About Category Is Books

⚧️ Category Is Books is an independent queer bookshop in the southside of Glasgow. ⚧️

Started by a team of two trans wusbands, Bug (they/them) and Fionn (‘Fin’) Duffy-Scott (they/them), we hope to create a space for the LGBTQIA+ community to learn about, be inspired by and share in our love of queer books, art, history, activism, writing and storytelling. 

As queers that grew up under Section 28, it wasn’t until later in life that we started to explore our own queer history and culture in more depth - discovering in the process an expansive world of books, magazines, comics, zines, films and art, created by or with the LGBTQIA+ community - that was completely life changing. ✨ 📚✨

We were delighted to find a shopfront just round the corner from our home in Govanhill and spent a summer DIY-ing it up ourselves. The doors opened in September 2018. 

We stock new and second hand queer books, magazines, graphic novels, comics, zines and (lots) of badges! If there is something you would like to order in specifically please send us an email. We also run a home delivery service if you can’t make it to the shop in person.

We also run a pay if forward system if you are not in a position to buy books. Just use BOOKCODE SOLIDARITY in your order email to access this queer book fund, or find more information here.

For further information you can pop into the shop, read our FAQs, or follow us on Instagram.