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Gay couple claim they were ejected from pub for kissing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...ed-pub-kissing
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Only if they are shown to have treated the men differently on account of them being gay. If the landlord doesn't want overt displays of affection on his premises he is entitled to stop it.
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A hetrosexual couple having a snog in public might suffer the same fate, just have a laugh about it and change their local. :shrug:
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I know of a case where a gay couple were thrown out for heavy petting and took the landlord to court over discrimination, what they didnt realise was about an hour before they arrived a str8 couple was thrown out for the same thing and had witnesses to prove it so the whole discrimination thing was thrown out. The reason is a lot of older people drink in the pub and get upset by seeing this kind of thing but gays especially men can get very uptight if they think for some reason they have been done a wrong even if its them to blame i see it all the time on the gay scene and i fell like slapping each of them. I dont know if this is the case here and cant say if it is or not but i know it does happen. |
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Damien, if what they are doing is upsetting the other people in the pub gay or str8 then they are doing something wrong as a landlord will always go with the majority of the people in the pub.
This is what i was saying about that one i was telling u about, he wasnt at all discriminating he just didnt want the other people in the pub annoyed by it and they have as much rights as the ones doing what they were doing. |
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I think if they were told already about it. then I expect they were taking the pee the second and third time. probably exaggerating it all the more.
that's what I'd say happened, anyway. We'll have to wait for the outcome when it goes to court. I presume it's automatically going to be a court hearing? |
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Damien, I think you need to slow down a bit. Stop trying so hard to get offended on behalf of other people. You are making a pretty huge assumption that the landlord was 'suppressing' anyone.
This is not going to go any further unless the couple concerned think they can prove, on the balance of probabilities, that the landlord kicked them out for doing something gay. ---------- Post added at 16:56 ---------- Previous post was at 16:54 ---------- Quote:
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Now I do not know if he is gay but it certainly means he isnt anti gay I believe |
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Having been to Soho for a drink on a few occassions, and seen some of the punters there, I think he's probably working in the wrong area if he is homophobic. A couple of friends of mine had something similar happen. They are both Indian. One is a woman, and one a man. We'd gone out drinking with the woman to a favourite local pub, and she got a little loud (not angry, just shouting and laughing while drunk). The Landlord threw her out. We thought it was because she was being loud. A few weeks later, my boss, who is also Indian and certainly not loud (although he isn't shy and retiring either) went into the same pub for a quiet pint. He was also asked to leave. I am not sure what happened after that, but the chain that owned that pub moved the landlord elsewhere and eventually sold the pub. Ironically, it's actually a much nicer pub now, and they even happily serve my boss (the lady has long since married and moved up north). That case, I would say, is clearly racism. The case in the news (based on what is written) is not clearly homophobia. In fact, if it isn't homophobia and they claim it is, they are cheapening the plight of those who are geniunly suffering homophobia (you know, those being insulted or assaulted because of their sexuality) by comparing their experiences (which may be quiet severe) to a peck on the cheek. Also, it depends on the kiss. If it was a small kiss on the lips, or a peck on the check, most people would not be offended. If it was a full on frenchie with tongues in mouth and lots of noise, people may well have been offended whether it was man to man, man to woman or woman to woman. |
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