GAY'S THE WORD: All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (wh Photos)

Contents:

•  GAY'S THE WORD 
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE
• KSTY KREW ANTHEM GAY REMIX - SGLE
• GAY'S THE WORD
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• GAY'S THE WORD
• CELEBRATG 40 YEARS OF GAY’S THE WORD, LONDON’S GLOR LGBTQ BOOKSHOP

 GAY'S THE WORD 

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LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE

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KSTY KREW ANTHEM GAY REMIX - SGLE

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“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.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

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. 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.

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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.

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

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.

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.