A longtime manager at Dog Eared Books has bought the locally owned bookstore's second location in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district.
It will be rechristened as Fabulosa Books next month. Alvin Orloff, 59, a gay man who has worked for the bookseller for 21 years, is buying the store location from Dog Eared Books' queer owner Kate Rosenberger Razo, who will continue to operate the store's first location on Valencia Street.
She opened the Castro store in the summer of 2016, taking over a vacated clothing store space. The storefront at 489 Castro Street had previously been the home of beloved LGBTQ-focused A Different Light Bookstore from 1986-2011.