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Europe's largest LGBTQ+ bookshop. Award winning. Over 6000 LGBTQ+ titles in store and online.
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Quick update from the Neuroqueerz team! 🧸🌈 It’s been an amazing few months getting things up and running. We’ve just wrapped a #SundaySanctuary with @wearequeerwell at @queerlituk in Manchester, and there’s plenty more coming. 👇 🛍️ Merch is coming to our website: T-shirts and our special bears! 💻 Our first virtual safe spaces for neurodivergent queer people who live in remote locations, or just don’t fancy going out 📍 Sunday Sanctuary in Soho, 8th November, 2pm–4pm with @queerwell at 55 Dean Street, in the centre of Soho We’d love to see as many of you as possible. Come down and join us! 💛 Tag someone who’d love a Sunday Sanctuary. 👇 🔗 www.neuroqueerz.com #Neuroqueerz #SundaySanctuary #Neurodivergent #Neurospicy LGBTQIA QueerSpaces Soho Manchester Queerwell
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William Keohane reads from the ‘Salthill’ chapter of his forthcoming memoir OUT THERE. Gender transition doesn’t happen in a clinic, nor does it unfold in a straight line. For poet William Keohane, it is a journey mapped across words, names, and the Irish landscape. As Will navigates the endless waiting for referrals, appointments, hormones, and surgery, he compassionately charts the many people and places that have shaped his life – both with their love and their willingness to change alongside him. At once sparkling and meditative, with prose of undeniable eddying force, Out There is a universal reflection on transformation and becoming, which asks just how much has to change before we’re seen as who we are. OUT THERE publishes 10 November in the UK and Europe, and 1 December in North America. #outthere #williamkeohane #authorreading #irishwriters #lgbtqwriters
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This Sunday we finally arrive in Manchester 💛 We takeover @queerlituk on Great Ancoats Street in 2 days time for our very first northern Sunday Sanctuary. We will be in Conversation, Luke - cofounder of @neuroqueerz_ - who will share more about their organisation and discuss topics around ADHD, Autism and Neurodiversity through their own personal experiences. This is a space to: 🧠 Ask questions 💬 Learn more 🌈 Contribute your own experiences and perspectives It will be a calm hub by and for LGBTQIA+ people to unwind, connect, and care for their mental wellbeing. Sign up via the link in our bio 🐝 #manchester #queer #lgbt #gaymanc #neurodiversity
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💙 A little gift for you! My debut novel, Louder Than the Stars, is FREE on Amazon for 3 days only — October 15–17! 📚✨ A slow-burn M/M romance filled with university drama, family secrets, unexpected twists, and the courage to be yourself. If you love stories that go beyond the romance and stay with you long after the final page, I’d love for you to give mine a chance. Download your FREE copy while you can! And if you enjoy it, a review or a recommendation would mean the world to me 🥹💙 🔗 Link in bio! #Bookstagram #BookTok #FreeEbook #FreeBooks #MMRomance Bright blue-and-white promotional graphic featuring the book Louder Than the Stars by Nich A Vale. Large bold text reads “3 DAYS ONLY” and “FREE eBOOK.” The dates “October 15–17” are displayed above a crossed-out $4.99 price and the words “NOW FREE.” The book’s blue, starry cover features white coastal cliffs, the ocean, and a red-and-white lighthouse, surrounded by playful blue stars and accents.
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⭐️Kinda chic⭐️ Should I have gotten this book? #bookshop #femaleauthors #sapphicliterature #lgbtqbooks🏳️‍🌈
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This Friday at @socialrefugemrc Queer folks read their REAL teenage diaries, angsty poetry, thirsty fanfic, terrible tumblr posts & more 🌈📖 Queer Diary is an open-mic style night - sign up now for your spot to share something on the mic 👀 "Hilarious, heartfelt, enlightening, and joyous... The room quickly transforms into a community, where shared laughter and collective recognition create something genuinely special." – Pro Life Plus "A space to look back on our formative years with laughter and kindness… Often funny, sometimes moving and heart-warming, always entertaining." – Reviews Hub "Funny, vulnerable and wonderfully communal... a queer space where our awkward younger selves are finally celebrated."– The List 📷 @greybeanieproductions Supported by Arts Council England 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Description: A Queer Diary audience of 2 dozen people or more, bathed in pink light. The photo is taken from the sids of the stage, so shows rows of people all laughing heartily, several people with heads thrown back and mouths open, with the stage speakers just in front of them. At the top of the photo, bright pink handwriting says "queer diary" with a heart over the i. Typewriter-style font spells out The List quote from above and the date/time (Friday 16 Oct, 7:30pm). At the bottom are the logos for the venue, Arts Council, and Queer Diary's logo (a rainbow bursting from an open book). A Queer Diary audience of 2 dozen people or more, bathed in pink light. The photo is taken from the sids of the stage, so shows rows of people all laughing heartily, several people with heads thrown back and mouths open, with the stage speakers just in front of them. At the top of the photo, bright pink handwriting says "queer diary" with a heart over the i. Typewriter-style font spells out The List quote from above and the date/time (Friday 16 Oct, 7:30pm). At the bottom are the logos for the venue, Arts Council, and Queer Diary's logo (a rainbow bursting from an open book).
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Some people change your life. Others make you question everything you thought you knew about yourself. ✨ 🌌 LOUDER THAN THE STARS by Nich A Vale Jamie Collins has always found comfort in the stars. Growing up under the strict control of his father, he learned to hide his feelings and keep his world predictable. Then he meets Theodore Lawson – confident, complicated, and everything Jamie never expected to need. Thrown together by university life and football, they discover a connection neither of them knows how to handle. What begins with tension and hostility slowly becomes something neither can ignore. But when their relationship is exposed, secrets emerge, loyalties are tested, and the past begins to reveal a truth that could change everything. Somewhere between first love, fear, and the search for identity, Jamie must decide whether to keep living by other people’s rules – or finally choose his own path. Because some connections are louder than silence. And impossible to erase 🌠 📚 ABOUT THE BOOK 📖 Genre: Contemporary romance, coming-of-age, university drama ❤️ Tropes: M/M romance, slow burn, opposites attract, forced proximity ✨ Themes: Identity, acceptance, family secrets, belonging and inner freedom 🌍 Language: English 📄 Length: 663 pages 📚 Series: Gravity — Book 1 ✍️ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nich A Vale is a contemporary Russian writer whose debut novel explores identity, acceptance, loss, and the courage to live authentically. His stories combine psychological depth, family secrets, and the invisible connections that shape our lives. 📖 READ LOUDER THAN THE STARS Available on Amazon Kindle, including Kindle Unlimited for eligible subscribers. 🔗 Find the book through the link in my bio. If you love emotionally intense M/M romance, slow burns, complicated characters, and secrets that run deeper than they first appear, this story might be for you. 💫 Would you choose love, even if it changed everything? #MMRomance #Bookstagram #QueerRomance #SlowBurnRomance #IndieAuthor
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Manchester and Queerwell have something in common; we both do things differently 🐝 We're so excited to be bringing our mental health services up North! Keep an eye out for all of our upcoming events, workshops and services 🧡 #manchester #salford #mentalhealth #queer #gaymanchester
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Queerwell is officially coming to Manchester 🐝 With Sunday Sanctuary finding a Northern home at @queerlituk , and a new coaching programme for students in association with @salforduni as well as all of our online workshops, there's loads of support available wherever you are 💛 We can't wait to meet you all! Check out what we are up to or book your free space - via the booking link in our BIO and join come join us at our first Sunday Sanctuary Manchester on 18 October 3-5pm featuring @neuroqueerz_ #manchester #gaymanchester #lgbt #queer #mentalhealth
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⭐️Happy Bookshop Day⭐️ Today is a great day to highlight some beautiful independent book shops. Here’s a small list of shops I have visited this year and a guide for where to buy your next read! #bookshopday #independentbookshops #manchesterbookshop #localbookshop
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Sign-ups are OPEN for Queer Diary - the night where LGBTQIA+ adults share our REAL writing from our coming-of-age era. You're invited to share old journal extracts, angsty poetry, thirsty fanfic, terrible tumblr posts - yes, YOU! 🫢 All adolescent scribblings welcome. No performing experience necessary! 🌈📖 EXETER: Oct 10 🌈📖 MANCHESTER: Oct 16 🌈📖 NOTTINGHAM: Nov 4 FAQ: 💘 HOW to sign up? Fill in our short form & Beth will email to say hi 🔗↖️ 💘 WHO can share? You must be 18+ to sign up. All LGBTQIA+ identities are welcome (yes, you are Queer enough). 💘 WHAT to share? Whatever u wrote in your 'coming-of-age' era! Could be old poetry, fanfic, stories, letters, tumblr posts, etc. NOTE: It doesn't have to be *queer themed* - we love to hear about your fave Doctor Who episode when you were 10 as much as we love to hear your crush confession from when you were 17. 💘 WHY? A fun, cathartic, community bonding experience. Plus, who can refuse a dare? 👀 The night is very welcoming to new readers & many return to share more after their "first time". Readers say: “A joy to be part of” "So affirming" “I got a huge boost from everyone cheering me” “You realise we were all as weird as each other” 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Supported by Arts Council England Description: An animation featuring photos of people & words popping up on graph-paper, featuring different photos of readers holding notebooks - laughing, cringing whilst reading into a mic. Words match the voiceover, with typewriter-style blue & purple text with cartoony fonts highlighting key words (Broadway-esque font for ‘on stage’, curly handwriting for ‘angsty poetry’, drippy letters for ‘thirsty fanfiction’). Diary-ish stickers decorate the pages (including the QD logo - a rainbow bursting from a pink open book, a glittery beating heart with an arrow through it, sparkling stars, and a road-sign at the end that reads “get in touch”) #queerdiary
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September Snaps📸 #september #dump #month #photo #life
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