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
Includg a legendary gay swimmg spot. * gay's the world london *
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Gay’s The Word is a small bookshop but the range of LGBT fictn and non-fictn they stock is huge.
GAY'S THE WORD
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GAY’S THE WORD – LONDON’S INIC QUEER BOOKSTORE CONTU TO THRIVE
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Bookshop extraordaire: Gay's The Word. The first of s kd, Gay's The Word Soho opened as the UK’s first dited LGBTQ+ bookshop 1979.
Persecuted Irish poet Osr Wil has a ff-shaped cigarette-holdg statue jt off Trafalgar Square (and plaqu around town, cludg one at Clapham Junctn statn), while gay breaker Alan Turg has a steel 'statue' Paddgton. The first-ever gay rights monstratn, Highbury Fields 1970, is memorated wh a plaque too. Keep an eye on their socials for nights llaboratn wh Gay Tim or Pengu Books, too.
Unniably one of the most ccial parts of London's gay history, the men's pond on Hampstead Heath is the clost Londoners get to a gay beach.
LONDON’S BOOKSHOPS: GAY’S THE WORD
The wild swimmg pond on Hampstead Heath is a summer mec for gay men.
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?