We host the largt selectn of LGBTQ+ tl the UK. Hundreds of pri accsori cludg badg, flags, clothg, greetgs rds, jewellery and party ratns. LGBT Bookshop. LGBT Books. Gay Books.
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The UK's largt LGBTQ+ & Genr Inty Shop & LGBTQ+ Book Shop. Proudly Inpennt & Gay Owned sce 2014. Manchter Cy Centre based wh 1000s of ems stock, cludg greetgs rds, flags, jewellery, clothg, pri & LGBTQ+ accsori & para sentials. Profs shared wh LGBTQ+ chari. * gay book shop manchester *
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“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. Fed up wh high street shops and onle bs only really sellg ems durg gay pri, as well as givg nothg back to the LGBTQ+ muny here Manchter, Ian & Jason created the UK's Biggt LGBTQ+ Store the heart of the cy's inic Afflecks Palace. Providg support for the LGBTQ+ muny throughout the year, and not jt for one week at the end of Augt, the Gay Pri Shop shar 15% of their profs equally amongst three fantastic chari...
The Albert Kennedy Tst - supportg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people who are homels, livg a hostile environment or a hog crisis. Even better, sce the return of retail shoppg, the Gay Pri Shop has actually extend and expand, knockg down a uple of walls and buildg an entirely new sectn filled wh even more LGBTQ+ products. There are, of urse, too many products to start listg them here, but there are some particular highlights that will warrant a vis to the Gay Pri Shop, cludg a dited LGBTQ+ bookshop area wh more than 800 books stock, cludg everythg om bgraphi and history books, to genr & equaly books for children and fictn om LGBTQ thors or featurg LGBTQ characters.
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The Gay Pri Shop is loted on the Send Floor of Afflecks. Readg is fundamental: si Bra’s queer bookshop boom | Dazedâ¬…ï¸ Left Arrow*ï¸âƒ£ Asteriskâ StarOptn Slirsâœ‰ï¸ MailExGay’s The WordCourty of Gay’s The WordAlim 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. Queer spac have also diversified, too: whereas throughout the 00s most LGBTQ+ venu were nightlife-specific, terg primarily to an dience of whe cis gay men, the current landspe is far more clive, providg spac for people of lour, trans people, lbians, and those who are sober.
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.
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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 * gay book shop manchester *
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. Along wh lks to the Gay Liberatn Front, the not-for-prof bookshop Kg’s Cross was the birthplace of the London Lbian and Gay Swchboard (now known simply as the chary Swchboard), which provid a val lifele to queer people throughout the 70s, and was stmental sharg rmatn about the HIV/AIDS crisis the 80s and 90s. As one of the longt-nng radil bookshops the UK, Homans also has a history of stockg LGBTQ+ lerature, and like Gay’s The Word, the shop was raid by HM Ctoms and Excise 1984.
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Gay Pri Shop/The LGBTQ+ Bookshop, Manchter. Sharg their profs wh var LGBTQ+ chari, the Gay Pri Shop, loted Manchter’s Northern Quarter, is a place to pick up all your Pri paraphernalia, along wh fancy drs, stickers, toys, accsori and ratns. Begng life as a bookstall the cloakroom of a gay dis, Lavenr Menace was an LGBTQ+ bookshop that operated om 1982 to 1986.
It was the first LGBTQ+ bookshop Stland and the send, after Gay’s The Word, the UK.