Displaying posters for events, selling tickets for concerts and hosting meetings were only some of the activities undertaken especially when it became a volunteer collective operation in the coming years.

[3] By 1976 the store was entirely operated by a group of volunteers, none of whom owned it or received any compensation, particularly Mark Wilson who maintained the finances and determined the budgets.

Over the next fifteen years L’Androgyne was a cornerstone of gay and lesbian literature from Quebec, Canada and around the world and was an integral part of the burgeoning queer publishing movement.

[6] In the same year, the store moved to its final location, on Amherst Street (now named Rue Atateken) in the relocated Gay Village.

[6] Due to the early 21st-century decline of LGBT-oriented independent bookstores across North America, however, the store closed by 2002;[1] unlike Glad Day, which survived in this era by adding sex-related merchandise, such as gay and lesbian pornography, to its catalogue, Rousseau opted not to do so as he would mainly have been cannibalizing his own sales at Priape.