That's a shame. I REALLY enjoy this book store. All the good places close in WH and crummy awful places open up replacing them. WH just isn't the same anymore. To many breeders and single women moved here. I prefer the gay area to be for gay people ONLY.

West Hollywood is a great city which embraces a wonderful blend of of orientations. The Bodhi tree is my all-time favorite bookstore bar none. In my 35 years of patronage, they have provided a warm, welcoming and cozy environment. They have provided, for me, 100's of life-transforming editions and the opportunity to select beautiful/unique gifts for others as well. I will miss The Bodhi Tree as I would miss a beloved family member and you shall remain ever in my heart. God Bless!

Perhaps donate any unsold books to the new, W. Hollywood Library. And to the person living in some kind of 'gay bubble', if it wasn't for the 'breeders' you wouldn't even be alive. Weho is evolving to include a balance of all types of people. I'm gay, and I like the changes in regards to its diversity.

Thank you for such a lovely article on the Bodhi Tree and for being a wonderful support to our store and community We absolutely appreciate all of our customers (from all backgrounds) and get such joy from the positive response we've received. Hopefully we can reincarnate next year. In the meantime, drop by for a final visit! Thank you all and will keep you posted, Neisha

We should forgive Paul and pray he broadens his view of humanity and of the WeHo community. In the very essence of our being, we are all one.

Forgiveness is not a requirement of my faith. It is always sad though to see a member of a scorned and abused community be so bitter and bigoted. He must be so angry and unyielding to speak such ugly and prejudiced words

I do not think Paul likes women very much. Maybe he got screwed over really bad by some. I have not seen any breeders around here. They cannot afford the rent.

Tracey - you are really right. When one has a baby there is a chance that it will be a boy or girl, straight or gay or even transgender (or bi). If you are not prepared to love your baby/child no matter who it is - hair color, eye color, gender and orientation then you need to reconsider having children. We are who we are and loving is not something we should be able to take or leave. And for Wendy - my own building is full of breeders and gay men and they are all excellent folks. My neighbors on each side are both and I see strollers and kids and men only parents and women only parents and mixed parents - in my opinion how it should be . Sorry Paul. In this case - it's your problem - the rest of us seem quite content.

Funny how all the people who disagree with my opinions as truthful as they are happen to be female. Gay men who are my age and who remember how WH was before the breeders decided to move into town and settle down. When that happen over time things were never the same. Agree or disagree it is a truth account.

Chloe Ross
1:02 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
Paul you come across as a bigot. If you don't want people to call you a "fag" or a "fruit" or "queen", then don't refer to straight humans as "breeders". You have breeder equipment and don't use it for breeding. Not all straight people engage is sexual activity to procreate. You are a misogynistic man and this lumps you in with breeders and gay alike. It's a guy thing. Get real.

The term breeder was designed for straight people who decide to settle down in a gay affluent area. Yes, they have dragged down the quality of life gay men like myself experience and enjoyed so much during the 80's & 90's. Picture fire island but not quite that extreme. Today West Hollywood which was once referred to as the creative city, now resembles the valley. Sadly, our beloved gay brothers & sisters were hit hard during the AIDS epidemic. That's when the breeders came to town and decided it was a great place to raise there children because the gays made it so beautiful, safe....... I love children and there have always been kids here just not as many as there are now. Today West Hollywood seems more like Sherman Oaks.

You remind me of an SNL sketch called the Miles Copperthwaite.

Paul - embrace change and progress. Straight people in WeHo adore the Gay; we have no problem. If we don't - you shouldn't. AIDS changed a lot of things but we have hope and research and be glad so many of your hated breeders support gay causes with ease and hope. We are not the enemy. If we didn't like the Gay we WOULD be in Sherman Oaks - those are the ones I can't stand.

I am certainly not a historian when it comes to the evolution of the gay movement to West Hollywood. I do remember the gay pride parade was first held on Hollywood Blvd and the police where beating gay people like Rodney King. The gay movement REALLY began in a gay bar in New York. The drag queens grew tired of the gay bars, which where illegal back then, being raided regularly by police. One night they stood up in what was a monumental stand causing a riot thus the beginning of gay rights. West Hollywood became a place gay people settled down in and lived openly. San Francisco had the Castro district which today has also been invaded by breeders. The gay movement was on a huge wave when AIDS changed everything and continues to do so. Beautiful,young, talented people gone. One can ONLY wonder had AIDS never happened or if it was more controllable with modern medicine like today if our people would be fighting the good fight, alive living in West Hollywood. What if?

PS - Not that the victims of AIDS did not fight for there lives against this horrible disease but early on and for what seemed forever, so little was known in regards to treating this bizarre new epidemic which was originally called gay cancer. People got sick and were dead shortly after.

Paul - for an avowed gay you are sadly bereft of your own history. The fight back started with Stonewall. And before that with Harry Hay (a friend deceased sadly) of the Mattachine Society who was joined by many young gay men who met in secret to relax and be themselves - Will Geer was a member. The women created a group called the Daughters of Bilitis for the same purpose and the sh*t hit the fan at Stonewall. Just as you are gay - I am straight - but unlike you I have always - from my teens - supported equal rights and this always included gay people. I suspect I am older than you are and have seen some ugly bigotry. You need to grow - since you are healthy enough to do so. I was part of MECLA, Elizabeth's courageous crusade and knew some of the very first docs who tried to understand "gay cancer". I have lost precious friends from it and when I see those who are thriving and surviving my heart swells with hope and joy. You are a bitter Gay man and not one of the minority sadly. I lived in WeHo in the 70's and it was a great city. Like all children - it started to grow up - something you might consider doing - instead of calling names.

No sh_t Chloe. Stonewall was in NYC. It might be still be? Sheldon (Shelly) Anderson was a community activist here in West Holly wood and he owned many apartment buildings and he founded the first gay bank, Bank of LA as well as a legendary bathhouse on 3rd street, the 8709. Once AIDS starting killing people pressure to close the bathhouse grew. It finally closed in 1985. Sadly, Sheldon passed away in 1987. I know the history by living through it.

Sheldon Andelson created MECLA at the start of the Gay Men's Aids Crisis (poorly named) with my friend Dr. Michael Roth and many others. Michael was Elizabeth's doctor and was responsible - with the sadness of Rock Hudson's decline as well, of making her aware that we were in an epidemic that was not gay but pandemic. I too know the history by being here when it happened and weeping copiously when people Ioved died. Here is the bottom line - you loathe breeders. I do not have this problem with any humans that live in my midst. Find a mate who has the same affliction; move to a solitary existence and let's cut out all this crap. I am not moving and not breeding. I am not denigrating, hating or blaming any group. Viruses don't care; pray we will end AIDS quickly. I hope you don't have it. And if you do, I hope you are doing well with medication. I have the gay in my own family and I love them and always have. I suspect my own father was gay and that was a shame - because we could have had even more fun together as I grew up had I known. He certainly was a metrosexual and a brilliant man. We always called the Bank of LA the Bank of Sheldon Andelson. Paul- I would like to end this now. We are going nowehere with it and despite your misogynistic mindset - you are someone's son and were loved - I hope by the breeders who had you. May I wish you a happy holiday and ask that we stop - now. I am not the enemy but this has run its course Shalom

I never said I hate anyone. I just prefer West Hollywood with my friends alive in well living here and enjoying life. If is definitely not the same but neither am I. I'm a lot older and naturally I see things differently at this perspective a pose to a young gay man coming up today who has no idea what it was like in the good ole days.

This breeder stuff ad nauseum has gone far beyond the point if The Bodhi Tree closing. Sad that it is this swat feast appears to represent that more folks could have and maybe should have explored the benefits of what the BT had to offer in its spiritual library of information. I will miss it sadly.

Happy Holiday Lynn and be very happy that we had this oasis of dharma for so long. Hope you have a great day.

While we're professing tolerance lets take a moment and reconsider the Sherman Oaks bashing. They're people just like us. Gay and straight. Honest.

And farewell Bodhi Tree. A one-of-a-kind place.