Alim 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
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- GAY'S THE WORD
- GAY'S THE WORD
- GAY'S THE WORD
- GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE
- LONDON’S BOOKSHOPS: GAY’S THE WORD
GAY'S THE WORD
Gay's The Word, the olst LGBT bookshop the UK, loted at 66 Marchmont St, London, England, WC1N 1AB. Fd Out More. * gay's the world london *
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GAY'S THE WORD
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GAY'S THE WORD
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Collected om the 19th century, the archive — curated by the imable Stef Dickers — brims wh prs cuttgs, lbian pulp fictn, 90s gay mags, necsary documentatn of the HIV/AIDS crisis and Sectn 28 — and everythg between.
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GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE
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LONDON’S BOOKSHOPS: GAY’S THE WORD
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Gay’s The Word is an LGBTQ bookstore London – you’ll fd was Gay’s The Word tablished? Inspired by the emergence and growth of lbian and gay bookstor the Uned Stat, a small group of people om Gay Icebreakers – a gay socialist group – found Gay’s The Word the shop was found 1979, gay books were not generally available mastream bookstor – you had to source them om specialist publishers via mail-orr, generally om the were the men behd Gay's The Word? Origally om Harrow, jt outsi of London, Peter Dorey and Ernt Hole were the origal founrs and owners of Gay’s The 2019, Peter and Ernt both attend the store’s 40th anniversary celebratns – held at the Brish died at the age of 73, after an extend perd of was Gay’s The Word raid by the police?
In 1984, Ctoms and Excise thori – assumg the shop to be a porn store – mounted a large-sle raid of Gay’s The Word. The shop’s owners were charged wh nspiracy to import cent books unr the Ctoms Consolidatn Act a public mpaign, the charg were eventually dropped ’s the future for Gay’s The Word? While the store’s origal owners have moved on, Gay’s The Word ntu to play a val role wh the LGBTQ muny London and beyond.