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• GAY PRI SHOP / THE LGBTQ+ BOOK SHOP MANCHTER
• GAY PRI SHOP
• HOW A MANCHTER GLTER STALL TURNED TO MANCHTER’S BIGGT GAY PRI SHOP

GAY PRI SHOP / THE LGBTQ+ BOOK SHOP MANCHTER

Fed up wh high street shops and onle bs only really sellg ems durg gay pri, as well as givg nothg back to the LGBTQ+ muny here Manchter, Ian & Jason created the UK's Biggt LGBTQ+ Store the heart of the cy's inic Afflecks Palace.

Providg support for the LGBTQ+ muny throughout the year, and not jt for one week at the end of Augt, the Gay Pri Shop shar 15% of their profs equally amongst three fantastic chari... The Albert Kennedy Tst - supportg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people who are homels, livg a hostile environment or a hog crisis.

Even better, sce the return of retail shoppg, the Gay Pri Shop has actually extend and expand, knockg down a uple of walls and buildg an entirely new sectn filled wh even more LGBTQ+ products.

GAY PRI SHOP

There are, of urse, too many products to start listg them here, but there are some particular highlights that will warrant a vis to the Gay Pri Shop, cludg a dited LGBTQ+ bookshop area wh more than 800 books stock, cludg everythg om bgraphi and history books, to genr & equaly books for children and fictn om LGBTQ thors or featurg LGBTQ characters.

The Gay Pri Shop is loted on the Send Floor of Afflecks.

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HOW A MANCHTER GLTER STALL TURNED TO MANCHTER’S BIGGT GAY PRI SHOP

It is the kd of store one expects to fd a mall durg the third of the 21st century: a store entirely voted and dited to gay pri ems. He then disvered, a short amount of time, that, “gay people are the nict folks I ever met. Gay Pri Shop, a brand-new store dited to the LGBTQ+ muny has now opened Manchter cy centre.

Gay Pri Shop shar the same space wh the newly refurbished MUOBU on the send floor of Afflecks Manchter’s Northern Quarter and onle at.

30% of all profs om Gay Pri Shop are beg shared wh three LGBTQ+ chari that Ian and Jason personally chose.

Everythg om gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr birthday, Christmas and Valente’s Day rds, to Mr & Mr/Mrs & Mrs weddg ke toppers, rabow party ratns, badg, patch and bracelets. Gay Pri Shop is now open on the send floor of Afflecks, 52 Church Street, Manchter and onle at.

Gay Pri Shop / The LGBTQ+ Book Shop ManchterClosed. User photos om Gay Pri Shop / The LGBTQ+ Book Shop Manchter:. TV seri "Queer As Folk" put Manchter—and s lively and unique Canal Street gay village—on the ternatnal pop culture map.

The Gay Village's Sackville Garns is home to The Natnal Transgenr Chary's 16-year-old Sparkle Weekend July, billed as "the world’s largt ee-to-attend celebratn of genr diversy. The latter featur listgs and lols' sightful (and opnated) articl about the Gay Village's history, prent, and potential future.

Some of those spots clu a 2001 statue of Alan Turg at Sackville Park the Gay Village. However, he was persecuted for beg gay at the time, and he mted suici 1954 (an upbeat da: Turg was posthumoly pardoned 2014 by the Queen, and now is acknowledged as a hero). Retail junki will fd plenty of shops terg to LGBTQ ctomers, cludg the self-scriptive Gay Pri Shop the multi-level Afflecks market plex—self a wonrful haven of eclectic, unique, and lol vendors.

Men n also check out Manchter's gay sna, Basement, loted a former Victorian Mill (stunts get ee on Wedndays om 9 a. If you want to stick to the Gay Village, Velvet Hotel's Village Brasserie serv up a Brish and Mederranean pub menu that clus stone-baked pizza, steaks, pasta, and burgers (cludg a halloumi chee variatn! Turkish and Lebane food reigns at Jasme Grill, and popular gay pub Molly Hoe offers solid pan-Mederranean tapas, burgers, and bnch ems.

Employe at Gay Pri Shop. 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. 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.

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.