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@louiseradnofsky and @cwbstephens came by to sign copies of their book, The Light of Day: The first man to come out at the dawn of gay liberation! Come by to grab your signed copy before it’s gone. 📚🏳️‍🌈

#authorsigning #lgbtqbooks #booksigning #barnesandnoble #georgetown by @louiseradnofsky

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Today is official US release date for The Light of Day: the first man to come out at the dawn of gay liberation!

Available from the best of bookshops, online, or as an audiobook on all major platforms.

Be gay. Come out. Save the world.

#gaybooks #bookstagrammer #lgbthistory taken in USA by @louiseradnofsky

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‘Sir, we are homosexuals . . .’

So began the letter penned by Roger Butler and sent to several British newspaper editors – some of whom were so shocked they thought it was a hoax – in June 1960. Writing such a letter seven years before the decriminalisation of homosexuality was a radical and dangerous move. It was a risk that set a major milestone in the fight for gay rights – one that has been almost entirely forgotten.

We welcome Christopher Stephens & Louise Radnofsky to chat at the bookshop with our very own Freddie Butler-de Lacy about this extraordinary story of the first man to come out voluntarily, using his own name, to the entire British public, a decade before activists started petitioning gay people everywhere to ‘come out proud’.

Taking us through a criminalised underworld of gay pubs, parties and activist meetings, The Light of Day charts how Roger helped bring about the legalisation of homosexuality, but soon found himself marginalised from the movement he kickstarted after losing his sight in his early 30s.

Years later, at the beginning of a new century, a young student is asked to visit and read to an old blind man. What soon bloomed from their intergenerational friendship was the trust of Roger’s most precious possession: memoirs of his revolutionary past, locked away in his home.

Roger’s final wish, sealed in a pink folder given to Christopher, was for this remarkable, hidden queer history to finally see The Light of Day.

Tickets are £5 (+ a small booking fee)
Includes admission and refreshment 🧚🏼‍♂️🍷

Bookings via the link in our bio ✨ taken in Kirkdale Bookshop by @louiseradnofsky

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