[Marxism] Oscar Wilde Bookshop to close

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I met John Lauritsen, my coauthor of /The Early Homosexual Rights 
Movement (1864-1935)/, in the original Oscar Wilde Memorial Booshop (it 
then had "Memorial" in its name) on Mercer Street in Greenwich Village. 
Craig Rodwell, the owner, warmly agreed to sell the monograph we peddled 
as a precursor to that book, after the Socialist Workers Party refused 
to publish it because it was allegedly too sympathetic to social 
democracy. Craig could be counted on to use his business to support gay 
activism, not the other way around as it is mostly today, where gay 
businesses support profit making above all. So, now the bookstore goes 
the way of radical gay activism, down the memory hole.
David

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/venerable-gay-bookstore-will-close/
 



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