Austin Stores Offer Shopping Delights to the LGBT Community

Austin is a city that is enriched in culture and ripe with diversity. Residents of the city, fondly referred to as Austinites, are proud of their home town, especially in the LGBT community. There are various stores that were created with LGBT individuals in mind, and serve the community some of the finest items available.

The BookWoman store, which is located at 5501 North Lamar, #A-105, leads the local women's rights and feminist movement in Austin. Their books are centered on bringing the very best to women and the LGBT as a whole. There are countless opportunities that the store offers to the public, such as award winning books for sale, book reading and signings by authors, book groups, and monthly reading programs. There are also teen and youth books readily available for sale. This book store, which has been in the Austin area for over 34 years, was originally housed on Guadalupe Street in the upstairs section of a store. Since then, the size and demand for BookWoman has grown extensively, thus resulting to their current home today.

A popular clothing store in the Austin area is Tung Gear. This store has taken to the Internet, as TungGear.com offers stylish clothing, shoes and accessories for lesbians. There are intimates for women, such as boy shorts, thongs, panties and women's white boy briefs. There are clearance items that are also available through the website, such as shoes. TungGear.com has become a fashion statement for Austin residents as well as the lesbian community throughout the U.S. There is shipping available to the continental United States, as depicted in their website. This store has become the epitome of lesbian clothing for the Austin area, and many local women are happy to support the Tung company.