Philly AIDS Thrift at GIovanni's Room
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Exclusive Interview Hour: 8 to 9PM EST / {PART-2} Spotlight Guest:
Sondra Carpenter
*Host & Interviewer: SAGE aka Francine Elizabeth Natal
TOPIC: Sondra discusses her Blog and Blogging to dispel myths about New Orleans and Mardi Gras.
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VISIT THE ONLINE ACCESS LINK:
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*MORE ABOUT SONDRA CARPENTER aka ‘The Mardi Gras Girl’ Blogger…
* Mission as a literary artist:
To be able to share the passion I have for the Mardi Gras celebration as well as the culture and traditions.
* My target audience:
People worldwide who love travel and have an interest in the Mardi Gras and New Orleans cultural experience.
* Aspiration 2 to 5 years from now:
Looking to eventually do travel videos, particularly of the Mardi Gras Indians, and incorporate more in-depth information on them in the blog content.
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📍 Philly AIDS Thrift at GIovanni's Room, the first and oldest LGBTQ bookstore in the nation
A World-Class Q***r Bookstore and Thrift Store
Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room is a world-class non-profit q***r and feminist thrift and book store housed in the historic Giovanni's Room, originally founded in 1973. To date, Philly AIDS Thrift has donated more than $2,033,842 to 29 HIV/AIDS organizations in the five-county Philadelphia region. We will be continuing this work and the legacy of Giovanni's Room by offering a huge selection o
10/16/2022
For all of the amazing children please join us this afternoon for drag story time ! Here @ Giovanni's Room, 345 S 12th st, Philadelphia, PA
10/12/2022
We're shutting the doors at 5:30 PM today so we can throw a party celebrating our volunteers! (Don't you wish you were one? 😇) We'll be open tomorrow for our regular hours, 11am-8pm.
10/11/2022
The store is CLOSED to the general public today, so that we can host a special event! (It's not too late to buy tickets.)
10/06/2022
Are you coming to the book club tonight? 6pm!
Philadelphia Q***r Book Club: VIROLOGY - Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room Hey we have a brand new beautiful Q***r Book Club meeting at our store! At 6:00 we’ll be discussing Joseph Osmudson's VIROLOGY: ESSAYS FOR THE LIVING, DEAD, AND THE SMALL THINGS IN BETWEEN.
10/02/2022
We're getting ready for the spooky season🕸🎃here at Giovanni's room with some terrifyingly🧛♀️amazing q***r horror lit . You can find these books here, in store or online @ https://q***rbooks.com
09/30/2022
ARE YOU READYYYYYY?
EDIT: The event has been RESCHEDULED! We'll see you all two weeks from tomorrow, on the 15th!
09/27/2022
🎶"On the eeeeeedge of -"🎶
Everything in the store today is 25% off, in honor of US. 😊
09/25/2022
🎶SING IT WITH US!🎶
09/23/2022
DO IT. (Size M, $18)
09/22/2022
"In Instagram-style vignettes that span Montreal, New York, and Berlin, our narrator — a doctoral student in medieval studies — leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the s*x, drugs, and music that define q***r nightlife.
Accompanied by Jacob Pyne’s full-colour illustrations, which perfectly punctuate the narrator’s occasional self-destructive melancholy, Scenes from the Underground delivers the fully uninhibited field notes of the club scene." Paperback, $19.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/scenes-from-the-underground/
09/20/2022
SUPER rare, maybe not the best read? But definitely... unique. ($74.99)
09/18/2022
They say it pays to advertise. (Size M, $38)
09/16/2022
"In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living.
In a series of deeply honest, funny autobiographical essays, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself, all through the lens of yoke." Paperback, $15.95
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/yoke-my-yoga-of-self-acceptance/
09/15/2022
🌈 TONIGHT! 5PM! 🌈
Eloquent Statues/Q***r Voices: A Poetry Reading - Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room Eloquent Statues/Q***r Voices is a poetry reading run and hosted by Noah David Roberts (they/them), in seeking to provide a space for q***r and innovative poets that is unpretentious, non-compet...
09/13/2022
Have you seen our new DVD display?
09/11/2022
A poetry book to really tease the tastebuds. $59.99
09/04/2022
No comment necessary. 😊 (Size S, $16)
08/28/2022
Check out this incredible piece! ($135) A one-of-a-kind dress for your own, vintage-inspired wedding... or you could wear it around the house quoting Bette Davis's best lines from "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" Both are solid options.
08/26/2022
Make the last week of summer count, and JUMP IN on our swimsuits 🌊 🌊 🌊 ($10 each)
08/25/2022
"MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 by The New York Times, Bustle, Goodreads, The Boston Globe, LitHub, and more!
Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl “Trey” Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships–all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death." Hardcover, $27.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/my-government-means-to-kill-me/
08/16/2022
NEW EVENT THIS FRIDAY! 6PM! Don't miss it!
Rajiv Mohabir's ANTIMAN Reading and Signing - Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room Rajiv Mohabir is on tour! Join us for the for the first event celebrating the paperback release of his genre-blending memoir
08/14/2022
Again... no idea where half this stuff comes from. But what undiscovered treasure, for the right customer. :) ($2.99 each)
08/12/2022
We had the most AMAZING donation of vintage t-shirts, featuring ACT UP and other '90s LGBT activism. (These are only three! We have more!) The Keith Haring print is priced at $70, the two on either side are $50. Sizes from left to right are: Large, X-Large, and Medium. Come down and see for yourself!
08/11/2022
"WANTED: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best!
In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose. But it’ll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a hotly contested rainbow balloon arch to get these two from "I don’t know what I’m doing" to "I do."
Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL." Paperback, $15.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/husband-material/
08/07/2022
We're hosting a book club! http://linktr.ee/phillyq***rbookclub
One of our incredible volunteers, Danny, has put this all together. Meanwhile we're giving 10% off this month's selection, "The Kingdom of Sand," with a coupon via the website and if you mention the club in the store! We hope to see you on Thursday, September 1st, 6:30pm.
08/05/2022
RAWR!! ($20, guarantee against extinction not included.)
08/04/2022
"A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle, she quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with the revolutionaries themselves–most notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress, Cornélie Duplay." Hardcover, $27. A new offering from a local author!
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/mademoiselle-revolution/
07/31/2022
"HEARTSTOPPER" IS BACK IN STOCK! We're so happy to say we - FINALLY - have all four volumes of "Heartstopper" available in the store. ($12.99 each, paperback.) These have been almost impossible to order in since the Netflix show premiered, so grab them while you can!
07/29/2022
Care Bear............. definitely not staring at your -
(Size M, $25)
07/28/2022
"Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes!) are all assembled here to amaze and delight you in a wildly unique anthology celebrating love between men, from an astounding array of comics creators who know exactly how it feels." Paperback, $19.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/young-men-in-love-a-q***r-romance-anthology/
07/26/2022
🏳️🌈25% off everything in the store today!🏳️🌈
07/24/2022
🌈It's coming!🌈
07/22/2022
... we honestly don't know where half of this stuff comes from. But we're glad it's here. ($4.99 each.)
07/21/2022
"Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance." Hardcover, $27.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/wrath-goddess-sing/
07/19/2022
✊ ✊ ✊ ($15, Size M)
07/17/2022
... we're a classy establishment, we swear. (Both shirts XL, $16)
07/14/2022
"The often violent, visceral, and always provocative style of Japanese manga legend Gengoroh Tagame, one of the originators of Japanese bear culture, comes to life like never before in THE PASSION OF GENGOROH TAGAME, a new edition of the artist’s first English-language collection. Known as The Tom of Finland of Japan, Tagame is celebrated around the world for his groundbreaking work, noted for its masterfully crafted imagery and unbridled exploration of bo***ge, lust, passion, and romance. " Paperback, $29.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/passion-of-gengoroh-tagame-master-of-gay-erotic-manga-vol-1/
07/13/2022
Don't miss our event this Saturday! A reading by Michael Dumlao, author of The Wisdom of Guncles, a collective work of stories highlighting the familial relationships of people in the LGBTQ+ community.
Michael Dumlao: THE WISDOM OF GUNCLES Book Event with Philadelphia Asian & Q***r - Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room Saturday, July 16th 6 PM 345 S. 12th Street Philadelphia, PA Continue the 2022 Pride season into July! Join Philadelphia Asian & Q***r on July 16 at the historic LGBTQ+ bookstore Philly A...
07/07/2022
"A good love letter can speak across centuries, and reassure us that the agony and the ecstasy one might feel today have been shared by lovers long gone. In THE LOVE THAT DARES, q***r love speaks its name through a wonderful selection of surviving letters between lovers and friends, confidants and companions." Hardover, $19.99
Available in-store and online: https://www.q***rbooks.com/product/love-that-dares-letters-of-lgbtq-love-friendship-through-history/
07/05/2022
THIS SATURDAY! New event at the store, 6pm!
Jack Lowery with Kristen Martin - Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room Saturday, July 9th at 6pm. 345 S. 12 St, Phila, PA Join us at PAT @ Giovanni's Room for a special event with Jack Lowery and Kristen Martin celebrating the book IT WAS VULGAR AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. ...
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345 S 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA
19107
Opening Hours
| Monday | 11am - 8pm |
| Tuesday | 11am - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 11am - 8pm |
| Thursday | 11am - 8pm |
| Friday | 11am - 8pm |
| Saturday | 11am - 8pm |
| Sunday | 11am - 7pm |
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