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•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• GAY'S THE WORD
• GAY'S THE WORDLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSGAY'S THE WORD
• LOCAL HEROES | GAY’S THE WORD
• GAY'S THE WORD
• A BOOK LOVERS PRI: FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, GAY’S THE WORD HAS BROUGHT LGBT+ LERATURE TO THE STREETS OF BLOOMSBURY
• LONDON’S BOOKSHOPS: GAY’S THE WORD
• GAY'S THE WORD
• GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE

 GAY'S THE WORD 

Fictn, Nonfictn, Young Adult Fictn, Classics, Poetry, Plays, Rare Books, Comg Out, pl Gay's The Word and LGSM merchandise.

Gay's The WordWant an alternative to Amazon? AboutA bookshop wh subject matter for the gay ways to experience nearby attractnsThe area Neighborhood: BloomsburySnuggly ntled wh Central London is amic and leafy Bloomsbury, an area that boasts walkg distance accs to many of London's most popular attractns.

Everythg is laid out wonrfully sectns, spac of the Gay novels, Lbian novels, young adult queer novels, books about the history of queerns, more rmatn on the different sexualy’s like bisexual and asexual, along wh other books that n go hand hand wh that of the LGBTQ+ muny.

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Gay’s The Word is a small bookshop but the range of LGBT fictn and non-fictn they stock is huge.

GAY'S THE WORDLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSGAY'S THE WORD

Everythg is laid out wonrfully sectns, spac of the Gay novels, Lbian novels, young adult queer novels, books about the history of queerns, more rmatn on the different sexualy’s like bisexual and asexual, along wh other books that n go hand hand wh that of the LGBTQ+ shop worker was at the till, for safety reasons due to the till, but was happy to give advice to people or direct them to where the book they were after you are wantg to go to a book shop that is proud to have s books out on display for the general public to see, this will be your first port of ll.

RadPeter Dorey, Co-Founr of Gay's The Word Bookshop, Di Aged 73'It is clear that generatns of LGBT+ people owe Peter Dorey a bt of thanks' reports Will Strou for Attu Magaze, 16 Febary 2021. Bigoted Brish tiger that b off more than uld chewGraham McKerrow wr for talkg humani about Operatn Tiger, the Brish state’s attempt the 1980s to prohib the importatn of all queer books, newspapers and magaz, cludg a raid on Gay's The Word 1984.

LOCAL HEROES | GAY’S THE WORD

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Jonathan Cutbill Leav 'Phenomenal Collectn' of LGBTQ LeratureJonathan Cutbill, one of the founrs of Gay's The Word who passed away 2019, leav his LGBTQ Lerature llectn to Universy of London, wr Steve Brown for Attu Magaze, 24 January Bt LGBTQIA+ LeratureBrish Vogue asks 'ins of the LGBTQIA+ muny' to share what we queer wrg we should be readg, cludg Ernt Hole, founr of Gay's The Word bookshop, wrten by Liam Freeman, 21 June 's The Word Wants You To Notice ItThe Londonist profil the bookshop, askg about visibily and pri, wrten by Harry Rosehill, 11 June 2019.

Celebratg 40 years of Gay's The Word, London's glor LGBTQ bookshopDazed Digal profil the bookshop for s 40th anniversary, wrten by Louis Stapl, 27 Febary England's [First] LGBT Bookshopi-D Magaze terviews Gay's The Word's  light of s 40th anniversary, wrten by Jake Hall, 18 January 2019.

A BOOK LOVERS PRI: FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, GAY’S THE WORD HAS BROUGHT LGBT+ LERATURE TO THE STREETS OF BLOOMSBURY

]Gay's The Word turns 40'How a small LGBT bookshop beme an unlikely battleground the fight for gay acceptance', wr Thomas Stichbury for Attu Magaze, 17 January 2019.

Bookshop of the Month - Damian Barr's Lerary SalonGay's The Word is profiled for Damian Barr's Lerary Salon November 2018 wh a Q&A wh Uli Birth of Gay's The WordErnt Hole wr the history of the bookshop for the first time Polari Magaze, 17 January. Gay’s The Word, the olst survivg LGBT+ bookshop the UK, is next up our Lol Hero seri, where we big up the people, small bs and neighbourhood spots that make London great.

The bookshop was found 1979 by a group of left-wg gay socialists, cludg Ernt Hole, who’d been spired by the work of Craig Rodwell and the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop  Manhattan (which was found two years before the Stonewall rts and was the olst LGBT+ bookshop the world before closed 2009) and wanted to open somethg siar across the Gay’s The Word Deputy Manager Uli Lenart explas, “the bookshop founrs chose the name ‘Gay’s The Word’ as a liberate bold proclamatn: as a visibly queer name; was an articulatn of our prence a climate of erasure.

LONDON’S BOOKSHOPS: GAY’S THE WORD

Up until that pot, some mastream bookshops had been ristant about stockg gay-themed books or materials…. ”Gay’s The Word was signed to be a muny space and meetg place as well as a place to fd books.

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As well as functng as a space for people to meet and nnect, over the years the shop has played host to a range of discsn and support groups, cludg Lbian and Gays Support the Mers, the Black Gay Group and the Disable Gay Group.

”Openg a queer bookshop the late 70s was not whout s challeng, wh prejudice entrenched society and the media at the time, and Gay’s The Word was targeted wh homophobic graffi and even bricks through wdows.

GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE

Thankfully thgs have started to change as he explas, “now parents e wh their non-bary, lbian and gay children. ”The history of Gay’s The Word and the refuge has provid for untls people only unrsr the importance of havg dited LGBT+ bookshops, as well as LGBT+ spac general. ”As well as beg able to nnect wh all the ctomers that e through the shop doors, Gay’s The Word has also allowed Uli to explore his passns, “I’m passnate about my muny, wrg, lerature and ias…To spend some time wh Tomasz Jedrowski, thor of Swimmg the Dark, or to disver a but thor who’s pletely blown my md wh their brilliance – like Jon Ransom, thor of The Whale Tattoo – I’m the luckit gay town!

As the staff n cheerfully attt, tears are a mon occurrence on the shop floor at the Bloomsbury LGBT+ bookstore Gay’s the Word.