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Contents:
- GAY CHIGO
- SHOP TALK: FALLY, A BOOKSTORE FOR GAYS AND LBIANS
- RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
GAY CHIGO
* chicago gay bookstore *
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Carrie Bart never met the person who first helped her accept her homosexualy. I cid my subject would be homosexualy. “And there wasnt much about lbians the books–hardly anythg; they mostly documented homosexual men.
SHOP TALK: FALLY, A BOOKSTORE FOR GAYS AND LBIANS
“The first gay book I ever read was Faggots [Larry Kramer’s novel about New York gay life], when me out the late 70s. And of urse there was John Knowl’s A Separate Peace and The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren–and After Dark magaze, ” he s, rellg the now-funct glossy entertament publitn that tered oh-so-discreetly to a gay male sensibily.
RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
The story’s the same for most gay men and lbians: before they bee sexually active or even jt emotnally volved wh boyiends and girliends, their real–sometim only–iends are books. So a safe place to fd gay lerature be not jt a shoppg stop but a haven.
Chigo, as polil activists have poted out, is the only major cy whout civil rights protectns for gays and lbians; ’s also, until now, been the only cy whout a bookstore voted to lbian and gay lerature. “People ask , ‘How are you gog to fill a whole store wh gay and lbian books? He pots out that addn to the numero gay oriented tl published by major prs–a velopment of only the last 15 years or so–there are a dozen publishg firms specializg gay and lbian books.
Many of the alternative prs market their product through mail-orr distributn, placg ads gay and lbian newspapers and magaz.