{"id":53,"date":"2020-09-21T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/mind-the-gap-template\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2020-10-01T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:39:07","slug":"informal-writing-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/informal-writing-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"82\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/informal-writing-1\/image1-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21178\/2020\/10\/image1-1.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My research is on an old local bookstore called Outright Books for the Queer Studies course at\u00a0ODU. Not only is this a\u00a0requirement\u00a0for the semester, but we are ultimately giving back to the community for the Queer Walking Tour. Here is what I gathered about Outright Books so far, Outright Books was established on September 4th, 1991 at 485 S Independence Blvd, Virginia Beach, VA. Besides books Outright sold magazines, jewelry, original artwork, cards, and gifts. They even had discussion\/Book Groups on alternating Tuesdays. You could also recycle your old gay and lesbian books or magazines there. They also had a caf\u00e9 inside called the Rainbow Caf\u00e9. This is all I know so far about my\u00a0location, and I do plan to get in contact with the owner who apparently (and lucky for me) still lives locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why I&nbsp;am interested&nbsp;in this&nbsp;location? Well,&nbsp;I&nbsp;found it fascinating that a gay and lesbian bookstore once existed in this area. I have never been to a bookstore that was exclusively queer, so that is what most stood out to me. I wanted to research something that I have never really experienced, so I could appreciate the history more.&nbsp;&nbsp;If I were to go to Barnes and Noble&nbsp;now, there is like one or maybe even two bookcases filled with&nbsp;LGBT+ books. I would imagine having a full queer bookstore would be affirming because not only could&nbsp;someone imagine&nbsp;themselves in the books being sold. They also read about people who contributed to the conversations&nbsp;about&nbsp;struggles. It\u2019s also a different scene than clubbing or bars. So that is why Outright Books stood out to me as a research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of my research&nbsp;has been done&nbsp;by browsing archives of Our Own, and it\u2019s been a little tough. However, I got a lead that the owner still lives locally, so I plan on getting in touch. I think that will make research a lot easier. This is my first archival research blog, so please bear with me.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;am excited&nbsp;to bring forth whatever information I gather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research is on an old local bookstore called Outright Books for the Queer Studies course at\u00a0ODU. Not only is this a\u00a0requirement\u00a0for the semester, but we are ultimately giving back to the community for the Queer Walking Tour. Here is what I gathered about Outright Books so far, Outright Books was established on September 4th,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/informal-writing-1\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":18652,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/outrightbkstr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}