Larry Flynt \nMONROE, OH - Larry Flynt and Ohio simply can't seem to make peace these days. He wants to open an adult bookstore next to a strip club here. Last Friday, he was chased out of Cincinnati when his Hustler store was ordered closed there. And an anti-pornography group wants to close the store here before it opens
Citizens for Community Values executive director Phil Burress says the group learned late last month of Flynt's bookstore plans next to Bristol's strip club, in a former Gold Star Chili restaurant.
Burress tells the Cincinnati Post the group has contacted local businesses already, as well as Monroe officials, to alert them to Flynt's plans. "If he opens a sexually oriented business," Burress says, "he will be prosecuted for pandering obscenity and violation of zoning laws."
He says that fleeing Hamilton County, where Flynt agreed to stop and never again "pander X-rated videos," won't keep Flynt from the law or the CCV's interest. A Hamilton County court judge ordered the Cincinnati store closed after the building's owner sought a preliminary injunction. The store had opened only three days earlier.
The owner, Barry Randman, tells the Post he didn't know before he bought the building recently that a tenant had sub-leased space to the Hustler publisher. He wants a permanent injunction to keep Flynt out of the space. A hearing on that request is scheduled for Jan. 5.
But Flynt, apparently, isn't particularly worried. The Post says Flynt will continue looking for space to run a store between Cincinnati and Dayton.
''There will always be a Hustler store or presence in Cincinnati,'' says his brother, Jimmy. ''If we have to buy property, lease property or build, (Hustler opponents) are just going to have to deal with it. We're staying here.''
