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!

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!!!! @alisonbechdel.bsky.social

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

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!

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!

!! 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

We see you! #transdayofvisibility #transdayofvisibility🏳️‍⚧️

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 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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

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

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!

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

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