London Gay Reading Group 🏳️‍🌈📚

A monthly book club for LGBT+ people in London. Authors come to visit us sometimes. Est. 2001

[LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @LGBTHM]

The Line Of Beauty author Alan Hollinghurst honoured with knighthood https://t.co/IS97fKkoP6

[London Gay Reading Group 🏳️‍🌈📚 @LGayRG]

Book at Bedtime, BBC Radio 4. Our Evenings, by Alan Hollinghurst https://t.co/zcl1fDYEK1

[London Gay Reading Group 🏳️‍🌈📚 @LGayRG]

World Book Club, BBC World Service - Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain https://t.co/qDwO95ZwfD

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@EuropaEdUK acquires a new novel by Guapa author Saleem Haddad 👇 https://t.co/OFDQsu3INY

[Londonist @Londonist]

"The world out there is very heteronormative. And to come into a space where you can just be is a joy. To know that you completely belong there and don't have to explain, it can feel like you've come home." https://t.co/BW3pbA5S1Q

[Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog]

Remembering the last men to be excuted for homosexual acts in France (1750), and in Britain (1835).
#lgbthistory #lgbtbooks

[A24 @A24]

The door is already open. Watch the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s spellbinding new film QUEER, based on the novel by William S. Burroughs and starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey. Only in theaters November 27.

[Damian Barr @Damian_Barr]

Prepare to fall in love with 'The Two Roberts'!
Artists, lovers, outsiders. My new novel from @canongatebooks fictionalises the wild lives of Colquhoun & MacBryde, who met on their first day at @GSofA in 1933. AND I'm curating a show @CharlestonTrust https://t.co/KGetVMdCnf

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

The shortlist for the 2024 Polari Prizes (@PolariPrize) has been announced 👇 https://t.co/drJMUfIWSn

[Books Are My Bag @booksaremybag]

✨📚 Happy #BookshopDay! 📚✨

#ChooseBookshops today and celebrate all the ways they make a difference to our local communities.

🎨: @sophyhenn

[London Gay Reading Group 🏳️‍🌈📚 @LGayRG]

Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, survey finds (19/08/24)

Index on Censorship said 53% of librarians polled had been asked to remove books – and that in more than half of those cases they did
https://t.co/Q0mjBJUl3y

[London Gay Reading Group 🏳️‍🌈📚 @LGayRG]

The adaptation of one of the books we discussed (lovely, btw) is coming. Very excited!

[LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @LGBTHM]

We didn’t talk sex, let alone different forms!’: Mr Loverman’s Lennie James on gay love, lies and dirty trousers
https://t.co/h1lGqw7m4R

[London Gay Reading Group 🏳️‍🌈📚 @LGayRG]

Current Book at Bedtime on @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/ntoq0dcPcN

[Stef Dickers @stefdickers]

BOOK SALE ALERT!! From tomorrow @BishopsgateInst, we’ll be selling duplicate History, LGBTQ+ & other books in the Main Library! Come & have a buy! Every day, 10am-5pm, until Friday 🖤🖤

[Nick Levine @mrnicklevine]

Straight Acting, the brilliant new book by @will_tosh, shines a spotlight on Shakespeare’s queer and queer-coded sides. It’s a fun, fruity and very insightful read. I spoke to Will for @AnOtherMagazine https://t.co/y4sn6Eb3eo

[Bernardine Evaristo @BernardineEvari]

Looking forward to discussing my 2013 novel Mr Loverman on 26 Sept ahead of the BBC's 8-part adaptation in Oct starring Lennie James #lenniejames as Barrington, produced by @fablepicsuk. I'll be talking to the novelist Okechukwu Nzelu @NzeluWrites for @guardianlive. I haven't done an event around this novel for about ten years - looking forward to it!
https://t.co/x1vWLqKRLq

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows https://t.co/IzUbfkfeqy

[Dan Ellis @dgellis0907]

In a world where JK Rowling exists, be a Jacqueline Wilson ❤️

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

Happy #Pride!

To celebrate we've collated a collection of some awesome new poems by LGBTQ+ poets to read on The Poetry Society website.

Read their work here: https://t.co/pankJwKrYN