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Contents:

•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• CELEBRATG 40 YEARS OF GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON’S GLOR LGBTQ BOOKSHOP
• MY FAVOURE PENNT BOOKSHOP: GAY'S THE WORD, LONDON
• GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON
• LOCAL HEROES | GAY’S THE WORD
• GAY BOOKSTOR AROUND THE WORLD
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

 GAY'S THE WORD 

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CELEBRATG 40 YEARS OF GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON’S GLOR LGBTQ BOOKSHOP

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.

MY FAVOURE PENNT BOOKSHOP: GAY'S THE WORD, LONDON

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. Readg is fundamental: si Bra’s queer bookshop boom | Dazed⬅️ Left Arrow*️⃣ Asterisk␠StarOptn Slirs✉️ MailExGay’s The WordCourty of Gay’s The WordAlim Kheraj prents a gui to the UK’s bounty of LGBTQ+ bookshops – om London’s Gay’s The Word and Glasgow’s Category Is Books, to Cardiff’s Paned o Gê and Belfast’s Paperxclips Books.

Queer spac have also diversified, too: whereas throughout the 00s most LGBTQ+ venu were nightlife-specific, terg primarily to an dience of whe cis gay men, the current landspe is far more clive, providg spac for people of lour, trans people, lbians, and those who are sober. For years, the inic Gay’s The Word London’s Bloomsbury operated isolatn, a cur among the untry’s shrkg pennt bookshop scene. Gay’s The Word, London.

GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON

Inially operatg as a rovg bookshop and mail-orr service, Gay’s The Word’s permanent lotn at 66 Marchmont Street Bloomsbury opened 1979.

From that moment beme a muny hub for the pal’s LGBTQ+ muny, hostg polil and activist groups such as the Gay Black Group, the Lbian Discsn Group (which still meets at the shop) and, 1983, Lbian and Gays Support the Mers – ma famo the 2014 film Pri. In 2007, risg rents, the global recsn and the proliferatn of onle shoppg saw the Gay’s The Word fightg for survival once more.

Sce then, Gay’s The Word’s populary has soared, wh longstandg manager Jim McSweeney sayg that the shop has never been as by as is today.

LOCAL HEROES | GAY’S THE WORD

Along wh specific sectns dited to gay, lbian, trans and YA fictn, there are shelv foced on history, tobgraphy and memoir, queer theory, and a rather brilliant send-hand sectn, where you n often fd rare and out-of-prt LGBTQ+ books. It’s the olst LGBTQ+ bookshop the UK, but Gay’s The Word remas the GOAT.

Along wh lks to the Gay Liberatn Front, the not-for-prof bookshop Kg’s Cross was the birthplace of the London Lbian and Gay Swchboard (now known simply as the chary Swchboard), which provid a val lifele to queer people throughout the 70s, and was stmental sharg rmatn about the HIV/AIDS crisis the 80s and 90s. As one of the longt-nng radil bookshops the UK, Homans also has a history of stockg LGBTQ+ lerature, and like Gay’s The Word, the shop was raid by HM Ctoms and Excise 1984. Gay Pri Shop/The LGBTQ+ Bookshop, Manchter.

Sharg their profs wh var LGBTQ+ chari, the Gay Pri Shop, loted Manchter’s Northern Quarter, is a place to pick up all your Pri paraphernalia, along wh fancy drs, stickers, toys, accsori and ratns. Begng life as a bookstall the cloakroom of a gay dis, Lavenr Menace was an LGBTQ+ bookshop that operated om 1982 to 1986.

GAY BOOKSTOR AROUND THE WORLD

It was the first LGBTQ+ bookshop Stland and the send, after Gay’s The Word, the UK.

Who says gays n’t drive? It is sential that anyone planng a group or school vis to Gay’s the Word bookshop notifi and liais wh well - at least three weeks - advance.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

The measur are place to ensure everyone visg Gay’s the Word has an enjoyable time.

This year, llaboratn wh KCLSU LGBT+ Network and other credible stunt groups, we brg you different events, activi and iativ to crease the visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans activists, their history and the stggl beg still fought by this muny.? On llectively movg our muny forward here and now by champng tersectnaly and social jtice for all LGBT+ intifyg dividuals, to reflect on both our dividual and llective histori, to challenge social norms, like homonormativy. Top of the list is the UK’s olst LGBT+ bookshop, opened 1979, Gay’s The Word.

Probably the most inic pennt bookshop, Gay’s the word was set up as a muny space where profs were funnelled back to the bs. Gay’s The Word holds the same ethos today; g the space for book and muny events and even settg up an onle shop and monthly book subscriptn, The Queer Book Box.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

You n vis Gay’s The Word at 66 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AB. While gay bars are an obv go-to for LGBTQ folks, there is somethg so soothg about spendg time LGBTQ bookshops.

Gay’s The Word (London). The UK’s olst LGBTQ bookshop, Gay’s the Word was tablished by gay socialists 1979. It also holds thor readgs and discsns, and matas an active relatnship wh the Gay Mm.

Celebratg 40 years of Gay’s The Word, London’s glor LGBTQ bookshop | Dazed⬅️ Left Arrow*️⃣ Asterisk␠StarOptn Slirs✉️ MailExCourty of Gay’s The Word‘If LGBT+ people don’t exist the world of fictn, we don’t exist the world’.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

“Lookg back, I thk I me to London to be gay, ” says 58-year-old Jim MacSweeney, who moved to London om ral Ireland 1982. ” Later this year, Jim will celebrate 30 years as manager of Gay’s the Word bookshop, England’s only LGBTQ+ bookshop. Ernt Hole found Gay’s the Word four s ago after visg The Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop the late 1960s, which was the first gay bookshop the US.