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Contents:

•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• GAY LBIAN LONDON (43 RULTS)
• QUEER CY: GAY LONDON OM THE ROMANS TO THE PRENT DAY BY PETER ACKROYD – REVIEW

 GAY'S THE WORD 

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

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GAY LBIAN LONDON (43 RULTS)

In le wh the 19th-century censorship necsary for s publitn, Wil's renowned novel don't actually nta any explic homosexualy. Neverthels, the wrer's queerns puls through his words and there is no qutn, my ey, that this is a gay book. Dpe beg qutsentially Victorian, you uld do a cynil morn readg of the book parg Gray's anguish over his appearance to current gay culture London… The Instagram of Dorian Gray, anyone?

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QUEER CY: GAY LONDON OM THE ROMANS TO THE PRENT DAY BY PETER ACKROYD – REVIEW

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. 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. It was the first LGBTQ+ bookshop Stland and the send, after Gay’s The Word, the UK. Who says gays n’t drive?