Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop
In 1967, Craig Rodwell opened the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in New York City. This bookshop is notable because during its original opening, the activism surrounding same-sex sexuality rights within the United States was growing, and this bookshop is dedicated explicitly to gay and lesbian authors (NYC LGBT). During this time in the 1960s, homosexuality was still considered illegal, and punishment varied from state to state. These punishments ranged from being fined to imprisonment.
Hope End, Childhood home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barret Browning's family relocated to the Hope End Estate in Herefordshire in 1809. She would have been three years old. They would have been living here when Elizabeth's father gifted the twenty-volume Shakespeare to Elizabeth's aunt, Arabella. The family remained at Hope End until 1832, when a slave rebellion on the family's plantation in Jamaica strained the family's finances and forced them to relocate to Sidmouth in Devonshire.
San Francisco Bisexual Center
The Bisexual Center, according to it's founders, is a safe haven to promote a more sex-positive environment for bisexual persons. The desire for a place that bisexual persons can be authentically themselves started when a group of people, all of them bisexual, got together and attempted to create a center where they can hold potlucks and gatherings and generally a safe space for bisexuals to celebrate their sexuality without feeling any judgement.