Les Mots à la Bouche is an LGBTQI+ bookshop, founded in 1980. It started in the 18th arrondissement, moved to the Marais in 1983, and relocated again in 2020 to its current address in the 11th, on Rue Saint-Ambroise. Since 2021 it has run as a worker cooperative.
The shop stocks around 12,000 titles: fiction and non-fiction on homosexuality, gender and queer theory, trans identities and LGBTQI+ history, alongside youth literature, graphic novels, French and international gay press, and books on design, photography, film and theatre.
It hosts monthly events with contemporary LGBTQI+ and queer authors, and describes its own approach as built around welcome and sharing, carrying its founding activist character forward as part of Paris's queer community history.
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