It could - on DecemSchlegel opened Bright Pink in a small office space connected to the Body Shop bar at 4310 South Paradise Road. Schlegel's interest in opening such a store was born when he visited A Different Light in Los Angeles and wondered why Las Vegas couldn’t have something just as wonderful. Bright Pink Literatureīut in 1987 Rob Schlegel, publisher of the Bohemian Bugle and one of the community’s greatest activists, opened Bright Pink Literature, the city's first specifically commercial LGBT bookstore.
Dalton, Waldenbooks, and, later, Barnes & Noble and Borders, began stocking gay sections.
It would be several years before the chain bookstores in town such as B. R&R was ahead of its time, was more gift shop than bookstore, and was not much patronized by the Las Vegas gay community. Opening at the outset of the AIDS epidemic in Nevada didn’t help. R&R opened Februat 4637 Paradise Road next door to Gelo’s nightclub, then closed in November 1985. The first establishment in Las Vegas to offer LGBT merchandise and to advertise openly as a gay shop, was R&R Assordid Sundries. In the years before Stonewall, gay literature was unavailable in Nevada outside porn shops, and there were few commercial bookstores willing to stock such material. Part of that reason is that, as gay author Michael Thomas Ford has pointed out, “There’s more to be found in a gay store than just something nice to read.” Just walking into a gay store can be an act of liberation, and such shops often serve as welcoming space for the queer community in otherwise hostile environments. While more famous retailers across the country, such as A Different Light and the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, have closed as LGBT literature has gone “mainstream,” Get Booked has survived for more than 27 years. This area is known as the Fruit Loop for its cluster of gay-oriented businesses. Get Booked is the longest-lived LGBT retailer in Nevada, located in the Paradise Plaza shopping center in Las Vegas on the corner of Paradise Road and East Naples Drive. Get Booked represents a decades-old history of Las Vegas retail. But Get Booked has not always been in the fashion business. Today, Get Booked is a clothing boutique featuring many of the brands and styles favored by forward-fashion men seeking the hottest and cutest look in swimwear, underwear, harnesses and more.
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