Concept Store
Concept StoreWest Village
This is NYC's only queer, trans and sex worker-run bookstore, tucked inside the LGBT Community Center. Browse radical reads, zines, and art while sipping iced coffee in a space that welcomes everyone regardless of ability to pay.
Tips
June 12 at 7pm
Step into a provocative gallery of muscle, ink, and unguarded moments captured between 1998 and 2009. Music industry icon Michael Alago celebrates raw queer masculinity through 200 Polaroids, from flexing bodybuilders to intimate portraits, all while supporting Manhattan's last queer bookstore.
June 13 at 11am
Join fellow readers for a lively discussion of lesbian fiction and non-fiction, with the group picking a new title each month. June's read is Margaret Vandenburg's Craze: come ready to chat, no registration needed.
June 13 at 4pm
Celebrate queer literary excellence as five Publishing Triangle award winners share fresh work spanning poetry, crime fiction, and bold nonfiction. Hosted at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, a beloved bookstore that one visitor called "a little gay serenity from the hustle and bustle of New York City."
West VillageOpens Friday at 1:00 PM
Concept StoreConcept StoreThis is NYC's only queer, trans and sex worker-run bookstore, tucked inside the LGBT Community Center. Browse radical reads, zines, and art while sipping iced coffee in a space that welcomes everyone regardless of ability to pay.
Tips
June 12 at 7pm
Step into a provocative gallery of muscle, ink, and unguarded moments captured between 1998 and 2009. Music industry icon Michael Alago celebrates raw queer masculinity through 200 Polaroids, from flexing bodybuilders to intimate portraits, all while supporting Manhattan's last queer bookstore.
June 13 at 11am
Join fellow readers for a lively discussion of lesbian fiction and non-fiction, with the group picking a new title each month. June's read is Margaret Vandenburg's Craze: come ready to chat, no registration needed.
June 13 at 4pm
Celebrate queer literary excellence as five Publishing Triangle award winners share fresh work spanning poetry, crime fiction, and bold nonfiction. Hosted at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, a beloved bookstore that one visitor called "a little gay serenity from the hustle and bustle of New York City."