Cab and ride-share drivers are subjected to all manner of human behavior, from the innocuous backseat navigator to the slightly, moderately or extremely drunk bargoer.
As a passenger, there’s an expectation that unless you’re wreaking havoc, being an aggressive d-bag or (God forbid) puking, your driver is going to deliver you safely to your destination.
Making out is a gray zone. Not every driver is going to love their passengers getting busy in the backseat, but it also shouldn’t get you thrown to the curb.
But that seems to be what happened to RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Aja and his boyfriend recently in NYC, and Lyft has reportedly banned the driver from the platform as a result.
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Aja (a.k.a. Jay Rivera) was en route home with boyfriend Lizard Lemon late Tuesday night, when the driver booted them out.
“Me and Aja were told to get out a Lyft for being gay. Not kidding,” Lizard Lemon wrote on Twitter.
“The driver asked us to leave after kissing. In New York City. Really really disappointing.”
It may be a bit of a stretch to say the couple was kicked out “for being gay,” but apparently the complaint was enough for Lyft to take swift action against the driver.
“We have zero tolerance for any type of discrimination on our platform, and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and welcoming community,” a spokesperson said.
“What is being described here is against our terms of service and our values as a company.
“As soon as this incident was brought to our attention, we reached out to the passengers to offer our support.
“The driver has been deactivated from the Lyft platform.”
Thoughts? One less homophobe interacting with customers, or does something not quite add up here?
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Josh447
Wouldn’t this be more appropriate published at a site for drag queens?
jkb
Gay site – check
Two gay men- check
Unequal treatment-check
Not sure why a drag queen would be excluded from the gay club
Clay83
Why not log onto Fox News, I think that’s more your scene
ChrisK
Technically they can’t fire them since they’re not employees.
am_psi
What do you think the chances are that the driver belongs to a certain “religion of peace”?
DCguy
You mean the religion that Roy Moore and Mike Pence belong to? You know, since it’s people like them trying to pass laws taking away our rights and directly harming us and our families.
THAT must be the religion you’re talking about.
galileo
Agreed, those ‘peaceful’ Christian types have persecuted for hundreds of years, at least when they were not getting busy with the altar boys…
Bob LaBlah
Its serves them right in my opinion because they should have used a regular yellow NYC taxi. These Lyft and Uber drivers are doing it because the vast majority of them have car notes/insurance payments that they can’t make on their own so they moonlight as taxi drivers but are ill prepared psychologically to deal with the overall general public. A regular taxi driver wouldn’t have given one damn about them kissing nor “miss thing/ miss gurl” this or that (you know how we can get sometimes). He would have known his job is to simply get them to their destination and the hell out of his cab so he could pick up the next fare. People, if it aint broke, don’t try to fix it (as in taxi service). I pray to see the day Lyft and Uber go under/belly up.
Here, see for yourselves what an a-hole the owner of Uber really is and what he really thinks of his drivers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmsGqUQ8Uaw
Joseph
I don’t pray, but I can’t wait for the day to see the back of taxis. I don’t know if you’re trolling. But where I live in QLD, Taxi drivers are bad. The industry is mostly made up of immigrants who are working illegal hours on working visas and get ripped off by taxi car owners. is
Uber is half the price, the cars are cleaner, and the drivers are, because it is based off a rating system (which is flawed), drivers have to keep their standards up.
Bob LaBlah
Where the hell is QLD?
jjarodd
QLD is a state in Australia, it’s actually where I live too Joseph haha!
Joseph
I think he was being sarcastic.
jjarod, cool, im live in the city, i wish you could view profiles on here.
Professor O. G. Whataschnozell
May I suggest you learn English, typing skills and grammar before you respond to this or anything else in the future?
SiamSam
Or Spanish.
prarie pup
In general, I am a big fan of competition. For decades, taxis and were the only way to get around if you didn’t own a car, the bus/subway wasn’t feasible, and a limo wasn’t an option (if you can afford a limo, you can afford to own a car). Taxis held a monopoly and their ridiculous fees were a reflection of that monopoly; they were the only game in town so they could get away with charging whatever they wanted.
I’m not going to get into how much a taxi driver earns vs. what’s actually charged or how the taxi company owners’ are screwing the drivers or who’s at fault, etc. because that is an entirely different topic and is irrelevant to this argument. The BOTTOM LINE IS–passengers got screwed for decades. A taxi drive from Point A to Point B–six miles away–costs $42.00?!?! The expense of a taxi is a well-established contributing factor in people deciding to drive while intoxicated; then along came Uber and Lyft.
NOW the taxi companies have some competition–and strangely enough–that $42 ride now costs around $30. Isn’t that odd? What a coincidence.
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