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gaystheword.bsky.social
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LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
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Gay’s the Word pop-up is NOW OPEN and just in time for Pride London. So come pay a visit at our temporary and rather spacious new premises at 58-60 Marchmont Street (10 seconds from our usual location) and say hi. Please note over the Summer of 2025 we will be closed on Mondays! Happy Pride!
Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books. Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books. Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books. Image of spray painted neon pink triangle sign indicating the location of Gay’s the Word pop-up location at 58-60 Marchmont Street
July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Meet Alison Bechdel - creator of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home

Spent: A Comic Novel - Book Signing

Gay's the Word Pop-Up Shop
58 - 60 Marchmont Street

Sat 21st June at Noon £5
Booking Essential: link.outsavvy.com/alisonbechdel

SO EXCITED!!!!
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A bight yellow graphic detailing Alison Bechdel’s book signing with Gay’s the Word on Saturday 21st June. Image shows the cover of Alison’s latest comic novel, Spent
June 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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TEMPORARY RELOCATION & REDUCED JUNE / JULY OPENING HOURS

Due to fire safety building works at the bookshop (66, Marchmont St) we have to temporarily move a few doors down the street to 58-60 Marchmont St.

In June we will have reduced opening hours: bit.ly/4jHS7Lz - please check before visiting
Image of the inside of the bookshop overlaid with purple text specifying upcoming days we are closed to the public. Click link for full list of days and more info!
June 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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The new version of our main shopfront sign is now up!!! It honours our mid-1980s, fonts and logos! We love it and hope you do too!
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Do you like our new retro A-board? (We are calling it the gay board). The design is based on our original A-board from the early to mid-eighties. Designed by Gay’s the Word and artwork by the brilliant sign-writer John Pope from Hastings. We think it is rather marvellous!
April 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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!! it's here

this was a total joy to work on -- a riso catalogue for Seized Books!, printed and stitched by PageMasters, phenomenally illustrated by Esther MacManus and with an Afterword by Michael Bronski

Looking forward to getting my hands on a physical copy soon
April 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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We see you! #transdayofvisibility #transdayofvisibility🏳️‍⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter in-conversation with Amelia Abraham

TUES 25TH MARCH, 7PM @ Gay’s the Word! Join us!
Tickets £3

link.outsavvy.com/nova-scotia-...

"This is going to blow reader’s minds. Intense, physical, true" - Paul Flynn

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The event poster for the Gay’s the Word bookshop event for Nova Scotia House on Tuesday 25th March at 7pm. Tickets can be booked via Outsavvy and cost £3 “Both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring pain of the AIDS pandemic and honouring the joys and creativity of queer life.”
March 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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What a total joy to meet June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces that Shaped Queer Women's Culture

Blending memoir, archival research and interviews June Thomas invites readers into 6 iconic lesbian spaces over the last 60 years! Superb! @junethomas.bsky.social
Link: bit.ly/43etnFV
Author June Thomas holding a copy of A Place of Our Own in Gay’s the Word bookshop Immensely readable . .. A celebration of what was - and can be - built, with all the hurdles and ecstasies.' - ROSIE GARLAND Close-up of the front cover A Place of Our Own 'Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important. A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces'Jam-packed with fascinating nuggets of cultural history, movement lore and gossip; riveting; indispensable; and suffused with a humane warmth.' - ALISON BECHDEL
February 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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So lovely to welcome double Polari Prize-winning novelist Jon Ransom back to the bookshop! A truly lovely and incredibly talented guy!

We have signed copies of both of his fantastic books on the shelves and the website

The Gallopers: bit.ly/4i6J46h

The Whale Tattoo: bit.ly/4kb3Ovv

#booksky
Author Jon Ransom holding his novels in Gay’s the Word bookshop ‘Ransom has written a hypnotic and even more mysterious second novel…This is a lust-drenched, ache-filled gay love triangle of sorts that gnarls into a sly emotional thriller. The Gallopers is a whispered howl of a novel’ - Guardian. Author Jon Ransom book-signing in Gay’s the Word bookshop 'With assured narrative, a vivid sense of place and atmosphere, and flint-sharp dialogue, Jon Ransom has written a novel that is bleak and brutal, but never sentimental.. utterly authentic and cruelly beautiful.' - Matt Bates
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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We hosted a special surprise proposal at the bookshop this morning before we opened. It was a few months in the planning…

They said yes!
February 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Some glimpses of part of the bookshop most people don’t get to see…our ramshackle charming basement.The feeling down here is very special. Tons of old, out of print queer books, our archives and office, old signage: ephemera of our history. We plan to restore and bring up to shop floor level in time
February 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Poet Richard Scott sharing a special reading of Still Life with Grape from his stunning new collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals

A luminous, uneasily beautiful set of poems - Rebecca Tamas, Guardian

#poetry from the bookshop basement

Signed copies: bit.ly/4gKwybJ @faberbooks.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM