'Our community doesn’t just come out during Pride Month.'
A queer bookshop owner has highlighted the changes he wants to see from major book chains as Pride Month approaches. Matthew Cornford says businesses such as Waterstones need to “step up their game” so queer people can find themselves in literature “all year round.”
READ MORE: 'Most of our generation can't even fathom buying a house': Young workers react to new deposit-free scheme "I went into Waterstones Manchester Deansgate a few years ago and very sheepishly asked ‘can you point me in the direction of your LGBT section?’ and they said they didn’t have one. “But our community doesn’t just come out during Pride Month. We’re needing to understand ourselves all year round and find ourselves in literature all year round,” he said.
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