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The first A Different Light Bookstore opened at 4014 Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood in October 1979, followed by a branch in New York City's Greenwich Village in 1983 and a branch in San Francisco's Castro (489 Castro St.) district in 1985. [1]
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries is the oldest existing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organization in the United States [1] and one of the largest repositories of LGBTQ materials in the world. Located in Los Angeles, California, ONE Archives has been a part of the University of ...
Unabridged Bookstore: 1980 [28] [29] San Francisco, California: Fabulosa Books Dog Eared Books until 2021 [30] [31] 1992 [32] Seattle, Washington Charlie's Queer Books 2023 [33] Asheville, Carolina del Norte: Firestorm Books & Coffee: 2008 [34] Salt Lake City, Utah: Under the Umbrella Bookstore [35] 2021 [36] Washington, D.C. Little District ...
The Los Angeles Women's Community Chorus (LAWCC) was a Los Angeles, California based non-profit group from 1976 to 1990 and performed works written and arranged by women. The LAWCC used their platform to bring awareness about lesbian issues, feminism, and other local issues affecting the gay and lesbian community. [ 29 ]
Founded in 1952, One Institute (formerly One, Inc., and One Archives Foundation), is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the United States, dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ history and stories through education, arts, and social justice programs. [1] [2] Since its inception, the organization has been headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Casey McQuiston’s “The Pairing,” Julia Armfield’s “Private Rites” and Billy-Ray Belcourt’s “Coexistence” were among the favorite queer titles of booksellers and readers.
Circus of Books, also known as Chi Chi LaRue's Circus, is a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood, California. It was established in the 1960s as "Book Circus", and in the past also had branches in the Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks neighborhoods of Los Angeles .
Vroman's Bookstore is reportedly the oldest and largest independent bookstore by multiple news media reporters in Southern California. [1]The store hosts over 400 free community events a year including children's storytimes, trivia nights, craft classes, bake-offs, and launch parties, and has hosted such authors as President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, Irving Stone, Upton Sinclair ...