picured, Nathan Rapport
I know what you’ve been wondering, same as me.
When is Hudson going to get a semi-erotic queer bookstore?
Right?
How many more farm-to-table restaurants can open? What are we going to read while enjoying that kale salad and oatmilk latte?
Thankfully, a queer-friendly bookstore has FINALLY opened! Kudos to Nathan Rapport and Jonathan Osofsky for their chutzpah. They did not stop with Queer Film Nights and Queer Figure Drawing. No – we march on! Gayly forward!
“The Backroom” is right around the corner from me! In my ward! How convenient.
Where? Guess where.
“The Backroom” is currently in the back of Kasuri, which you enter from Prison Alley. It’s the former Cannonball Factory/Dress Factory/Etsy Support Center.
“The Backroom” is a small space filled with queer images, books, playing cards, and who-knows-what-else in the future….This little room may be the only dedicated queer space in a good thirty to forty mile radius – from the Dutchess County Pride Center in Poughkeepsie to the Capital Pride Center in Albany.
Nathan is very optimistic about the bookstore’s future. Many of the books and materials are from his Dream Brother Gallery from LA, that unfortunately shut during COVID.
Stop by and wish them all the best!
This is so necessary and brazenly beautiful! We MUST create unapologetic queer spaces – Hudson will be better for it! Dream Brother Gallery was a jewel box of community and artistic exchange in LA…Hudson be wise…INVEST IN QUEER ARTISTS AND QUEER SPACES. Nurturing the combined dreams and schemes of Nathan Rapport and Jonathan Osofsky will only produce jewel toned fantasias of communal bliss!!! Create and Engage in the Queer Spaces you desire to see more of. Don’t sleep on this. Congratulations you gay wizards!
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You guys are so lucky to have Nathan spearheading this! This guy is amazingly talented not only as an artist himself, but also a brilliant curator of others work. We miss him here in Los Angeles and celebrate his work there in Hudson. ?️?
What hours is the new bookstore open, is there a web site to contact info?
Hi Dennis.
The bookstore is located within Kasuri.
Their business hours are…
Wednesday-Saturday 11-6
Sunday 11-5
We are currently working on getting some of the product on the website, but for now it’s an in-person experience.
You can keep up with our Instagram at @dreambrothergallery and @kasuri_ny
The gallery website is dreambrothergallery.com and you can send any questions to dreambrothergallery@gmail.com.
Hope to see you in the shop soon!