The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was a bookstore located in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood that focused on LGBTQ works.

I wanted the Society to set up a combination bookstore, counseling services, fund-raising headquarters, and office.

[11] Despite a limited selection of materials when the bookstore was first established, Rodwell refused to stock pornography and instead favored literature by gay and lesbian authors.

The bookstore closed on March 29, 2009, due to double-digit declines in sales caused by the economic crisis amid extreme competition with online book sellers, according to Brinster.

[22] It was part of a spate of LGBT brick and mortar bookstores closures in the early 21st century, including Lambda Rising's Washington store and A Different Light in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The roots of Rodwell's belief in "gay liberation" arose from his daily readings of Christian Science literature which stressed the dignity of every human being regardless of sexual identity.