Had a great trip!
- Bought a few useful books! Some fiction books for myself and two books useful for COP. Queer: A Graphic History, and DIVA, a magazine for LGBT women. I'll look at these on my blog later.
- Talked to the manager! He was very nice and let me ask questions. I tried to keep it more like friendly discussion and not a formal interview, although I wish I could have recorded it some how.
- Talked about the film Pride (2014) and how the shop was the same as the one in the film. It was the headquarters of LGSM, or Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
- Talked about attitude changes, how parents are more supportive now and buy books for their children.
- Apparently they have to ward off straight men who come in looking for lesbian porn??? But shows how men feel lesbian relationships are for them to look at and consume
- He talked about that there's not as many books for LGBT women as there is for LGBT men, which reflects sexism as a whole.
- Talked about how when Alison Bechdel published her collected volumes, it was always an event for the shop and its patrons because she was so popular. They also stocked some of the magazines her strips ran in.
- Thank you Jim McSweeny!
Included this visit in my essay as shown below:
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