Crass Stupidity or Homophobia

[marshlander]

It hasn't reached our local branches yet, but I shall certainly be on the lookout for it. This is one of my pet peeves. I always look to see where gay lifestyle publications are placed. There was a brief period when the King's Lynn WHS put them at floor level. For the last two or three years they've been back on the top shelf, but since they are generally next to some military type publications I haven't made a fuss.

Colin may remember I spent months "training" a local independent newsagent to put GT and Attitude in the "men's lifestyle" section and not amongst the soft porn on the top shelf. The shop's owner admitted he sold more copies when they were placed where I suggested. That didn't mean he ever ordered enough copies for me to be able to buy one if I was a few days late going into the shop. For several months after they were displaying them fairly I used the shop as my first port of call, only going to WH Smith if they had run out. Sadly, I became so frustrated with new shop assistants looking for magazines amongst the porn titles and when they couldn't find them yelling to someone in the back of the shop in front of a long queue of customers I stopped using the shop. It was like being outed every month and some months one just doesn't need it. They could never claim I didn't give them every chance.