Outloud Books and Cafe, Church Street District

Nashville's source for LGBT books, music, videos, gay erotica, and Pride gifts is OutLoud! (1703 Church St., 615-340-0034), which comprises not only a retail store but also a popular cafe (pictured here). The cafe is open weekdays for lunch, and also on Sundays for brunch, and serves simple but well-prepared (and quite healthful) wraps and sandwiches, salads, and so on, plus an array of muffins, pastries, pies, and dessert treats. It's in the Church Street gay entertainment district, next to Blu Nightclub and near Blue Gene's gay bar, and it's just a couple of blocks from Play and Tribe gay clubs.