Celebratg 40 years of Gay’s The Word, London’s glor LGBTQ bookshop | Dazed

Contents:

• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY'S THE WORD BOOKSHOP SOLD ‘OBSCENE MATERIAL’ – ARCHIVE, 1985
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• CELEBRATG 40 YEARS OF GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON’S GLOR LGBTQ BOOKSHOP
• GAY’S THE WORD: CELEBRATG LGBTQ INTY AND HISTORY ALL YEAR LONG
•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT
• GAY'S THE WORD: TRIBUT PAID TO PETER DOREY WHO OPENED FIRST LGBTQ+ BOOKSHOP

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

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GAY'S THE WORD BOOKSHOP SOLD ‘OBSCENE MATERIAL’ – ARCHIVE, 1985

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Yet even if no one says , Weird Barbie is clearly Gay Barbie. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.

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

Melodi From "Gay's The Word". A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.". "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

GAY’S THE WORD: CELEBRATG LGBTQ INTY AND HISTORY ALL YEAR LONG

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. A ctoms officer taed a book om the Uned Stat about the Aids epimic and novels by Tennsee Williams, Gore Vidal and Christopher Isherwood a raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop April 1984, a urt heard officer, Mr David Odd, was givg evince on the fourth day of mtal proceedgs which eight directors and one staff member of Gay’s the Word bookshop Bloomsbury, London, are charged wh dulently nspirg to eva the prohibns on the import of cent or obscene material. He thought that he might have taed the book, which is referred to the charg, ‘bee had the name of a homosexual thor on the ver’ agreed that he had no guil as to what uld be nsired cent or proceedgs to ci whether the se should be sent to Crown Court are expected to end charg agast the bookshop were eventually dropped 1986.

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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’. “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.

THE MEANG OF GAY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT

Sat nocuoly between a phone repair shop and a fé London’s Kg’s Cross area, Gay’s The Word has outlived s US and Brish peers such as Edburgh’s Wt and Wil and Brighton’s Out.

Gay’s the Word has always been more than a shop. Jim first vised Gay’s the Word as a member of socialist LGBTQ+ group Gay Icebreakers, which the shop’s founr was also an active member of. In 1984, Gay’s The Word beme home to Lbians and Gays Support the Mers (LGSM), a socialist llective aimg to fancially assist the mers’ strike efforts agast Margaret Thatcher’s ernment.

The 2014 film Pri follows the story of the group, which was found by late gay rights in Mark Ashton. He says that the ia of shared activism has always been tegral to the Gay’s the Word ethos.

GAY'S THE WORD: TRIBUT PAID TO PETER DOREY WHO OPENED FIRST LGBTQ+ BOOKSHOP

Courty of Gay's The Word. Like so many queer spac, Gay’s the Word has also faced fancial difficulti. As gentrifitn has ed mographics to shift and vulture-like velopers to circle, many have been forced to close their doors, cludg the NYC shop that spired Gay’s the Word.

“This was a really important space the 80s – was where you me to get gay books.

In the 90s beme more difficult and Soho started as a gay area so you didn’t have to e here anymore, ” Jim explas. There were lots of queer spac and ed to be a real hub of gay activy. Though after emails requtg that supporters sponsor shelv were picked up by newspapers, chequ began to flow and people realised the affectn they had for Gay’s the Word.