25/08/2018
The Bristol Comic and Zine Fayre is coming. The event will take place on Saturday 6th October, all afternoon at the Station Youth Hub, a lively community space well used by all sorts of non-profit organisations. The Fayre celebrates independent publishing, which despite the rise of the internet, is alive and kicking. What has this to do with LGBT people you may ask? Well, from the early days of the gay press in nineteen fifties America, there has always been a strong link between the alternative media and queer titles. Even the venerable, and now glossy, Gay Times magazine started life way back in June 1972 as a duo tone newspaper printed on the radical press owned by the Socialist Workers Party. Today, alternative and underground magazines and comics, often known as Zines, continue this tradition. Many LGBT people alongside pansexuals, asexuals and others that fall under our rainbow community, have found their voice through these publications. Check out the day and bring cash to spend on many interesting things to read. Incidentally, if you are in the city at other times and wish to catch up on Zines, there is a regular supply of them stocked at the political bookstore Hydra on Old Market Street, and Specialist Subject Records just over the road at the old Castro Nightclub building.
http://specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/
https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/
