Between festivals and pride floats, it was presented in Madrid on June 27 at the Vinacoteca Tipo Infames bookstore, The street, a new publishing company based in Antequera (Málaga) and working for and for the LGTBI visibility through literature.
La Calle is a bet to reclaim a space for the books they take as references other identities and sexual orientations. Texts that have traditionally been relegated to the background in an editorial environment dominated by the presupposition of heterosexuality. Its argumentative, defining line and its values are very clear: the best stories are on the street. Because in the street there is diversity, variety, colorful characters and fascinating stories.
Its principles are solid and clear. They want to create a public street, for everyone regardless of their tastes, and safe, because behind each novel and each author there is a team that ensures rigor and professionalism. They are constantly expanding, they want adapt to the needs of the public and they are based on paper and digital format. The street is pedestrian, only for people, there are no vehicles or obstacles, only the social interaction. It is made up of a team that listens, who care about the people's opinion and they listen to it to keep improving. The Street, just like the street we all know, is open 24 hours a day, with Online store. And they go to the last one, they want to collect the tendencies, and all with charm, novels and brilliant stories for you to enjoy.
La Calle has reached the market with 12 titles that include novels and some LGTBI essay and dissemination titles, and are already working on new releases for the coming months. In bookstores you can already find titles like The accident, by Adolfo Pascual, The Red Book of Rachel, by Mónica Martín, or Do you understand about Cinema?, of the 0.40 Collective.
We applaud these initiatives that work for the standardization and visibility from a cultural point of view. Everyone on the Street! Because as they say, "Don't let anyone tell you that by reading homosexual literature you are reading in a ghetto."
