Philly AIDS Thrift at GIovanni's Room

We've got some new offerings in our pin/sticker display case: QUEER stickers and SEND NUDES buttons with a "lenticular" effect (your vocab word of the day) the image changes at different angles. ($5 each for both the stickers and pins.)

"A comprehensive and fun-to-read guidebook for people of all sexual identities and experience levels, GETTING IT covers all the bases of hook-up culture from first moves and sex etiquette to navigating nonmonogamy and sexual health... GETTING IT helps you understand what casual sex means for you and offers an instructive and empowering deep dive into how to get it, do it well, and feel great about it every step of the way. And since we’re all imperfect, Moon offers guidance for how to gracefully recover when you screw upor get screwed over." Paperback, $18.00 Available in-store and online: https://www.queerbooks.com//getting-it-a-guide-to-hot-hea/

"MOM, the rips are what make it FASHION." (The back has EXTRA fashion by way of an embroidered design we probably shouldn't show Facebook... or Mom. Come and check it out for yourself, $26, Size M.)

Spring has definitely sprung, so maybe celebrate it with these gorgeous lightweight brocade pants, decorated with robins and gardenias. ($50, size 4)

THE GAY ALTERNATIVE was an independent magazine published out of Philadelphia from 1972 to 1976. (Check out the advertisement for our own store, back at the South Street location.) It ran book and movie reviews, opinion pieces, and short fiction with the aim to gain "a clearer insight into the gay community and ourselves." All issues have been preserved online thanks to the John J. WIlcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way LGBT community center: https://voices.revealdigital.org/&. But if you're interested in owning a piece of gay Philly history, check out the issues in our magazine rack. ($24.99 while we've got 'em.)

Restock alert! We are once again fully stocked up on small Pride flags, featuring: Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, Progress Pride, Philly Pride (aka More Color More Pride), and SO MANY more! $4.99 each.

"On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem THE HILL WE CLIMB: An Inaugural Poem for the Country can now be cherished in this special gift edition. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry." Hardcover, $15.99. Available in-store and online: https://www.queerbooks.com//the-hill-we-climb-an-inaugura/

Why, Mr. Lennon... ($24.99, in our magazine rack)

I'm sorry, did you want -- for instance -- a book of queer-focused astrology? You know we can deliver. ($14.99)

"A memoir in essays about so many thingsgrowing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it’s like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough’s writing will break your heart." Roxane Gay At once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in LEAVING ISN'T THE HARDEST THING interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely. Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one’s past when carving out a future. Paperback, $16.95. Available in-store and online: https://www.queerbooks.com//leaving-isnt-the-hardest-thin/

Stop by for some last-minute Easter Sunday kitsch: $4.99 each! &yes, we are open normal Sunday hours, 11am - 6pm. Hope to see you soon

Halloween might be a little different this year, but there's still time to grab some spooky-scary stay-at-home fun: THE TWILIGHT ZONE, GOLD EDITION, $49.99 SWAP OF THE LOST MONSTERS, $4.99 BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, $7.99... FANTAZONE II, $9.99 ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: Season 1 ($9.99), Season 2 ($14.99), Season 3 ($14.99), Season 5 ($14.99), Season 6 ($14.99) See more

This Tuesday (10/27) is our MONTHLY SALE, get 25% your entire purchase! This month we celebrate the birth of Katharine Harris Bradley, one part of the duo who created the poet Michael Field. Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth century up to World War I. Their arresting poetry has recently gained them a place in the canon, and their extensive engagement with other writers puts them at the centre of fin de siècle literary culture.

Did you know Winston Churchill was also an author? His series on WWII earned him a Nobel Prize for Literature. We have all six volumes in a matching set! $14.99 each.

Black and white camp classics!! MILDRED PIERCE, $4.99 I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, $14.99 A DOUBLE LIFE, $14.99

Craft a modern identity in this brave new world. THE OTHER MOTHER: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms, $1.99. FUNK THE EROTIC: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures, $12.99. ENDANGERED SPECIES: A Surly Bear In the Bible Belt, $14.99. ... All hanging out in our LGBTQ+ Society & Culture section.

Planning a socially distant Halloween party? Maybe put on a record (TWELVE REASONS TO DIE, $14.99), watch a movie (GIRL SLAVES OF MORGANA LE FAY, $19.99), or spend time with a spooky new friend (baby doll, $10). (That a ghost is possessing this doll not actually guaranteed.)... (But just look at it.)

Ah- Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within this book!? Yes! & it can be yours for the low low price of $4.99!

"God, I miss the Cold War." Pick your poison: CASINO ROYALE (1954), $24.99 CASINO ROYALE (1967), $14.99, or ... CASINO ROYALE (2006) for $2.99. (Sorry, Daniel Craig.) See more

Check out this interesting story about "Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s", which was just released today. Get your copy in store or online at https://www.queerbooks.com//loving-a-photographic-history/

Philly AIDS Thrift (710 S. 5th Street) and PAT@Giovanni's Room (12th & Pine) are proud to announce we have now surpassed $3,000,000 in total donations to date to Philly area HIV/AIDS service organizations. THANK YOU to all the Shoppers, Donors, Volunteers and Staff who got us there. NONE of this is possible without YOU! Those of you who remember our original store around the corner on Bainbridge know how small and hardscrabble our beginnings were. We just happen to be celebr...ating our 15th anniversary on the same weekend that we reached the THREE MILLION DOLLAR mark, so we're thinking back to the fall of 2005 and how DIY and penny-pinching it all was back then. Now we only pinch nickels and dimes True Story: We were closing in on $3,000,000 right before the lockdown hit, we thought we'd be celebrating this last spring, but here we are back in business and now we've busted through $3,000,000 in the early fall instead. You know what? We'll take it! Thanks again to EVERYONE who helped us get this far. And THANKS for SHARING. See more

This is a fine predicament. Tickets to our Drive-In movie night with "BEETLEJUICE" at the Navy Yard are almost 70% gone, baby, gone. So you kinda better not hesitate even a minute more. Click and you're halfway there: http://filmadelphia.org/eve/philly-aids-thrift-beetlejuice/

Get your tickets now, we’re going to sell out soon!