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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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.