The Little Gay Shop, Austin
Looking around The Little Gay Shop, you can see how a person could be forgiven for getting caught up. The store opened in 2020 in a renovated shipping container on Airport Boulevard and moved to trendy East 12th Street last summer. The location may have changed, but the vibe remains the same: Pee-wee’s Playhouse with a Texas twist.
It’s a store where you can find signed first editions of memoirs (including, I feel compelled to add, my own), rare magazines wrapped in plastic, and more-than-suggestive wooden ashtrays. All the merch is lovingly curated; some of it is deliciously naughty…