‘Fabulous gay’ shop has defiant response as it’s targeted by egg-throwing vandals

The co-owner of a York shop celebrating all things gay has shared a defiant response to vandals who threw eggs at the premises.

Run by siblings Xander and Claire “This Shop Is So Gay”, which is described as “a fabulously gay shop in York. Welcoming to everyone…except homophobes,” sells everything that is proudly gay.

It has more than 27,000 followers on Instagram, proving its popularity, but on Tuesday (20 January), Claire took to the platform to call out vandals who had egged the shop’s front.

“When homophobia runs out of ideas,” text over the video showing the front windows covered in the contents of eggs read. 

“Our gay shop’s been egged,” Claire says in a sarcastic tone.

“Eggs are expensive! Throwing one at a shop window is a choice, and if your enemy is a shop window you’re already losing,” she adds in a patronising manner. 

“Anyway, we’re still extremely gay – come on in,” she concludes, opening the door unfazed. 

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The post has been flooded with supportive comments, with one person joking: “Ma’am you missed the chance to say EGGSTREMELY GAY.” The shop responded: “Oh that would have been eggcellent!” 

A comment with more than 1,000 likes read: “How f****** fragile do you have to be to vandalise a shop just because it isn’t tailored to you? I’m a man, Anne Summers and Boux Avenue exist, you don’t see me egging them or smashing windows up because they don’t sell things marketed to men.” 

“Cost of living!! How can people afford to waste eggs,” a comment with more than 500 likes joked. 

Many other comments united in praising the co-owner for her attitude towards the vandalism, while customers raved about the fanatic items they had brought at the shop, and others said they would definitely be paying the retailer a visit. 

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