Bookstores
How to navigate this page: This page features queer owned and inclusive bookstores and libraries. Click on the states below to be brought to their directory station.
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All directory pages are listed by state and then by the business type. All pages are always a work in progress with new businesses being added every day!
An intersectional feminist/queer bookstore in Somerville, MA that celebrates and amplifies underrepresented voices spanning across all genres.
High Five Books is an independent kids’ community bookstore in downtown Florence, Massachusetts. Your neighborhood go-to for graphic novels, middle-grade readers, and picture books, plus art kits + other creative supplies.
A lovingly curated collection of Books in print, Audiobooks, Vinyl Albums, & really cool magazines.
Lesbian owned & operated, intersectional feminist book/gift shop est. 1976. Ptown’s hub for activism, community.
Independent, carefully curated bookstore with used & new books in the Berkshires.
A Vermont bookstore with a focus on queer/trans and BIPOC voices & books in translation, with an emphasis on independent presses.
Lavender Lit: Bookstore and Lending Library
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Inclusive Business - Bookstore and Lending Library
Lavender Lit is a community-focused used bookstore + lending library in Attleboro, MA. We carry books featuring a wide array of underrepresented experiences, with a specialty in LGBTQ+ identities.
The Little Queer Library Waltham is a Little Free Library offering books that focus on the queer experience.
We are a 501c3 women-led, queer-led, and AAPI-led grassroots organization centered on community. Our mission is to focus on fighting racism and capitalism through the centering of resources, education, and art reflective of underrepresented identities and cultures. We represent and advocate for the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI), BIPOC, and queer communities in the Greater Boston Area.
We're a team of artists, book lovers, educators, and LGBTQ+ community members creating a brick-and-mortar LGBTQ+ library in Boston, Massachusetts where the queer and trans community can gather around shared interests and free resources. Our library will have books and other media that are authored and/or curated by the queer and trans community, available to access in an LGBTQ+ affirming space. Our free programs will enable young people, adults, and elders to connect with each other joyfully and authentically. The QT Library is an inclusive LGBTQ+ community designed for endless possibility.
A mostly queer, curated free mobile library wandering around NH and VT.