List of LGBTQ bookstores

The following list article contains the names and locations of LGBTQ+ bookstores, sorted by location. The bookstores listed are brick and mortar stores with a focus on the LGBT community and LGBTQ literature.

Open bookstores

Asia

CountryCityNameOpening YearImage
 Taiwan Taipei GinGin[1] 1999[2]
 Taiwan Taipei Fembooks
(女書店)
[3]		 1994[4]

America

CountryCityNameOpening yearImage
 Canada Toronto Glad Day Bookshop[5][6] 1970[7][2]
Vancouver Spartacus Books[8] 1973[9]
Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium[10] 1983[11]
 Costa Rica San José Nuestras Letras[11][12] 2010[13]
 United States New York, New York Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (BGSQD) 2012[14]
Yu & Me Books 2021[15]
bookstore in chinatown with red awning that says yu & me books in white
Yu & Me Books Storefront
The Nonbinarian Bookstore 2024[16]
Hive Mind Books 2025[17]
Gladys Books & Wine 2025[18]
Tucson, Arizona Antigone Books[19] 1973[20]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Giovanni's Room Bookstore[21] 1973[11][22][23]
Decatur, Georgia Charis Books & More[24] 1974[25]
Marietta, Georgia The Lavender Bookshop[26] 2024
Madison, Wisconsin A Room of One's Own[27] 1975[2]
Austin, Texas Book Woman[28] 1977[29]
The Little Gay Shop[30] 2019[31]
New Orleans, Louisiana Frenchmen Art and Books[32][33]
Previously Faubourg Marigny Art and Books		 1978[34]
Chicago, Illinois Women & Children First 1979[35]
Unabridged Bookstore 1980[36][37]
San Francisco, California Fabulosa Books
Dog Eared Books until 2021[38][39]		 1992[40]
Seattle, Washington Charlie's Queer Books 2023[41]
Asheville, North Carolina Firestorm Books & Coffee 2008[42]
Salt Lake City, Utah Under the Umbrella Bookstore[43] 2021[44]
Washington, D.C. Little District Books[45] 2022[46]
Tallahassee, Florida Common Ground Books[47] 2023[48]
 Mexico Mexico City El Armario Abierto[49] 1998[50]
Somos voces[51][52][53]
Voces en Tinta until 2012		 2005[2]

Europe

Country City Name Opening Year Image
 Germany Mannheim
Cologne		 Der Andere Buchladen[54][55] 1978[56]
Berlin Prinz Eisenherz[6] 1978[57][2]
Stuttgart Erlkönig[58][6] 1983[59]
 Austria Vienna Berg und Löwenherz[60] 1993[61]
 Spain Madrid Berkana[62] 1993
A Different Life[63]
Mary Read[64] 2020
Plastic Books[65] 2024
Barcelona Antinous[66] 1997
La Raposa[67] 2017
Acció Perifèrica[68] 2022
 France Paris Les Mots à la Bouche[69] 1980
Paris Violette and Co[70] 2004
Nice Librairie Vigna[71] 2011
 England London Gay's the Word[11][6] 1979[72][2]
The Common Press[73] 2021[74]
York The Portal Bookshop 2019[75]
Birmingham Proud Geek[76] 2020[77]
Leeds The Bookish Type 2020[78]
Manchester Queer Lit 2021[79]
Manchester Gay Pride Shop 2014
Darlington The Queerish Bookshop 2023
Durham Bookwyrm 2022
 Scotland Edinburgh Lavender Menace Bookshop[80]
Now also an archive		 1982[81]
Lighthouse[82] 2017[83]
Glasgow Category Is Books[84] 2018[85]
 Wales Aberystwyth Gayberystwyth Books[86] 2023
Cardiff Shelf Life[87] 2019[88]
Paned o Gê[89] 2020[90]
Hay-On-Wye Gay on Wye[91] 2023[92]
 Italy Milan
Rome		 Antigone Books[93] 2016[2]
 Netherlands Utrecht Boekwinkel Savannah Bay[94] 1975[95][2]
 Portugal Porto Livraria aberta[96] 2021[97]
 Sweden Malmö PAGE 28[98] 2020[99]
 Switzerland Basel Arcados[100] 1974[101]
Bern Queerbooks[102][103] 2013[104]
 Poland Poznań Księgarnia Stonewall[105] 2015[106]

Oceania

CountryCityNameOpening yearImage
 Australia Sydney Sappho Books[107]
Melbourne Hares & Hyenas[108] 1991[2]

Closed bookstores

Asia

CountryCityNameYearsImage

America

CountryCityNameYearsImage
 Argentina Buenos Aires Otras Letras[109][110] 2009 to 2013[111][112]
 Canada Montreal Librairie L'Androgyne 1973 to 2002[113]
Ottawa After Stonewall[114]
Now also an art gallery		 1990 to ¿?
 United States Austin, Texas Liberty Books[115][116][117] 1986 to 1996[118][119]
Ellis Island, New York Adonis Books[120][121][122] 1967 to ¿?[123]
New Orleans, Louisiana Beckham's Bookshop[124][125]
No longer focusing on LGBT+ books		 1967 to ¿?
New York, New York Oscar Wilde Bookshop[6][126] 1967 to 2009[127][128]
Bluestockings Bookstore[129] 1999-2025
Two people smile and give a thumbs up in front of a bookstore with a large sign that says Bluestockings, books, cafe, activist center in white
Minneapolis, Minnesota Amazon Bookstore Cooperative[130] 1970 to 2012[131]
A Brother's Touch Bookshop[132] 1983 to 2014[133]
Dallas, Texas
Austin, Texas
Houston, Texas		 Lobo Bookshop[134] 1973 to 1988[135]
1986 to 2004[135]
Washington D. C.
Baltimore, Maryland
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Norfolk, Virginia		 Lambda Rising[136][137] 1974 to 2008
1984 to 2008
1991 to 2010
1996 to 2007[138]
San Francisco, California Paperback Traffic[139] 1972 to 1982[120]
Old Wives Tales[140][141] 1976 to 1995[142]
Walt Whitman Bookshop[143][144] 1978 to 1980[120]
Noe Books and News[145] 1980s a ¿?[120]
Love That Dares[146] 1987 to 1988[120]
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
New York, New York		 A Different Light[120] 1979 to 2009[11]
1985 to 2001[11][147]
1983 to 2011[148]
Bloomington, Indiana Dreams and Swords
Previously Aquarius Books		 1986 to 1988[149]
Houston, Texas Wilde 'N' Stein[150][151][152] 1977 to 1986[135]
Inklings Bookshop[153][152] 1988 to 1997[135]
Crossroads Market[154] 1992 to 2002[135]
San Diego, California Obelisk Shoppe[155] 1992 to 2011[11]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee[156]
Previously Afterwords Bookstore and Espresso Bar		 1993 to 2023[157]
Atlanta, Georgia Outwrite[11][158] 1994 to 2012[159]
Nashville, Tennessee Outloud[160][161] 1995 to 2010[162]
Boston, Massachusetts Calamus[11][163][164] 2000 to 2016[165]
West Hollywood, California Circus of Books[166]

Europe

CountryCityNameYearsImage
 Germany Hamburg Männerschwarm[167] 1981 to 2015[168]
Frankfurt Oscar Wilde[169] 1994 to ¿?[170][171]
 Scotland Edinburgh First of May Bookshop 1977 to 1990[172]
 Spain Barcelona Cómplices[11] 1994 to 2022[173]
Bilbao Safo de Lesbos[174] 2005 to ¿?[175]
Seville Librería Mira[176][177]
Valencia El Cobertizo[178] 1997 to 2004
 France Paris Blue Book[179] 2003 to 2008[6]
Lyon Etat d'Esprit[180] ¿? to 2009
Marsella Les Mots pour le dire[179] ¿? to 2008[6]
 Italy Milan La Babele[181][182][183] 1987 to 2012[184]
Rome 1993 to 2009[184]
 Netherlands Nijmegen De Feeks[185][186] 1977 to 2022[187]
Amsterdam Intermale[188] 1984 to 2011[189][190]
Vrolijk[191][192]
Now online		 1984 to ¿?
 Portugal Lisbon Esquina Cor de Rosa[193] 1999 to 2006[6]
 Sweden Stockholm Rosa Rummet[194][195][196] 1981 to 2001[197]

Oceania

CountryCityNameYearsImage
 Australia Sydney The Bookshop Darlinghurst[198] 1982[199] - 2025[200]

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