Circus of Books is closing.

[CarlyMcx]

If you are of a certain age, and were a deeply closeted trans girl in the 1980's and lived anywhere near West Hollywood, you knew this place.


https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-west-hollywood-porn-shop-circus-of-books-20190208-story.html


By Hailey Branson-Potts

Feb 08, 2019 | 7:35 AM

Back in the days when there was no internet, and dinosaurs roamed the earth, Circus of Books was literally one of the only places where I could find any information or material at all on gender transition.  Most of it, but not all of it, was porn, of course.  But there were a few magazines on crossdressing and transitioning, and what I found there became part of my resource base for my first two attempts at transitioning.

Even though I haven't been there in many years, I am shedding a tear over its demise.

Carly