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• LONDON'S OLST LGBT+ BOOKSHOP IS LOVED BY CELEBS - BUT THEY WON'T TELL WHO THEY AREGAY'S THE WORD BLOOMSBURY 'ULDN’T BE MORE PRI IF YOU STUCK A BIG MULTILOURED RIBBON AROUND 'GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYANNA HIGHFIELDCOST OF LIVG REPORTER11:00, 26 JUN 2021BOOKMARK (IMAGE: ANNA HIGHFIELD)GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

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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.

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.

LONDON'S OLST LGBT+ BOOKSHOP IS LOVED BY CELEBS - BUT THEY WON'T TELL WHO THEY AREGAY'S THE WORD BLOOMSBURY 'ULDN’T BE MORE PRI IF YOU STUCK A BIG MULTILOURED RIBBON AROUND 'GETWTLONDONBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYANNA HIGHFIELDCOST OF LIVG REPORTER11:00, 26 JUN 2021BOOKMARK (IMAGE: ANNA HIGHFIELD)GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THAT FRIDAY FEELG WH THE LATT BOOK REMENDATNS AND REVIEWS BY JOG THE FRIDAY BOOK CLUBINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

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.

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.