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🧵For some years I was a senior contributing editor at Attitude magazine. That was a purely honorary title but I was delighted to have my name on the masthead and to be publicly associated with what was widely regarded as the world's best gay magazine.
I wrote for the first issue in 1994. It was launched by Richard Desmond, who later owned the Daily Express, and the founding editor was straight, but the first editorial was clear: 'We created Attitude because we believe the reading interests of gay men aren't being fully served' 
Attitude didn't overtly brand itself 'gay' in the way Gay News, Capital Gay and Gay Times had done, but the word appeared a great deal throughout the mag. Fast-forward to 2013 and here are a couple of random pages from the July edition. I've ringed in red every instance of 'gay'.
