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GAY NEW ORLEANS
* gay bookstore new orleans *
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first gay bookstore the Uned Stat, New York’s Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop. Founr Craig Rodwell served as the vice print of New York’s chapter of the Mattache Society, an early homophile anizatn, but longed to nnect more directly wh everyday gay men and lbians the cy.
Upon openg 1967, his storeont served as the first explicly gay public meetg space outsi of bars and bathho, and quickly beme a popular hub for the emergg culture of what would soon flower to the gay liberatn movement.
After the Stonewall Rebelln of 1969, gay bookstor began appearg across North Ameri ci wh substantial gay populatns.
IT'S A BETIFUL DAY THE GAYBORHOOD
While known for gay bars, gay-owned bs and ftivals like Southern Dence and Mardi Gras, New Orleans LGBTQ anizatns clu active nonprofs and polil groups. * gay bookstore new orleans *
Both LGBTQ and femist bookstor—servg overlappg but distct nstuenci—gradually emerged creasg numbers, cludg a handful the South: Fbourg Marigny Art and Books opened s doors 1978, servg as a facto muny center for the New Orleans gay muny, while Whe Rabb appeared Greensboro, North Carola 1983 and went on to open addnal lotns Raleigh and Charlotte. Yet, even as LGBTQ polil movements gaed momentum and muni garnered creased visibily, the bookstor would largely succumb—not to homophobia, but to enomic and technologil chang.