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The Portal Bookshop
@portalbookshop.bsky.social
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Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
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The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 14
Where to find us:

In person! 5 Patrick Pool, York, YO1 8BB

Website! (With indie and import books) http://the-portal-bookshop.square.site

Other website! (With everything available through the UK wholesaler) http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/portalbookshop

Other social media! Portalbookshop everywhere
Home | The Portal Bookshop
Sci-fi, Fantasy and LGBTQIA books sold by a York based Independent Bookstore. We take Pre-Orders and Import US titles too.
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argonautbooks.bsky.social
We need your help.

@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.

Please read on for more information

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...

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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🥳 I have one copy left in the dealers hall tomorrow before 1pm! #WorldFantasyConvention2025
britfantasysoc.bsky.social British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 27d
And the winner is Frances White for Voyage of the Damned
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Here to support the heterosexual community at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

I'm an ally 🫡
A tiny box of sci-fi books on the floor next to a bookcase, with a handwritten sign on the box reading "Heterosexual books! 10% off!"
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Asexuality in Fantasy book recs included:

Claudie Arseneault
Claire Kann
Darcie Little Badger

Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
Vicious; Vengeful - VE Schwab
Perfect Assassin - KA Doore
Not Your Backup - CB Lee
Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso

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#WorldFantasyConvention2025
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Alright @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social, we are ready 🫡 You can start now
The Portal Bookshop stall, laden with so many books
October 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I'm so excited for this event!
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Still time to get a signed book dedicated to you or a friend!

The event is tonight, gonna be fun :) Still a few tickets left
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
portalbookshop.bsky.social
Event tomorrow (off site, too big for here 😅) with Tasha Suri, CL Clark, Francesca May, and VL Bovalino!

Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/yorkl...

If you can't make it grab the books online and note in the order what name you'd like it dedicated to!

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Buy tickets – In Your Orbit: the Romantasy Authors Queering the Genre for Good – The Citadel
In Your Orbit: the Romantasy Authors Queering the Genre for Good – The Citadel, Wed 29 Oct 2025 - York Literature Festival are delighted to partner with Orbit and Portal Bookshop to deliver an excitin...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
portalbookshop.bsky.social
New window display, for no reason at all 🫡
Bookcase in the window of Portal, showing 9 books, titled in order: This is how I fight Unbroken You don't have what it takes to be my nemesis I was born for this Not for the faint of heart Something to be proud of I hope we choose love We make it better I wish you all the best
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Did you see the mega bundle for #AceWeek ?? Did you look at those books? Because I have read a significant chunks of them, and they alone would be worth the $50

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🌈📚 #AsexualBooks #QueerSFF
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Got some new badges 👀
A corkboard absolutely chock full of small and large badges covering disability rights, trans inclusion, antifascist action, neurodiversity, and a wide variety of LGBTQ+ identities, plus some for allies
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Asexual bouquet! I still don't quite know what merited flowers but happy bookshop day to us I guess :)
An asexual bouquet of flowers, with white, off white, Imperial purple and deep purple flowers
October 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Just did a sloth sticker restock at @portalbookshop.bsky.social including refilling the flag sloths and adding the dnd sloths! Also available at my etsy in now much more limited numbers: illustratedjaishop.etsy.com
A photograph of six stacks of stickers laid out in two rows. Each sticker is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally with their hands on their hips and a pride flag waving behind them. The flags on the top row are bisexual, non-binary and lesbian; the flags on the bottom row are transgender, asexual and the progress pride flag. The background is a green and yellow craft cutting board. A photograph of ten stickers laid out in two rows. Each of the stickers is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally, dressed as a dungeons and dragons class. On the top row there are: wizard, artificer, bard, paladin and cleric. On the bottom row are: druid, ranger, barbarian, monk and rogue. The background is brown craft paper.
October 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It's Bookshop Day! Get down to your local independent bookshop and buy a book or three. No local bookshop? Snap up a book with us 10-12 October and you could WIN a £250 gift card.

EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
October 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Never quite sure how to react when iconic LGBT+ figures who've helped shape my life come by the shop...
a woman says " everybody be cool be cool "
Alt: Amy from Brooklyn 99, visibly tense, vehemently says "Everybody be cool, be cool!"
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October 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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My actual wish is that my enemies figure out how to heal whatever splinter exists in their soul that causes them, and us, so much pain. They get one go at being alive, same as all of us, and they're so consumed by hatred for people they'll never meet that they damage the fabric of humanity.
August 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social

Heeeey so have you guys looked into this...?
mostlycogent.bsky.social Mostlycogent @mostlycogent.bsky.social · Aug 12
Same during my call- the wording I used was “non-explicit, legal, non-adult LGBT content”, and I got back the response that “yes, stripe is blocking this. We’re a private company, we make our own rules about it.” Was hung up on when I asked why.
August 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🚨 NEW 🚨

Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...
A copy of the letter. The full text can be found on our website.
August 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We already have our pins available in the ever-wonderful @portalbookshop.bsky.social. But does anyone know of any other lovely queer and/or nerdy bookshops, cafes or the like that may be interested in selling our wares?
Preferably in the UK, pls.
The Nerdy Queer at a market, selling their wares.
August 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
portalbookshop.bsky.social
The prize has never had this much publicity before. Things have flipped, from what I can see, and at this point I think anyone staying in is harming their sales
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Aug 11
14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn.

First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas

Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies

Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
The Polari first prize Longlist with books by Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas crossed out to show they've withdrawn The Polari Prize Longlist with books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies crossed out to show they've withdrawn
August 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn.

First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas

Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies

Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
The Polari first prize Longlist with books by Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas crossed out to show they've withdrawn The Polari Prize Longlist with books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies crossed out to show they've withdrawn
August 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped.

We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
August 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne.

Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
Polari first book prize Longlist with Sacha coward, Jason okundaye, Amy twigg, and Mae diansangu's books crossed out to show they've withdrawn The Polari book prize Longlist, with no books withdrawn by authors.
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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dei2dei.bsky.social
We are so close ($1.2k) from funding! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... A whole book full of cozy queer academia stories, and to get it to print we just need you! (and if you really want to make our day, help us toward that milestone of 2x author pay). Also, add-on stickers. So many stickers!
Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology
A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.
www.kickstarter.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
portalbookshop.bsky.social
Got a target for books to sell today, so trying to trick the hyperfocus into restocking the website (yell if you want anything in particular to jump the queue, folks)

Reminder, also, we have preorders up for the next October Daye book!

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(Pre-Order) Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire | The Portal Bookshop
Note: this is a preorder and will be shipped or held for you when stock becomes availableSilver and Leadby Seanan McGuireSeries: October Daye - 19Format: Hardback 400 pages Publisher: Tor BooksISBN: 9...
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August 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM