greenwich Avenue, stands Osr Wil Bookstore, probably the olst gay and lbian bookstore the gay and lbian bookstor are a relatively new ncept. Osr Wil opened s doors 1967, two years before the Stonewall uprisg and three years before New York Cy's first Gay Pri Para. Those and other gay bookstor have played a signifint role both as targets of antigay hate and as symbols of pennt thought, nonfictn and s peak, wh 20, 000 tl, 5, 000 square feet, a readg room and a movie theater, A Different Light was nsired among the natn's largt gay and lbian bookstor.
''The bookstore is like a pillar, a huge stutn for the muny bee got the reers of a whole lot of different wrers off the ground and illumated this genre of publishg throughout the untry, '' said Troy Masters, the publisher of Lbian and Gay New York, a newspaper that sublet some of A Different Light's space when the bookstore fell on hard tim the late 1990' add: ''There is hardly anythg that do more for civil rights than lerature and journalism, and A Different Light's role that was signifint.