My primary responsibility at the library is indexing porn. This is my special purview, this collection of queer pulp fiction. I do love a good lie down.īut here’s the most important thing about the queer library: at the back of the room, there is a long line of locked cabinets which are a veritable cornucopia of mid-century gay erotica. I’m having trouble thinking of things less queer than that book.ĭespite all this, I’m fond of the place - though that might have something to do with the extremely comfy couch just behind the front desk. The first thing you see when you enter the room is a “kink section” where some ignorant soul has placed a copy of 50 Shades of Grey. Half the stacks are cluttered with unorganized boxes and uncatalogued books, there has been a projector abandoned in the corner probably since the 1990s, and the volunteers, who receive very little training, can’t do much to fix up the old joint. And it’s a great example of what university bureaucracy and volunteer-run programs get you: maddening messes.
It’s basically a room where they put all the especially gay books. I volunteer at an LGBTQ library which is an annex of my alma mater’s primary library.
