Owners of iconic Church St bookstore This Ain’t the Rosedale Library announced this month that the store is moving to Kensington Market. The move signals a change of direction for the store, to a smaller size with shorter business hours. Coowner Dan Bazuin, who first opened the store with Charlie Huisken on Queen St E nearly 30 years ago, talks about how it feels to be moving after two decades in Toronto’s gay village.
"What you ended up with was the ACT UP sort of things going on, the politically charged days of AIDS activism," Bazuin says of the area soon after they arrived. "We’re very political activist people so we just fit that like hand in glove." In fact, when the first queer Pride parade took place on Church, Bazuin says the store provided the power for the stage.
