The importance of Gay's the Word, the first place I'll be gog after lockdown

Contents:

•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• THE IMPORTANCE OF GAY’S THE WORD, THE FIRST PLACE I’LL BE GOG AFTER LOCKDOWN
• THE IMPORTANCE OF GAY’S THE WORD, THE FIRST PLACE I’LL BE GOG AFTER LOCKDOWN

 GAY'S THE WORD 

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THE IMPORTANCE OF GAY’S THE WORD, THE FIRST PLACE I’LL BE GOG AFTER LOCKDOWN

And Gay’s the Word do que a lot for one ltle place. Found 1979 by a group of gay socialists - the marvelloly tled Gay Icebreakers - the Bloomsbury shop has always operated as a meetg place and muny rource as well as a ’s the Word started out as a space for queer lerature which other bookshops were too sred or homophobic to stock. In 1984 the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers group met at Gay’s the Word to raise funds for shop has always been a safe space hostile tim.

It has faced threats of s own too, subjected to Ctoms raids (also 1984, on grounds of importg cent material like Edmund Whe’s self help gui The Joy of Gay Sex) and more bis.

Throughout all, Gay’s the Word has never closed - until ’s the Word shut temporarily mid March, brgg a halt to booksellg and the numero muny activi that go on on the ty shop floor.

THE IMPORTANCE OF GAY’S THE WORD, THE FIRST PLACE I’LL BE GOG AFTER LOCKDOWN

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