Gay's the Word

Established in 1979, Bloomsbury’s pioneering Gay's the Word is the oldest dedicated LGBTQ+ bookshop in the UK, and features in the superb gays-and-minders movie Pride. Stock covers fiction, history and biography, as well as more specialist holdings in queer studies, sex and relationships, children, and parenting. In addition to regular author readings and book-signings (think Adam Mars-Jones, Armistead Maupin, Neil Bartlett, Clare Summerskill), it hosts a range of different discussion groups where different sections of the queer community, some of which have been running for decades.