Oscar Wilde to close

[operafan]

I love going to gay book stores. I hate this trend -- although it is modern, I suppose. One in DuPont Circle in Washington (is it still there) was where I first ran into Milo Sturgis in Jonathan Kellerman's books.

Historic Greenwich Village gay and lesbian bookstore will close

by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk Wednesday February 04, 2009, 4:44 AM


The Oscar Wilde Bookshop in New York City's Greenwich Village, which is believed to be the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore in the country, will close on March 29 due to economic troubles, according to a report in the New York Times.
The report said the store nearly closed six years ago, only to be sold and given a last-minute reprieve. It was opened in 1967 on Mercer Street by Craig L. Rodwell, who was influential in the gay rights movement. It later moved to 15 Christopher St

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/historic_greenwich_village_gay.html

 

[sentirpromesas]

it's a sad day when an independent book store closes. They just can't compete with the Walmart

 

[belamy]

What have walmarts and liberation gay army shops got to do with books?

 

[Blueboy369]

Very sad. I've been to this bookstore. So many little shops have closed. The village is hardly recognizable.

 

[belamy]

Very sad. I've been to this bookstore. So many little shops have closed. The village is hardly recognizable.

You say that as if that were a bad thing: for better or for worse, everything is bound to change in ten or twenty years time, and be totally unrecognizable after thirty and forty years.

 

[metta]

I guess we should not be surprised, even though it is sad. I have seen many of the Border bookstores close recently. If the big stores are having trouble, you know that the small ones are probably having trouble as well.

 

[Shepherd 2]

This is the trend and there is simply not enough money to stop most of it. What this needs is one independently gay man who is willing to have a business that will lose some money. This is not likely in today's economic disaster.

Shep+

 

[RationalLunacy]

Why can't Oscar Wilde ask for a multi-billion dollar bailout?