Jonathan Cutbill News Today

Peter Dorey opened the Marchmont Street store with Ernest Hole and Jonathan Cutbill in 1979 19 February, 2021 — By Tom Foot Peter Dorey, left, and co-founder Ernest Hole on the shop’s first day TRIBUTES have been paid to Peter Dorey, one of the founders of the pioneering Gay’s The Word bookshop, after he passed away on Friday aged 73. The store in Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, is the oldest LGBT+ bookshop in the UK and had to survive spurious raids by the authorities in the 1980s...

The Dorey and Gays The Word families February 18, 2021 Peter Dorey (left) with Ernest Hole. (Gays the Word) Peter Dorey, who co-founded London’s beloved LGBT+ bookshop Gay’s the Word, has died aged 73 at his home in Brighton, England. Here, his family and Gay’s the Word remember him. In 1979, Peter was one of a small group of LGBT+ activists, including Ernest Hole and Jonathan Cutbill, who established a small, specialist bookshop on Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury. Gay’s the Word was one o...