Posted on 03/17/2009 1:21:31 PM PDT by Buffalo Bob
Midtown lounge denies it discriminated against homosexual customers left waiting outside in the rain
Owners of a Midtown lounge and the organizers of Houston’s first “guerrilla gay bar” met Monday to try to mend fences after a botched weekend event left both sides feeling mistreated.
The “guerrilla gay bar” event was planned as an impromptu mixer of the city’s gay and straight communities at the Union Bar on Bagby. Instead of mingling with the bar’s typically straight customers, however, about 100 gays and lesbians were left standing out in the rain on Friday.
Some who waited said it felt like discrimination, as they watched straight couples and small groups enter ahead of them. Bar owners say the small bar was already largely full and that those small groups had their own reservations.
Organizers modeled Friday’s event on a national phenomenon meant to bring groups of gay people to traditionally straight bars in hopes of broadening both groups’ horizons.
“The gay community tends to stay in traditional gay bars, and part of the problem is our community is too insular,” said Kris Banks, president of the Houston GLBT’s political caucus and one of the people who waited outside Friday. “This is more to get the community out of our gay ghetto. It’s supposed to be a social event, and it’s supposed to be a good time.”
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I don’t get the concept of a gay/straight mixer. I thought the idea of a mixer was to get girls and guys together (because...well...you know, so they could dance). So, what are they trying to mix here?
LOL.
WHy try? If this was animal kingdom and I believe it truly is. The gays and lesbians would be one species that dies out (as they don’t use stupid scientific meddling to procreate as humans) and the straights would be another species that survives. They would not intermix.
With a serious decline in he number of homosexuals (high death rate you know) these guys gotta' advertise. They're always hoping somebody they meet is going to want to "try it out" or something.
2nd that
Oh boo-hoo.
“Someone Left My Cake Out in the Rain”
(Moronic PC idea #2,367.)
Organizers had originally reserved space for 50, and the bar set aside tables decorated with balloons, said a manager. The group that arrived at Union was at least twice that big, said the manager, who declined to be identified because he said he has received death threats over the weekend.
Gay organizers screwed up, showed up with more people than they had a reservation for, more people than the bar could hold without kicking out all the straights. Sounds more like the gay organizers had wanted to completely take over the bar.
Great way to clear your bar of staight customers.
Ewww!
Yup, the fruits gotta recruit.
I have a closeted engineer at work here trying to pull me over to the (vulgar reference deleted) gay side. It’s mighty irritating, and I’ve now had to get HR involved.
Ding, Ding Ding! We have a winner!!
Talk about not having enough sense to get out the rain.
Why do I keep hearing "MacArthur Park"? ....."Someone left the gays out in the rain".....
“Gay organizers screwed up, showed up with more people than they had a reservation for, more people than the bar could hold without kicking out all the straights. Sounds more like the gay organizers had wanted to completely take over the bar.”
Plenty of room available at the mental health clinics, rest area bathrooms and bath houses.
IOW they seek to intimidate
(why not flashing neon signs over them? are they really that stupid?)
The gays probably needed a shower. Or the straights needed one, since gays are usually very neat and tidy!
Oh, nooooooo.
Oh, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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