The gay lifestyle magazine Attitude has been dropped by major magazine distributor WH Smith who have announced that they will no longer be stocking it on their shelves.

Published monthly, and currently running a series of interviews with the top UK political leaders on gay rights issues in the lead up to the election, the magazine will however still be available from other retailers, with a statement released earlier today saying:

“Attitude will no longer be available in WHSmith on your High St. You will still be able to get your favourite read at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, WHSmith Travel outlets , Waitrose, Asda, MMRG (Martins), Morrisons, the Co-Operative and all good independent retail newsagents, who have all demonstrated great support to attitude magazine by expanding the number of outlets attitude is now available in.”

Having gained some incredible interviews over it’s 15 years, including the first with a serving Prime Minister when Tony Blair was in power, Heath Ledger’s only interview with the gay press and Robbie Williams’ when he left Take That, the decision by WH Smith seems like a strange one, indicating there’s more to it than Trojan Publishing have made out with their statement….