#GladDay

[wholesomequeershit]

I don’t have much reach on Tumblr so reblogs are hugely appreciated.

The Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, Canada is in danger of eviction. Besides being the oldest (and non-profit!) queer bookshop in the world, they are also a coffee shop and events venue providing a much needed place for queers of every flavor to feel safe and supported. If you have the means to help, please do! If not, reblogs and sharing on other platforms are very very appreciated. Queer spaces worldwide are getting fewer. We have to try to save the ones we have.

-Juno

Copy paste of their instagram post text:

The Immediate Crisis -

Glad Day has reached a crisis point. Since the ‘end’ of the pandemic (and the end of COVID-19 subsidies) we have been struggling. We have been going into debt almost every month for the last 2 years. We have often been short on rent. Our landlord has been patient but if we are unable to provide him with a lump sum payment of $100,000 in July, we will be evicted. BUT if we can pay him $100,000, he has agreed to a small reduction in our rent for 1 year, which gives us time to consult with our communities, explore our options, and create the next version of Glad Day.

The Strategy -

We are hoping to raise $300,000 to give us at least one more stable year at our current location and provide the capacity needed to dream of and act on whatever Glad Day becomes next.

This fundraiser will help us prevent a crisis, stabilize us for a year and be a catalyst for rebirth.

We know that with intense inflation, funds are tight for many people and you may already be donating to other organizations. Any support you can provide, even if it is sharing this campaign with one other person, is deeply appreciated.

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Peddlestox hope Sadday go to Gladday neartimes. <3

Thank you :) This made me smile XXX

[rytron]

Hey @chucktingleofficial I’m sick with corona virus right now so my mind is a mess but Glad Day Toronto, aka the world’s oldest LGBTQ2SiA+ bookstore, got a very raw deal from their landlord and are facing the possibility of shutting down forever. They are the truest buckaroos and always have been (they host so many events including queer singles trivia nights for neurodivergent bucks) and the whole Toronto community would appreciate a signal boost from the world’s greatest author to ever trot on this planet.

Save Gladday campaign https://www.gladday.ca/savegladday

Their Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gladdaybookshop

Website: https://gladdaybookshop.com/

Hope you and all your buckaroos are well!

[i-circe]

Virtual Book Launch

[rock-and-romanticism]

Picked this one up just for the cover #williamblake #gladday which has a fortuitously placed flash reflection ha. #strawbs #gravenewday. Of course I picked it up from the glorious Michelle @savvy_vinyl_records, who not only named the #artist but the #watercolor as well right off the top of her head, because with her BFA she also got a degree in art history :). Really really good #70s #buddhist infused #hippie #folk #acousticguitar with some interesting #electricguitar treatments which gives it a #ledzeppelin feel when they were at their softer side, sometimes leaning #jethrotull - but I don’t want to make them sound derivative. They aren’t. #folkrock #rock #rocknroll #rockandroll #rockmusic #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #vinylcollector #vinyljunkie #vinyljunkies #rockandromanticism #prog #progressive #progressiverock (at Vinyl Request Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwV3odMfUE/?igshid=1ge1pc8l5tj0u

[scifrey]

Here is my updated list of 2019 Appearances - please note that the Worldbuilding Livecast has been rescheduled. https://t.co/mlTHAyrtTC #authorreading #authorappearance #authorsofinstagram #WordOnTheStreet #gladday #bakkaphoenixbooks #toronto #whattodointoronto https://www.instagram.com/p/B1q303xgHJC/?igshid=zm8ii8kv4vme

[sturvn]

#feelingthis #gladday #dailymeditation https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx_mA6wFgN-/?igshid=1p1ydl1xhsl7r

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#Repost @gladdaybookshop with @repostapp ・・・ Reading is Fundamental! Drag Queens Reading and Fun at Glad Day Bookshop today! Happy Chosen Family Day! #lgbtq #queer #instagay #drag #dragrace #dragqueen #literacy #toronto #gladday #gladdaybookshop #lgbtqfamilies #queerspawn #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #glam #fabulous #canqueer

[hashtagveganproblems]

Vegan French Toast @ Gladday Bookshop😍🙌🏻

[jasonparis]

2017... Sashay Away. #igerstoronto #torontophotography #LGBT #DragQueen #ChurchWellesley #GladDay (at Glad Day Bookshop)

[thinkragelive]

2017 : 50

The puppy turned fifty. Dress-up. RL chauffeuring. Axe-throwing. Dinner up the 360. Drag-racing at GladDay. Smut to cuddles.

[ellenhenryart]

Yesterday was Monday. Today is …

#tuesdayvibes #Tuesday #rainbows

‘Gladday Rainbow’ design available from@TeePublic! 👉 https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/10426754-gladday-rainbow

[amajorminor]

Working on that this #week Been #feeling down I miss my #daughter #collegestudent #apartmenthunting has me a little #stressed #anxietyonfleek #gained so much weight on this #fiveweekvacation I feel like a #whale or #hippo usually I'm good but this week I don't feel like #myself will #return next week. #hopefully time to put in #workout #weightloss #placetolive #hobbies #motivation #blah #saddays lead to #gladdays

[homoliberation]

416-961-4161

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History

Glad Day Bookshop was created in 1970. This makes it not only the world's oldest surviving LGBTQ bookstore but also Toronto's oldest surviving bookstore. We believe we have the largest collection of LGBTQ titles in the world. Story, representation and freedom of speech are critical elements of LGBTT2SQQIA culture and identity – our bookstore is an important place that supports, nurtures and inspires culture. From Wikipedia:

" Opened in 1970 by Jearld Moldenhauer, it was the city's and Canada's first bookstore targeted to the gay community. The bookstore originally operated out of Moldenhauer's apartment in The Annex, which also served as the original offices of The Body Politic.[1]Moldenhauer later moved to a house in Kensington Market, where the bookstore and magazine operated out of a shed in his backyard.[1] The store moved to its current location in 1981.

In 1979, Moldenhauer opened a second location in Boston. A fire destroyed the Boston building in 1982, but the store reopened in a different location a few weeks later.[2]

Norman Laurila, an employee of Glad Day in the 1970s, moved with his partner Richard Labonté and friend George Leigh in 1979 to Los Angeles, where the trio established an influential LGBT bookstore of their own, A Different Light.

Moldenhauer sold the Toronto location to John Scythes in 1991, but retained ownership of the Boston store and continued to be involved in the Toronto store's operations.[2]After the Boston store's landlord decided to convert the building into condominiums, Moldenhauer closed the store in 2000 when he and manager John Mitzel faced difficulty finding a suitable new location.[3]

The Toronto location remains open, and is currently managed by Scott Dagostino. Since the closure of New York City's Oscar Wilde Bookshop in early 2009, Glad Day is now the oldest surviving LGBT bookstore in North America.[1] In late 2011, Scythes announced that he was putting the store up for sale due to declining revenues;[4] the store was ultimately purchased by a collective of 22 community members, spearheaded by teacher Michael Erickson[5] and also including former Xtra! managing editor Marcus McCann, former Pride Toronto executive director Fatima Amarshi, community activists Doug Kerr and Mike Went, lawyer El-Farouk Khaki[6] and performer Troy Jackson. Under its current ownership, the store has attempted to revitalize its role as a cultural hub, adding an event space to host author readings, performances and community group meetings, and conducting a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in 2013 to fund and launch an online bookstore for LGBT titles.[7]

How Glad Day Bookshop was created, by it's founder Jearld Moldenhauer

[kazekceisluk-blog]

o I didn t know Zoe whittle wrote another book. she's so nice she let me stay on her couch briefly in 90's then I read bottle rocket hearts n loves it. yeah I was just at woman n trans library in toronto they have trans video nights for a Noone n u can watch them there solo anytime n they have some trans books. I just bought Dr. Brice D. Smiths book lou sullivan daring to be a man among men. I got signed copy so Brice gave me great link which I havn t finished reading yet I had dentist appointment. lol Anyways here it is OK from the Digital Transgender archives.net u can get the free pdf of lou Sullivan s booklet called information for the Female-to-Male-crossdresser and transexual. Lou's founder of ftm international n first openly gay transfag to deal with health services o watch videos on you tube n Brice video reading from his book. yeah I'm sorta read in Manning up now it's at Yorkville library too. on YouTube there's a good film identity beyond the binary buck angel s in it he's so nice he answers all his fan mail. there's a good book called hidden in Plain sight by Zane. not the kinda book fir someone who wants to be cheered but I loved it yeah I love Elliott deline. I'm waiting also for that book to come in mail. refuse I read show trans and also I'm waiting for no poster boy. I just got leslie fienberg s drag king dreams it's not in library. I personally loved gender voices from.beyond the binary. even if u r not non binary I think a lot of essays by Riki Wilchins speak to all trans I would think . I love Kate Borstein any of her books or leslie fienberg or riki wilchins. I like jack halberstein book.i read forget title. his you tube videos too. lou sullivan wrote a book a biography of Jack bee garland but it's out of print hard to find I ve never read it but I really want to. but I noticed yesterday there's Alot more blogs articles ect.. online about babe bean. there's also prismcomics but their websites under construction but I think ther's an ftm comic book called transgressions which I havn t read yet. gladday bookshop has lotsa books listed on website by subject. There's markus Jones new book which doesn t come out til april 1st but u can pre order. he's trans but characters in that book r cis gay men I think. check his blog on tumblr starkiss creations . I love his zines !!!

ther's also this book for teenagers called ftm. a fiction novel. there s a great book mostly on subject of hate crime but I loved it called black on both sides . about black trans history. genderqueer and other identites photo book is one of my favourites. o I loved gender failure by Ivan coyote n Rae spoon and ivan s book tomboy survival guide. I saw a cool photography book I think it was called Christopher street well it's just photos of trans folks on Christopher street. in new York. relationship is a nice photo book too it's couple rhys n his girlfriend a trans couple. they work on transparent TV show now. there's 2 gender outlaw books bi the way it took me a while to figure that out. there's gender outlaw and gender outlaws .both r great.

Hello do you know any trans preferably FTM books? It would be great to read other experiences. It'll make me feel a little more normal. Thanks

There are a lot of wonderful trans books out there. I Am J by Cris Beam is my favorite YA book featuring a trans man protagonist and Holding Still For As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall is my favorite “adult” book. I’ve also heard good things about Refuse by Elliot DeLine and Beautiful Music For Ugly Children by Kirsten Cronn-Mills. If you’d prefer non-fiction, check out Transgender Warriors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Manning Up: Transsexual Men On Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves, or Transgender History.

You might also find more in my trans lit tag. Best of luck and happy reading.

[sturvn]

#recommendation from @zanderhodgson #gladday #meditation #lgbtq🌈 #thankszander 😘😘😘 https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPnoLFl72i/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uz4i1pjlcgkl