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Gay book shop vital
• ALL of us at Paradise Press, the publishing collective of UK lesbian and gay authors, have been distressed to hear of the dire financial situation you’ve reported at Gay’s the Word bookshop (Fight to save gay bookstore, Mar 30).
We’ve been passing the worrisome news around our friends and networks, in hopes that funds enough might yet come in, to keep up this invaluable national resource.
As a small, grassroots, community publishing initiative (grown out of the longstanding Gay Authors Workshop) Paradise Press has drawn immense support from the clued-up staff at Marchmont Street, in finding readers for our hugely varied books.
From queer commandos, disabled lesbians, the new man in Old Steine, through ghostly ‘Queer Haunts,’ to the 1950s purge – beyond selling all the cool zines, novels, poetry and story anthologies we’ve published over the years, friendly Gay’s The Word staff have often stayed late without pay, to host some wildly successful launch and reading events, bringing swathes of new lesbian and gay writers into print.
Try getting that from a chain bookshop.
IAN STEWART
Co-ordinator
Paradise Press
Golden Square, W1F
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