A gay couple alleges they were booted from Cardiff, Wales nightclub DC after they were seen kissing.
Oliver Brown, 21, and his boyfriend Hugh, 22, both students at Cardiff Metropolitan University, claim they were grabbed by another patron of the bar after their embrace and promptly ejected from the club.
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According to their version of events, a homophobic slur was also hurled their way.
The club naturally contends their story is made up. Richard Jackson, the owner, accuses the two of “spraying drinks around” at at office party. He says they were warned, but were thrown out when they continued spraying their drinks. How does one spray a drink, exactly? We aren’t entirely sure.
Brown says he remembers things clearly as he was on antibiotics at the time and not drinking.
“They said we were throwing drinks around, which was totally not the case – why waste alcohol?” he told Wales Online like a true 21-year-old.
“If he had said he was kicking us out because we were fighting I wouldn’t have a problem with that,” he added. “But he saw us kissing so it was clear that was his problem, it wasn’t anything we had done.”
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Jackson says a third of his staff is LGBT and insisted his club isn’t run by bigots.
The incident is one of 29 complaints police have cited in a request for the club’s license to be reviewed. Among them are assaults and underage drinking. The drinking age in the U.K. is 18 — sounds messy.
gskorich
it’s sad when the gay community uses the gay card instead of taking responsibility for what they have done.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Does flagging posters like gskorich work? I mean, are they banned from this site or is it useless?
Avery Alvarez
It doesn’t matter some of your staff is gay.
If you see a gay couple kissing and kick them out, that’s homophobic, because there is not way they would do that to a straight couple.
Is the comment about his staff his own version of “But I have gay friends…”
DavidIntl
It would be nice to really know the whole story. I have never been thrown out of a club for kissing a partner, but I have drawn unwanted attention for it – even when straight couples were doing the same and more right next to us, so these guys’ story seems perfectly plausible to me. My partner and I also once tried to go to a very non-selective club, with a large group of straight friends, and we alone were not admitted, on the excuse that we ‘appeared intoxicated’ (when we hadn’t been drinking at all, and they had). I can only assume that the reason we were singled out was because we were gay (though we weren’t particularly blatant about that). So, even in relatively progressive parts of the world, there are bouncers who could still afford to work on their acceptance…
Mykaels
Spraying your drink around is when you drinking it and then eject it from your mouth. Was anyone at Qweerty ever a teen?
jason smeds
Bigots often make excuses to be bigots. They will cite a pretext rather than the real reason for their actions. Male homosexuality is often victimized because bigots find it offensive. When I say bigots, I mean both men and women.
Billy Budd
I think it is MORE probable that the boys are telling the truth.
Raphael
@Avery Alvarez: yes
Paco
My outrage is on hold for two weeks. Just in case there is more to the story. Seems like there always is.
jwtraveler
@gskorich: It’s sad when self-hating queers attack other gays and make excuses for homophobia without knowing the facts about an incident.
Giancarlo85
@gskorich: And where you there? So how the fuck would you know what happened? Take your self hating crap somewhere else.
cflekken
The only true way to know what happened is from eyewitness accounts and from security camera footage. Otherwise, it’s all just speculation, and a “he said/he said” situation, as there are two very divergent sides to this story.
Clark35
@Avery Alvarez: I’ve been in gay/LGBT bars where guys were making out and the staff kicked them out and told them to get a room.
DavidIntl
@Clark35: We must live in different societies. In gay venues I have visited around the world, even hands-in-pants groping is tolerated and commonplace.
Giancarlo85
@Clark35: LOL.
You’re kidding me right?
I’ve been in gay bars and clubs in LA (Hollywood and Weho) and I never seen that. What bars werhe you been in? Are you bullshitting us?