Gay Village (Manchter) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go

Contents:

• GAY VILLAGE
• GAY MANCHTER
• MANCHTER GAY BARS

GAY VILLAGE

Eat, Gay, Love. You’ll need to go home and search the ter for gay books then e and fd s relevant tegory’. “Even livg Manchter which has a vibrant gay muny sadly there are still people who feel they nnot be open about who they are, or some are still on that journey of disvery, so I wanted to create a welg space where people n not only read about issu and characters that reflect their liv and experienc, but discs , and be spired.

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GAY MANCHTER

The Albert Kennedy Tst - supportg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people who are homels, livg a hostile environment or a hog crisis.

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MANCHTER GAY BARS

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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.