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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Surely some of the gays were waiters. Why couldn’t they have waited on the ones out in the rain?
See, there is a silver lining.
BTW a chicken has a head the size of an egg and it has enough sense to get in out of the rain.
Ever.
So, the manager is getting death threats? Dude, you're in TX, what did you expect?
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