Gay's The Word is the UK's first (and is today the last surviving) lesbian and gay bookshop. We stock an enormous range of books; from the profound to the frivolous, from the liberating to the indulgent. Our fiction ranges from prize-winning literary works through to crime, romance and erotic fiction. Our non-fiction covers a wide range of issues from cutting-edge queer theory through to how to tell your mother you are gay. Our range of queer philosophical, political, historical and other scholarly works is unequalled in the UK.

We are proudly independent and very much see ourselves as the friendly and non-judgemental safe-space of the gay scene.