Happy birthday to Gay’s the Word, the feisty little bookshop in Bloomsbury which marks 40 years in business today. Many readers will know it best from the 2014 film Pride, as the meeting place for the activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.
For others like me, it is the cherished place where we were first introduced to the full breadth and beauty of the written word on homosexual life.