But Lai was determined to bring gay culture into the open and insisted on his bright space. "With the changes society has undergone, now the vast majority of customers walk right in, unlike how they'd slip in in the past," he says.
不過決心要讓同志文化攤在陽光下的阿哲，仍堅持明亮空間，「隨著社會觀念的逐漸開放，現在來書店的顧客，絕大多數都是大大方方的進來逛，已不再像過去的躊躇觀望。」