The last gay bookstore.Has the gay bookstore industry become a victim of its own success? Citing increased competition from the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and large retail chains, the owner of the Creative Visions bookstore in Manhattan closed up shop on December 31. The closure left only one specifically gay bookstore--the Oscar Wilde Bookshop--in the city. Carol Rosenfeld of the gay literature group Publishing Triangle said that while the store closing is sad, "it would be a mistake to give it too much weight in terms of the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual bisexual /bi·sex·u·al/ (-sek´shoo-al) 1. pertaining to or characterized by bisexuality. 2. an individual exhibiting bisexuality. 3. pertaining to or characterized by hermaphroditism. 4. , and transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. literature." Online gay booksellers are still thriving thrive intr.v. thrived or throve , thrived or thriv·en , thriv·ing, thrives 1. To make steady progress; prosper. 2. , she said. "Gay people are reading, but they're shopping differently because they have more options." |
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