LGBTQ+
We are proud to be queer 365 days of the year - we are queer run and owned, and we’re committed to LGBTQIA+ representation across all sections of the shop, from poetry to politics, memoirs to picture books.
We do have a large LGBTQ section bringing together books across genres and housing them alongside LGBTQ+ history and queer theory.
Proudly inclusive & intersectional, it is vibrant and global and it includes theory, biography, politics, testimony, essay and more. The authors in the section are as varied as Audre Lorde, Juno Roche, Alison Phipps, Mia Violet, Joseph Cassara, Rita Indiana, Carmen Maria Machado, Penny Pepper, Colm Toibin, Jack Halberstam, Alan Hollinghurst, Jeanette Winterson, and Virginia Woolf.
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A reproductive health-care library

So much to do, so much to celebrate: books for LGBT+ history month 2025

Gems from 2024: BEACON subscription box

Trans kids deserve Better: Drop the Ban

Gems from 2024: LGBTQ+ non-fic

Jess's top three of 2024

Mohamed's top three of 2024





readers need Tilted Axis: Tilted Axis Needs You

Butch ado about nothing: A reading list
From Scotland with (Queer Love) : Pride Pop Up at the Kimpton





Summer Lovin' - The delicious romance coming to the First Date Festival!

Myths, water and queerness: If you liked these books, you'll love these films

Queer Around the World: a list inspired by Guest Privileges

From the archives: LGBTQ+ history Month

Queer joy in Poetry for LGBTQ+ history Month

Phoenix's top reads of 2023
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A Nightmare on Elm Street + A Queer Horror Q&A

9 books of queer joy chosen by Lily Lindon

We Have Always Been Here: Writing Queer, Trans & Intersex Lives (Back) into History

This Barbie is plotting revolution...
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First Date x Indie Bookshop Week: Bolu Babalola
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First Date x Indie Bookshop Week feat. Laura Kay

Queer experiments abound

Exciting new Welsh books!

Trans Day Of Visibility

Other Fruit: Our LGBT+ Book Club Spring 2023!





Bi books for bookish bisexuals (and other discerning readers)

Cute & Rad: Where Schitt's Creek & Anti-Fascism rub shoulders

Trans Solidarity: Call to Action in support of Queer community in Portobello & beyond

Celebrating our pasts and futures: LGBTQ+ History Month

Splendid fiction with non-binary characters

Festive Trans Reads





LESBIANS IN FICTION: WOMEN LOVING WOMEN II

Catch up on the Book Fringe + signed books!

Graphic novels with LGBTQ+ characters: Lewis Hancox #LighthouseTakeOver

Queer Speculative Fiction: Eris Young's #LighthouseTakeOver

Read Think Act Ep. 15: Heritage and belonging with Fatima Daas

Visions of the World in a Letter

Graphic Gender Wonder
