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Topic: UK: Gay Clubs and Straight Customers
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Crippled_Newsie
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posted 27 February 2006 09:10 AM
Times: quote: GAY clubs will risk prosecution if they deny entry to heterosexual customers under new laws intended to protect homosexuals from discrimination. Under regulations to be published next month it will be illegal for a gay bar or nightclub to exclude anyone on the grounds of sexual orientation. The full implications of the new law have caused alarm among gay rights activists, who are surprised at the perverse effects of a measure they believed would advance their civil rights. They are also worried that it could erode the atmosphere of homosexual clubs and expose gays to homophobic customers. “A lot of people are very anxious indeed about having to open their doors to what they perceive to be hostile straight people,” said Haydon Bridge, a columnist for QX International magazine. ... “Gay men are getting very annoyed because teenage girls on alcopops are coming to gawp at gay boys having a cuddle, and things are even worse in the sticks. I’ve talked to bar owners who have had to put security on the doors to keep straight people out because ‘lads’ are going in there to cause trouble.”
[ 27 February 2006: Message edited by: Crippled_Newsie ]
From: It's all about the thumpa thumpa. | Registered: Oct 2004
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thwap
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posted 27 February 2006 08:05 PM
Howz anybuddy s'posed to no?Don't straight wimmen go to straight clubs waren shirts that say "Leave Me Alone"? I s'pose tho, that just like bushloving reporter-stifling right-wingers became free-speech activists for a day when Islam is being mocked, they'll also become anti-discrimination zealots for an evening, .. before it's back to work denying jobs, bank loans, club memberships, to minorities and homosexuals.
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Reality. Bites.
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posted 27 February 2006 08:40 PM
It's generally a non-issue. We've had anti-discrimination laws in Canada (Quebec) since 1977, and there are still men's bars and women's bars. Bars of all kinds being something of a meet/meat market, people have little interest in hanging out in the ones with the "wrong" crowd. Pan-sexual dance clubs are another matter, of course.Most straight people have no particular desire to hang out in gay bars unless they have gay friends. Those with friends are not a problem and are generally welcome. The ones with bad intentions are going to provide ample reason to boot them out without their sexual orientation being an issue.
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Screaming Lord Byron
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posted 27 February 2006 10:59 PM
quote: Originally posted by thwap: Howz anybuddy s'posed to no?
I seem to recall that in Queensland under Sir Joh, when they had effectively banned gay bars by having laws against serving 'deviants', there was a spate of 'Serve Me, I'm Straight' T-Shirts. If you wait long enough, everything comes back as farce.
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Crippled_Newsie
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posted 28 February 2006 11:05 PM
Armed gang attacks British gay bar quote: An armed gang attacked a gay bar in the northern England city of Sheffield over the weekend, terrifying patrons and trashing the venue in what police have described as a homophobic attack.According to South Yorkshire police, five men entered Club X-es in Sheffield early Sunday morning with weapons, smashing windows, breaking beer pumps and threatening drinkers. Three people were hurt in the attack.... ... Detective Nathan Hoole said... ...that the gang shouted insults at patrons and set out to deliberately cause damage to the bar. The attack was thought to be over within minutes. "We believe they came with the intention of causing damage and that people who got in their way got assaulted," he said. "They came brandishing weapons, so this was pre-planned...."
From: It's all about the thumpa thumpa. | Registered: Oct 2004
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jrose
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posted 05 June 2007 06:28 AM
It seems a club in Melbourne won the right to "restrict" the number of heterosexual and lesbian customers granted access into the club, out of a need for safety and comfort of gay men who frequent the club. This differs from a club in Montreal who is currently facing legal action after asking a female patron to leave the patio, because they "do not serve women."Montreal woman refused service at gay bar says rights violated These are two very different issues I'm sure, but I'm curious to see some reaction on both of them. Listen to the latest Editor's Choice podcast for more background.
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