In this time of internet porn overload and self-quaratined, it’s sometimes hard to remember the vital role gay shops and bookstores once played in our lives, not just in providing the print publications we required to help figure out who we are, but also the imagery that that showed homosex in, well, all it’s physical beauty and pleasure.
Until it was sold to Chi Chi Larue and renamed “Circus” last year, West Hollywood’s Circus of Books for many years was owned by husband-and-wife entrepreneurs