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# Proud Geek – a new shop for everything geeky and LGBTQ+
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/proud-geek-a-new-shop-for-everything-geeky-and-lgbtq/
- Published: 2020-08-14T13:14:18.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-12T22:10:34.000Z
- Description: Proud Geek is a specialist retailer of LGBTQ+ entertainment and media, offerimg a wide selection of new and catalogued LGBT+ titles from the past 25 years
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Arts, Books, News, Comics, Films, LGBT, LGBTQ, movies

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[](http://www.proud-geek.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)[Proud Geek](http://www.proud-geek.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk), a specialist retailer of LGBTQ+ entertainment and media, offerimg a wide selection of new and catalogued LGBT+ titles from the past 25 years, has launched.

Proud Geek is an online LGBTQ+ shop with a focus on queer comics, books and films. Owned and run out of his home in Birmingham, **Tom Buckle** created Proud Geek after realising there was no online space for LGBTQ+ people to find entertainment and media designed for them.

He said: *‘Proud Geek was set up to help promote great titles, well-produced films, unknown gems and obscure queer media that you’re going to fall in love with. To showcase films where queer-coded characters don’t suffer, but thrive. Where people can find content created specifically for them. Where parents can find literature to help them understand gender dysphoria. Where everyone can find a superhero that they can identify with.’*

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Built out of a spare bedroom in Birmingham, Proud Geek’s aim is to be a one stop shop for everything geeky that’s LGBTQ+ centric: from sapphic fiction, to trans superheroes, to gay teen coming of age classics.

Tom added: *‘I think it’s important for us as members of the LGBTQ+ community to see ourselves in the content we consume.*

*‘Growing up gay was hard. Finding LGBTQ+ representation in media was even harder. I’ve been collecting queer cinema for the past 15 years and have always found it difficult to get hold of specific titles, so I created a space where they’re all under one (virtual) roof.’*

For more information about Proud Geek, **[visit their website](http://www.proud-geek.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)** or search for **@ProudGeekStore** on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.