Straight bar permitted to ban “gays”
Posted on May 30, 2007
Reuters: Straight pub wins right to ban gays
An Australian hotel catering for hetrosexuals has won the right to ban homosexuals from its bars so as to provide a comfortable venue for straight men not wanting to associate with homosexuals.
In what is believed to be a first for Australia, the Victorian state civil and administrative tribunal ruled last week that the Peel Hotel in the southern city of Melbourne could exclude patrons based on their sexuality.
Australia’s equal opportunity laws prevent people being discriminated against based on race, religion or sexuality.
But Peel Hotel owner Tom McFeely said the ruling was necessary to provide straight men with a homosexual-free atmosphere where they may be free of increasingly aggressive advances by emboldened homsexuals.
“If I can limit the number of homosexuals entering the Peel, then that helps me keep the safe balance,” Peel told Australian radio on Monday.
McFeely said that, while the hotel welcomed everyone, its straight clientele had expressed discomfort over the number of homosexuals coming to the venue in the past year.
He said there were more than 2,000 venues in Melbourne that catered to homosexuals, but his hotel was the only one marketing itself exclusively to heterosexuals.
Yeah, like that would ever happen.
Real headline: “Gay pub wins right to ban straights”
“Right,” huh?
Earlier post on this topic: Colorado Springs neighborhood: we must stop this, “homosexuals are moving inâ€
Funny that the Left paints the Right as the NAZIs. What’s that about, “Takes one to know one?”
For all the answers, maybe you should ask someone in the “Gayborhood.”
Update: My bad…how could I have missed that the hotel owners name…is…McFeely.
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I’m all for equal protection and equal rights but I think the gay community has gone a little too far on this one. Even the liberal Washington Post is calling this discriminatory and writes that the Peel Hotel’s exclusion of heterosexuals is like “Rosa Parks demanding that whites sit at the back of the bus.” The article makes a good point. Seperate but equal is not equal.
I don’t have a problem with it. Straight folks who patrol gay bars are generally doing so with some pureant interest, kind of a freak show thing. My only problem is that the reverse would not be allowed.