Giovanni's Room Celebrates 35th Anniversary

Giovanni's Room will be celebrating its 35th anniversary this fall with a number of events. These are just the first. When the book seller started in 1973, there were way fewer than 100 titles on the shelves, among them James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room," which has been almost continuously in print ever since.

In those days, every homosexual in North America had heard of the novel because there were so few gay novels, so the name was a codeword--lesbians and gay men knew what it meant but most other people did not.

Nowadays relatively few have heard of it, so Giovanni's Room is pleased "that we in our very small way help keep the book alive, though it's hard to explain where the name comes from to someone who calls to order a pizza!"

For more information about August events, visit http://www.giovannisroom.com/.