By the way I hope I didn’t come across as too harsh in my reply. I think you do raise a valuable point: the amount of news, and information generally, that’s available online means that LGBT people don’t always feel as isolated or alone even in small communities as they once did, and an absence of stories about LGBT people in a community paper may not be a big deal.
And if the owners’ policy were unstated the guy could be given some benefit of the doubt. We could say, well, space is limited so maybe he’s just giving priority to broader community stories. The way he stated the policy, though, in addition to @transmothra’s comments removes all doubt as to who he feels belongs in the community and who doesn’t. And statements like that do have an impact.
