Founr of inic bookshop Gay’s The Word, which featured Pri and Killg Eve, has died aged 73 - MyLondon

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•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• LONDON'S OLST LGBT+ BOOKSHOP IS LOVED BY CELEBS - BUT THEY WON'T TELL WHO THEY AREGAY'S THE WORD BLOOMSBURY 'ULDN’T BE MORE PRI IF YOU STUCK A BIG MULTILOURED RIBBON AROUND 'GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYANNA HIGHFIELDCOST OF LIVG REPORTER11:00, 26 JUN 2021BOOKMARK (IMAGE: ANNA HIGHFIELD)GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON
• FOUNR OF INIC BOOKSHOP GAY’S THE WORD, WHICH FEATURED PRI AND KILLG EVE, HAS DIED AGED 73DOREY FOUND THE BOOKSHOP WH ERNT HOLE AND JONATHAN CUTBILL 1979GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYMICHELE THEILREPORTER11:38, 17 FEB 2021BOOKMARKGAY'S THE WORD WAS THE FIRST LGBTQ+ BOOKSHOP THE UK. (IMAGE: MICHELE THEIL)GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• BOTTOM’S UP! GAY’S THE WORD ROBBERS UGHT DRKG TEQUILA AND PROSEC DURG RAID
• CO-FOUNR OF PNEERG LGBT+ BOOKSHOP ‘GAY’S THE WORD’ DI AGED 82

 GAY'S THE WORD 

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LONDON'S OLST LGBT+ BOOKSHOP IS LOVED BY CELEBS - BUT THEY WON'T TELL WHO THEY AREGAY'S THE WORD BLOOMSBURY 'ULDN’T BE MORE PRI IF YOU STUCK A BIG MULTILOURED RIBBON AROUND 'GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYANNA HIGHFIELDCOST OF LIVG REPORTER11:00, 26 JUN 2021BOOKMARK (IMAGE: ANNA HIGHFIELD)GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Gay’s The Word. Gays The Word is the UK’s olst LGBT+ bookshop. Gay’s The Word is a popular pennt LGBT+ bookshop and ’s the olst the UK after openg January 1979.

This month they’ll be hostg ‘Gay Wr: Reprentatn, Love and Prejudice Young Adult Lerature’ wh William Hsey and Darren Charlton nversatn wh Hamza Jahanzeb. Pl you n fd a whole host of tl on their page om gay thrillers to bisexual non-fictn and favoure picks om the staff at Gay’s The Word. Found by a group of gay socialists, Gay's The Word has been a touchstone for the LGBT+ muny London sce first opened s doors 1979, on Marchmont Street Bloomsbury.

GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON

The template for Gay's The Word was the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop Manhattan, found two years before Stonewall.

Uli says Gay's The Word has been “absolutely crazy by” sce they have been able to re-open.

Gay's The Word was a lifele for the queer muny throughout the 70s and 80s, when mastream bookshops were reluctant to stock what society had wily nmned to be 'perverse' lerature. " Uli says over time faiar fac the store have bee iends, creatg "a kd of gay fay atmosphere, a queer fay atmosphere, " which he says is very unique and special. “You’ve got to remember the late 1970s there was no place for the lbian, gay and queer muny to accs lerature, " says Uli.

FOUNR OF INIC BOOKSHOP GAY’S THE WORD, WHICH FEATURED PRI AND KILLG EVE, HAS DIED AGED 73DOREY FOUND THE BOOKSHOP WH ERNT HOLE AND JONATHAN CUTBILL 1979GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYMICHELE THEILREPORTER11:38, 17 FEB 2021BOOKMARKGAY'S THE WORD WAS THE FIRST LGBTQ+ BOOKSHOP THE UK. (IMAGE: MICHELE THEIL)GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

“We thk of Stonewall as beg the moment when gay liberatn started but the Osr Wil memorial bookshop was existence two years before that, " says Uli.

Gay's The Word founr Ernt Hole (the "perfect name" for a gay male bookshop owner, lghs Uli) had gone out to New York to fd out how Rodwell's shop was operatg, and happened to arrive the day after Stonewall began.

BOTTOM’S UP! GAY’S THE WORD ROBBERS UGHT DRKG TEQUILA AND PROSEC DURG RAID

“Inially - om the nversatns I’ve had wh Ernt - there was some antipathy, there was some divisn, there was some homophobic graffi that went up, " he says, addg, "I thk at that pot we had to have shutters on the door…” “It’s difficult to time travel your md to the social and cultural temperature of the late 1970s this untry, " says Uli. Gay's The Word's Uli Levart remends the bt-sellg queer books for 2021. Openg the bookshop was an act of ristance agast the wispread culture of homophobia which famoly culmated Sectn 28.

CO-FOUNR OF PNEERG LGBT+ BOOKSHOP ‘GAY’S THE WORD’ DI AGED 82

The Brish law, troduced by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative ernment 1988, prohibed the "promotn of homosexualy" by lol thori until 2000 Stland, and 2003 England. The legislatn ed many anisatns such as lbian, gay and bisexual stunt support groups to close or lim their activi or self-censor. Gay’s the Word.

The UK’s first ever — and sadly last survivg — lbian and gay bookshop and historil safe space has been sellg LGBT+ texts sce 1979. Gay's The Word manager Jim MacSweeny. Manchter’s Inpennt Gay Bookshop wh over 1500 tl of Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans & Queer foced books.

Their onle store also provis a platform for queer podsts such as Comg Out Stori, Homo Sapiens and more, and hosts a fantastic blog wh excellent book reviews. They “love havg a good browse alternative bookshops and our spiratn for The Bookish Type has e om lots of plac we’ve vised over the years: Page One, Gay’s the Word, Category Is Books, Homans, Portal and many more.