East Coast Day 12: Baltimore & Washington

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These were the last two town before New York City and the end of our travel. I planned only a night in Baltimore and maybe it would have been nice to stay there more. I didn't dislike the town like someone told me I would, but actually I saw only the harbor and did a little walk around there. Then this morning we arrived in Washington and left in all hurry the luggage in the hotel to go to rent a bike and tour the city. We did all the classical tourist things, like going up and down the mall, up to Capitol Hill, to the Lincoln memorial, around the basin... We also did a thing we discovered by ourself without any guidebooks told us: we go up the Old Post Office tower and see the city from above. I loved it, and it was free! I wonder why no one of the guides I have (3!!!) said something about it. In the afternoon the weather wasted a bit and so I went inside a Barnes & Noble bookstore with a Starsbuck cafe: I had every intention to buy at least a book of the list I have with me but no one was available, actually the Gay Fiction was only one shelf (one shelf!), all the Gay & Lesbian section (fiction and non fiction) was only a stand, in a two floors bookstore. When I asked to the customer service if maybe they did have them somewhere else, a very kind lady searched book per book in the system and said no, they didn't have them. She asked me if I needed them for some sociel studies, like if finding gay fiction in a bookstore was not so normal. I'm not complaining on the service, the lady was very nice, but I really believed it was easier here to find these books than in Italy.

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By Elisa Rolle

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[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're certainly covering a lot of ground.

LGBT literature is still thin on bookstore shelves. While it's readily available online at major sites, this is still the case in actual stores.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

It's true that I asked for small publishers but even if it was not like that, the choice on the shelves would have been limited. Elisa