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Contents:
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
- SAVG ‘GAY’S THE WORD’: THE ‘OPERATN TIGER’ RAID ON A LGBTQ BOOKSHOP 1984
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BIRMGHAM
- GAY'S THE WORD
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
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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. Image source, John Jenner/Atralian Lbian and Gay ArchivImage ptn, Wayne Harrison and L McDonald opened their first shop 1982"People have a sense of ownership when they e here, " says L McDonald. "Wayne and I -found The Bookshop bee we travelled to New York and we noticed that gay books were beg advertised all of the gay prs and we thought: 'No-one's dog that at home.
'"So we ntacted St Mart's Prs [ New York] and we bought a uple of books volume, shipped them back to Atralia and advertised them Campaign [a gay Atralian newspaper at the time]. "Through the 1980s, The Bookshop worked wh the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, sellg tickets to the para om s upstairs office, and wh Aids Council of New South Wal (ACON), promotg fundraisg events and ralli. "I had a mother ll om north Queensland, sayg that she thought her son might be gay and she wanted to know how to talk to him about and make him feel safe, bee his dad might not be as OK wh , " he ptn, LGBT rights prott"It's those kds of moments that get me all emotnal and thankful.
2 In April 1984, officers om Ctoms and Excise raid Gay’s the Word, a small pennt bookshop Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, as well as the hom of two of s directors, and seized thoands of imported books a move they lled Operatn Tiger.
SAVG ‘GAY’S THE WORD’: THE ‘OPERATN TIGER’ RAID ON A LGBTQ BOOKSHOP 1984
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This happened durg a perd of right-wg ernment followg Margaret Thatcher’s electn victory 1979 and heightened homophobia om queerbashers the street, the media, polil and relig lears and the thori.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BIRMGHAM
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In 1979, Ernt Hole and a small group of iends opened Gay’s the Word bookshop to sell gay and femist lerature at 66 Marchmont Street, London WC1, premis still occupi today.
GAY'S THE WORD
It took s name om the Ivor Novello mil Gay’s the Word and grew out of a portable llectn of books that Hole rried to different venu and events, fund by himself and Peter Dorey who had jt received a small herance. At the time, LGBT+ books were not generally available Brish bookshops but a few radil booksellers stocked some tl, and Gay News, a fortnightly newspaper found by a llective of activists June 1972, had an extensive mail-orr list.