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Originally Posted by Mick Fisher
A hetrosexual couple having a snog in public might suffer the same fate, just have a laugh about it and change their local.  |
Well I imagine they might be rather embarrassed. However if was the case they were kicked out because they were displaying signs of affection rather than it being based on their sexuality then that's a lot less insulting and easier to shrug off. If, say, they were in a gay bar and where kicked out for their heterosexuality then they may feel a lot angrier.
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Originally Posted by Welshchris
This is it, im sometimes embarrased by some of these gay people who do something and then shout HOMOPHOBIA when they cannot get their own way!
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If your embarrassed than it's kind of your problem, not theirs. I might also feel rather embarrassed because it would be something I do not usually see and I would be very self-aware not to appear like I am shocked. However this is my problem and I don't think I have the right to tell them to change their behaviour to suit my own eccentricities.
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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.
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Heavy petting is different to kissing but if the landlord can prove such a thing, and I guess he could what with the other witnesses, then the gay couple would (should?) have been unsuccessful in their lawsuit. Still, two incidents of couples needing to be kicked out due to heavy petting within the space of a couple of hours? Must have been something in the air that night.
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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.
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See my first point. They haven't done anything wrong if it's simply because these 'older people' don't like gay people.