Posted on 05/31/2004 7:52:40 AM PDT by Prov1322
Gay Days is back, and this time it's coming to City Hall.
The annual weeklong gathering of gay tourists has attracted a lukewarm welcome from some local politicians and downright hostility from conservatives in the past.
This year, the downtown nightclub that was supposed to host the Gay Days kickoff party didn't open because of construction delays. Promoters decided to move their shindig down the street to another party that was already in the works: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's inauguration.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Total BS
How can someone just decide to move their party into someone else's, without an invitation? Are we now at the point to where the Fainting Couch Set can just crash a party and everyone has to like it?
They always want special rights. This is probably the reason one of my friends told me she's leaving town and won't be working in the area.
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Homosexual Agenda Ping - Perhaps Orlando is not the most family oriented city in the world...?
What does Orlando's mayor think of all this? I hope whatever conservatives still live there create a ruckus.
Since the radical homosexuals obviously want confrontation in order to defeat the natural order, I say - Bring It On!!
The destroyers of morality started this fight. They must get defeated.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
How does anyone prove that they're gay?
The state's top civil rights official has ruled that taverns cannot offer discounts to women on "ladies nights," agreeing with a man who claimed such gender-based promotions discriminated against men.
David R. Gillespie said it was not fair for women to get into the Coastline nightclub for free and receive discounted drinks while men paid a $5 cover charge and full price for drinks.
In his ruling Tuesday, J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, director of the state Division on Civil Rights, rejected arguments by the nightclub that ladies nights were a legitimate promotion. Commercial interests do not override the "important social policy objective of eradicating discrimination," he ruled.
Gov. James E. McGreevey criticized the decision, calling it "bureaucratic nonsense."
"It is an overreaction that reflects a complete lack of common sense and good judgment," McGreevey said in a statement.
The governor does not have the authority directly rescind the ruling. But he met with state Attorney General Peter C. Harvey on Wednesday, telling him that the civil rights division had better things to do with its time, said Micah Rasmussen, a spokesman for McGreevey.
A spokesman for Harvey did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The ruling specifically addressed the weekly ladies nights at the Coastline in Cherry Hill, but it carries the force of a court decision and applies statewide. Vespa-Papaleo said state officials would write formal rules after a public hearing.
The restaurant's attorney, Colleen Ready, did not immediately return a telephone message left Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Courts in other states have issued divergent opinions on such promotions.
Judges in Pennsylvania and Iowa have said similar events are illegal, but courts in Illinois and Washington state have said that ladies nights are permissible because they do not discriminate against men but rather encourage women to attend.
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