Bookshop faces backlash for Pride display with person showing top surgery scars
A London bookshop has come under fire from critics (X/jan_murray)
A bookshop in London is facing backlash after featuring a person with top surgery scars in their Pride window display.
Amnesty Books in Kentish Town, London, has painted a window display featuring three people standing with linked arms in front of the Pride and trans flags.
Journalist Janet Murray, who spoke out against a similar display in a Lush shop this week, posted the image to X.
One user responded to the image, saying: “Vile. [An] insult to all real women who have had a mastectomy owing to breast cancer.”
But the post was inundated with backlash against her criticism.
Drag queen Divina De Campo said: “[It’s] called freedom. Some of us like it. You’re equally free to open a miserable shop full of your own misery.”
Another said: “It’s Pride month. Shops don’t just cater to bitter transphobes, they cater to everyone. Just stay inside if you’re this offended by seeing representation of other people that aren’t you.”
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