List of LGBT 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 literature.

Open bookstores

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Asia

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Country City Name Opening Year Image
  Taiwan Taipei Gin Gin[1] 1999[2]

America

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Country City Name Opening year Image
  Canada Toronto Glad Day Bookshop[3][4] 1970[5][2]
Vancouver Spartacus Books[6] 1973[7]
 
Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium[8] 1983[9]
 
  Costa Rica San José Nuestras Letras[9][10] 2010[11]
  United States Tucson, Arizona Antigone Books[12] 1973[13]
 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Giovanni's Room Bookstore[14] 1973[9][15][16]
 
Decatur, Georgia Charis Books & More[17] 1974[18]
Madison, Wisconsin A Room of One's Own[19] 1975[2]
 
Austin, Texas Book Woman[20] 1977[21]
The Little Gay Shop[22] 2019[23]
New Orleans, Louisiana Frenchmen Art and Books[24][25]
Previously Faubourg Marigny Art and Books
1978[26]
 
Chicago, Illinois Women & Children First 1979[27]
 
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 Books[37] 2022[38]
 
  Mexico Ciudad de México El Armario Abierto[39] 1998[40]
Somos voces[41][42][43]
Voces en Tinta until 2012
2005[2]

Europe

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Country City Name Opening Year Image
  Germany Mannheim
Cologne
Der Andere Buchladen[44][45] 1978[46]
 
Berlín Prinz Eisenherz[4] 1978[47][2]
 
Stuttgart Erlkönig[48][4] 1983[49]
 
  Austria Vienna Berg und Löwenherz[50] 1993[51]
 
  Spain Madrid Berkana[52][53] 1993[54]
 
A Different Life[55][56]
Mary Read[57] 2020
Barcelona Antinous[58] 1997[59]
La Raposa[60][61] 2017[62]
Acció Perifèrica 2022[63]
 
  France Paris Les Mots à la Bouche[64][9] 1980[65][2] o 1981[66]
 
Nice Librairie Vigna[67] 2011[68]
  England London Gay's the Word[9][4] 1979[69][2]
 
The Common Press[70] 2021[71]
 
York The Portal Bookshop 2019[72]
Birmingham Proud Geek[73] 2020[74]
Leeds The Bookish Type 2020[75]
Manchester Queer Lit 2021[76]
Manchester Gay Pride Shop 2014
Darlington The Queerish Bookshop 2023
Durham Bookwyrm 2022
  Scotland Edinburgh Lavender Menace Bookshop[77]
Now also an archive
1982[78]
Lighthouse[79] 2017[80]
Glasgow Category Is Books[81] 2018[82]
 
  Wales Aberystwyth Gayberystwyth Books[83] 2023
Cardiff Shelf Life[84] 2019[85]
Paned o Gê[86] 2020[87]
Hay-On-Wye Gay on Wye[88] 2023[89]
  Italy Milan
Rome
Antigone Books[90] 2016[2]
  Netherlands Utrecht Boekwinkel Savannah Bay[91] 1975[92][2]
  Portugal Oporto Livraria aberta[93] 2021[94]
  Sweden Malmö PAGE 28[95] 2020[96]
  Switzerland Basel Arcados[97] 1974[98]
Bern Queerbooks[99][100] 2013[101]
  Poland Poznań Księgarnia Stonewall[102] 2015[103]

Oceania

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  Australia Sydney The Bookshop Darlinghurst[104] 1982[105]
 
Melbourne Hares & Hyenas[106] 1991[2]

Closed bookstores

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Asia

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Country City Name Years Image
  Taiwan Taipei Fembooks
(女書店)
Now online[107]
1994 to 2017[108]
 

America

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Country City Name Years Image
  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 Ellis Island, New York Adonis Books[115][116][117] 1967 to ¿?[118]
New Orleans, Louisiana Beckham’s Bookshop[119][120]
No longer focusing on LGBT+ books
1967 to ¿?
 
New York, New York Oscar Wilde Bookshop[4][121] 1967 to 2009[122][123]
 
Minneapolis, Minnesota Amazon Bookstore Cooperative[124] 1970 to 2012[125]
 
A Brother's Touch Bookshop[126] 1983 to 2014[127]
Dalas, Texas
Austin, Texas
Houston, Texas
Lobo Bookshop[128] 1973 to 1988[129]
1986 to 2004[129]
Washington D. C.
Baltimore, Maryland
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Norfolk, Virginia
Lambda Rising[130][131] 1974 to 2008
1984 to 2008
1991 to 2010
1996 to 2007[132]
 
San Francisco, California Paperback Traffic[133] 1972 to 1982[115]
Old Wives Tales[134][135] 1976 to 1995[136]
 
Walt Whitman Bookshop[137][138] 1978 to 1980[115]
Noe Books and News[139] 1980s a ¿?[115]
Love That Dares[140] 1987 to 1988[115]
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
New York, New York
A Different Light[115] 1979 to 2009[9]
1985 to 2001[9][141]
1983 to 2011[142]
Bloomington, Indiana Dreams and Swords
Previously Aquarius Books
1986 to 1988[143]
Houston, Texas Wilde 'N' Stein[144][145][146] 1977 to 1986[129]
Inklings Bookshop[147][146] 1988 to 1997[129]
Crossroads Market[148] 1992 to 2002[129]
San Diego, California Obelisk Shoppe[149] 1992 to 2011[9]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee[150]
Previously Afterwords Bookstore and Espresso Bar
1993 to 2023[151]
Atlanta, Georgia Outwrite[9][152] 1994 to 2012[153]
 
Nashville, Tennessee Outloud[154][155] 1995 to 2010[156]
Boston, Massachusetts Calamus[9][157][158] 2000 to 2016[159]
West Hollywood, California Circus of Books[160]
 

Europe

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  Germany Hamburg Männerschwarm[161] 1981 to 2015[162]
Frankfurt Oscar Wilde[163] 1994 to ¿?[164][165]
  Scotland Edinburgh First of May Bookshop 1977 to 1990[166]
  Spain Barcelona Cómplices[9] 1994 to 2022[167]
 
Bilbao Safo de Lesbos[168] 2005 to ¿?[169]
Sevilla Librería Mira[170][171]
Valencia El Cobertizo[172] 1997 to 2004
  France Paris Blue Book[173] 2003 to 2008[4]
Lyon Etat d’Esprit[174] ¿? a 2009
Marsella Les Mots pour le dire[173] ¿? a 2008[4]
  Italy Milan Babele[175][176][177] 1987 to 2012[178]
 
Rome 1993 to 2009[178]
 
  Netherlands Nijmegen De Feeks[179][180] 1977 to 2022[181]
Amsterdam Intermale[182] 1984 to 2011[183][184]
 
Vrolijk[185][186]
Now online
1984 to ¿?
 
  Portugal Lisboa Esquina Cor de Rosa[187] 1999 to 2006[4]
  Sweden Stockholm Rosa Rummet[188][189][190] 1981 to 2001[191]

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