The Mom-And-Pop Bookstore That Sold Gay Porn: 'Circus Of Books'
Rachel Mason and her siblings grew up unaware that their parents ran a gay bookstore. Her "affectionate but thinly realized" documentary skims the surface of stories that deserve deeper dives.
by Scott Tobias
Apr 23, 2020
3 minutes
"We own a bookstore."
For her entire childhood and most of her adolescence, that's all that Rachel Mason knew about what her parents did for a living and all she cared to understand. Kids tend not to sweat the particulars of how they have food on the table, clothes on their backs, and a roof over their heads, and the Masons, Karen and Barry, were perfectly content with her incuriosity and that of her two brothers, too.
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