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New York City, New York
Black queer bookshop and café in Bed-Stuy, with a wine room below
Gladys Books & Wine is a bookstore and café on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, opened in 2025 by Tiffany Dockery and named for her late grandmother. The shelves center Black and queer literature, and the café is set up for coffee and long reading sessions, with a backyard for warmer days. Downstairs is a candlelit natural-wine room with feather chandeliers, velvet stools and a beaded curtain; the basement took on water in a May 2026 flood and was being repaired, so check the shop's Instagram before you plan a glass of wine there. Dockery built Gladys as a gathering place for Black queer women, and the calendar runs to readings, author events, poetry and live podcast recordings rather than DJ nights. It's an afternoon-with-a-book kind of place, a calmer register than a late-night bar.
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