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October 06, 2005

WOW!...CHECK OUT THE RACKS ON
THAT ONE!

By Mike Shea
Cleveland Stonewall Democrats

In my line of work (magazine publishing) there is always, without fail, someone out there who doesn't like a particular band that we put on our front cover at Alternative Press. Some holier-than-thou punk kid doesn't like Fall Out Boy or some Hot Topic fan can't stand Coheed & Cambria. Blah Blah. The punk rock fight over "integrity" is never-ending.

SO.... what happens is that they protest that particular issue by moving it around on the magazine racks so it can't be found. They'll shove it in the back row under Hippies' Tunes Digest Monthly or they'll take a copy of another magazine they prefer and place it over ours to hide it. Happens all the time, believe me.

SO- when i was in my supermarket last night I noticed that where they usually had TIME slotted at the check out line it was buried underneath a mish-mosh of other magazines. They were all smashed in the TIME slot. I pulled them out and, behold, there was this week's TIME cover of "Gay Teenage America." Promptly and completely covered up so no one would notice it was there.

SO- keep that in mind when you're out and about. Look for this week's TIME and make sure it's not buried, covered up, moved into the black holes that exist on newsstands.

We're here, we're Queer, stop shoving EBONY on top of our issues...bitch...

Posted by Mike at October 6, 2005 11:59 AM