READING FROM THE SAME PAGE: Jim MacSweeney, right, and Uli Lenart
Photography Leon Csernolavek
As told to Thomas Stichbury
Books often offer an escape from the real world, a temporary time out from whatever issues or problems you may be dealing with. In many ways, Gay’s The Word bookshop provides that same sense of escapism for LGBT+ people. Situated on Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury, London, the literary haven is free of the judgment and prejudice members of the community may face elsewhere.