Myra Breckinridge (Book Cover Art/Gore Vidal) just out portland This shirt honors the Emporium

This shirt honors the Emporium not for scandal

The Ninth Circle was a staple of 1970s–80s Greenwich Village nightlife

and exist openly away from the pressures of public scrutiny

there was The Loading Dock — the city’s legendary leather bar built right on the loading dock of an old dairy along Orange Blossom Trail

For nearly five decades

Myra Breckinridge (Book Cover Art/Gore Vidal) just out portland This shirt honors the EmporiumMyra Breckinridge Book & Queer Legacy Long before mainstream culture had the vocabulary for gender fluidity, Gore Vidal dropped Myra Breckinridge in 1968a satire so sharp, sexy, and subversive it practically detonated on arrival. Through Myra, a trans heroine with a razor wit and a taste for Old Hollywood glamour, Vidal tore apart Americas ideas about gender, power, masculinity, and the fantasies that hold them all together. For queer readers, the