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This article reports on the closure of the Creative Visions bookstore in Manhattan, New York on December 31, 2004. The owner cited increased competition from the Internet and large retail chains as reasons for the closure. The closure left only one specifically gay bookstore--the Oscar Wilde Bookshop--in the city. Carol Rosenfeld of the gay literature group Publishing Triangle said that while the store closing is sad, it would be a mistake to give it too much weight in terms of the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. According to her, online gay booksellers are still thriving. She also said that gay people are reading, but they're shopping differently because they have more options.

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