This is a list of LGBT bookstores. The

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s listed are brick and mortar stores with a focus on the

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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

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, Edinburgh, Scotland

USA

* Antigone Books, Tucson, Arizona *

Charis Books & More Charis Books & More is an independent bookstore located in Decatur, Georgia. The store is the oldest independent feminist bookstore in the Southern U.S. Charis Books was founded in 1974 by Linda Bryant and Barbara Borgman in the Little Five Poin ...

, Decatur, Georgia * Unabridged Bookstore, Chicago, Illinois * Women & Children First, Chicago *

Firestorm Books & Coffee Firestorm Books & Coffee is a worker-owned and self-managed "anti-capitalist business" in Asheville, North Carolina. Named after the firestorm, this infoshop operates with an eye on creating a sustainable, radical community event space. Firestor ...

, Asheville, North Carolina * Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (Hosted by The LGBT Community Center), New York * Philly AIDS Thrift at

Giovanni's Room Bookstore Giovanni's Room Bookstore is a gay bookstore in Philadelphia. It is the oldest gay bookstore in the United States still operating and has been called the "center of gay Philadelphia, Philly". Founded in 1973 in Philadelphia, Giovanni's Room Book ...

, Philadelphia * Book Woman, Austin, Texas * The Little Gay Shop, Austin Texas (A marketplace for queer artists and creators with great rare and collectible books and magazines) * A Room of One's Own Bookstore, Madison, Wisconsin * Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee, Milwaukee * Fabulosa Books (formerly Dog-Eared Books Castro), San Francisco * Little District Books, Washington, DC

Elsewhere

* Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, Canada *

Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, also known as Little Sister's Bookstore, but usually called "Little Sister's", is an independent bookstore in the Davie Village/ West End neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The bookstore wa ...

, Vancouver, Canada * 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) * 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 *

Lavender Menace Bookshop The Lavender Menace Bookshop was an independent bookshop in Edinburgh from 1982 to 1986. It was the first LGBT+ bookshop in Scotland and the second in the United Kingdom. As of 2019, the Lavender Menace now operates as The Lavender Menace LGBT+ ...

, Edinburgh, Scotland * Librairie L'Androgyne, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"L’Androgyne ferme ses portes"
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'', July 25, 2002. *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 The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was a bookstore located in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood that focused on LGBT works. It was founded by Craig Rodwell on November 24, 1967, as the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. Initially located at 291 Mer ...

, New York City *Outloud Bookstore, Nashville, Tennessee *Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Atlanta, Georgia, US *Otras Letras, Buenos Aires *Query Books, Minneapolis *Sisters and Brothers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US *Vrolijk Boeken & Films, Amsterdam *Wild Iris Books, Gainesville, Florida *Common Language Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan * Esquina cor-de-rosa, Lisboa, Portugal *Walt Whitman Bookshop, San Francisco

LGBT bookstores

Europe

UK

USA

Elsewhere

Closed bookstores

References

Further reading