04/10/2025
Independent, progressive, radical, Feminist and LGBTQIA+ bookstores have long been a haven for people from all sectors of the rainbow LGBTQIA+ family. Now, reports LGBTQ Nation, a top US based queer newswire, black lesbians in New York have their very own independent bookstore to support. Reporter Greg Owen writes "Gladys Books & Wine opened this week in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, and was packed with mostly young, Black lesbians hungry for culture and connection off line and IRL, and celebrating the new and nerdy addition to the neighborhood. The narrow bookstore on Malcolm X Boulevard was packed with dozens of lovers of books who also love women, smiling, laughing, and talking among the shelves and the art devoted to Black and women creators, according to The New York Times." Owner Tiffany Docherty has invested a leap of faith in the bookstore but so far its paying great dividends with many black lesbians and their friends popping by to chat buy and discuss literature.
