Gay's the Word (bookshop)
- Gay's the Word (bookshop)
Gay's the Word is the longest running gay bookshop in the UK, founded in 1979. It is located in Bloomsbury, Central London.
A number of celebrity customers supported a campaign to keep it open in 2007. [ [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1462206.ece The Times] ,"Celebrity customers campaign to save gay bookshop" , 2 March 2007] [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2039806,00.html The Guardian] , "Authors campaign to save Britain's only gay bookshop", 22 March 2007]
It was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts in 1984 as part of Operation Tiger, though charges were eventually dropped. [(Newburn, 1992) p.186] [(Watney, 1997) p.58]
Footnotes
References
*citation
title=Permission and Regulation: Law and Morals in Post-War Britain
isbn=0415046394
year=1992
author=Newburn, Tim
publisher=Routledge
*citation
title=Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media
author=Watney, Simon
year=1997
isbn=0304337854
publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group
External links
* [http://freespace.virgin.net/gays.theword Gay's The Word] bookshop
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