How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

How Queer Bookshops Changed the WorldTravelling from Shakespeare and Company in Paris to Gays the Word in London to the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in New York, A. J. West has written the first history of these remarkable spaces. Tracing their evolution from under the counter operations to beloved out and proud institutions, West reveals how they stood at the vanguard of LGBTQ+ rights, offering support through the AIDS crisis and bringing the fight to Section 28. How Queer Bookshops

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