In Episode 216, the Erins delve into “Circus of Books,” available on Netflix. Rachel Mason's 2019 doc tells the wildly unlikely story of her own parents — Karen and Barry Mason, a soft-spoken Jewish couple from L.A. who quietly became the largest distributor of gay material in the United States, all while their own kids had no idea what the family business actually was. We get into Circus of Books as a sanctuary during the AIDS crisis, the federal obscenity prosecutions that nearly took Barry down, what happened when the Masons' son Josh came out, and what the 2019 closure says about gentrification and the loss of queer brick-and-mortar space. Grab a cup of frothy goodness — it's funny, tender, a little radical, and very much our kind of doc.