Wednesday, May 30, 2007
We Don't Serve Your Kind
Now this is almost unbelievable. An Australian human rights tribunal has upheld the right of a gay bar owner to ban all women, and heterosexual men.
Now that Australia DOES have a place for gays to go without being "harassed or vilified", does that mean that straight bars will be allowed to send gays down the road? Not bloody likely.
One can only imagine the outrage if a bartender were to tell a couple of gay dudes that they weren't welcome in his bar, simply because they were gay. There would be protests, and boycotts, and riots and all those other things that leftists call hobbies.
Update: A Quebec woman by the name of Audrey Vachon is launching a human rights complaint against a Montreal gay bar that refused to serve her because she was a woman (h/t). It should be interesting to see what happens in this case. If Canada truly doesn't discriminate by sexual orientation, she should win easily.
Human rights group Liberty Victoria supported the decision, vice-president Michael Pearce said.
"There are numerous places where heterosexual people can go," he said.
"I think what (the tribunal) has said is that there aren't that many places where gay people can go and meet without the risk of being harassed or vilified, and that they are entitled to have their own spaces to do that in."
Now that Australia DOES have a place for gays to go without being "harassed or vilified", does that mean that straight bars will be allowed to send gays down the road? Not bloody likely.
One can only imagine the outrage if a bartender were to tell a couple of gay dudes that they weren't welcome in his bar, simply because they were gay. There would be protests, and boycotts, and riots and all those other things that leftists call hobbies.
Update: A Quebec woman by the name of Audrey Vachon is launching a human rights complaint against a Montreal gay bar that refused to serve her because she was a woman (h/t). It should be interesting to see what happens in this case. If Canada truly doesn't discriminate by sexual orientation, she should win easily.
Labels: Audrey Vachon, Australia, Canadian Justice, Human Rights, Quebec
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I live next to the gay district in Vancouver and often go down to the local pubs, sometimes with my girlfriend. I've never had a problem or even made to feel unwelcome.
It would be a shame if bars here started discriminating. I know several straight girls who love going to gay night clubs because they feel like they can dance and party without being hit on.
It would be a shame if bars here started discriminating. I know several straight girls who love going to gay night clubs because they feel like they can dance and party without being hit on.
Ya Chris, I agree. It also seems to me, though I may be mistaken, that Winnipeg's only "after hours" club is a gay bar, which naturally will attract all kinds of people.
The last I checked, Canada wasn't an "us vs. them" society.
The last I checked, Canada wasn't an "us vs. them" society.
i'm opening a bar that only serves women with a D cup. And men are only allowed in if accompanied by 2 or more women with said D cup.
It makes no sense that this woman in Montreal feels entitled to be served at a bar like LeStud. Gay men don't exist to entertain straight women. The bar's policy may be discrimination under the law, but there is nothing ethically wrong gay men wanting to preserve cultural spaces beyond the reach of heterosexual authority. THe fact that Ms. Vachon and her father feel "accepting" of gay is beside they point--they act as if gay culture should be all about THEM, a if we're a bunch of pathetic urchins waiting for a pat on the head from "accepting" straights.
As a gay man I consider myself an absolut equal to all straights and therefore their acceptance doesn't concern me--they don't have the moral authority to approve or disapprove of equals. So the real issue in Montreal is that hyper-privileged straight girl has been told that there is one small place in the world that doesn't revolve around her, and she's behaving like a spoiled child about it.
As a gay man I consider myself an absolut equal to all straights and therefore their acceptance doesn't concern me--they don't have the moral authority to approve or disapprove of equals. So the real issue in Montreal is that hyper-privileged straight girl has been told that there is one small place in the world that doesn't revolve around her, and she's behaving like a spoiled child about it.
I agree with you Sartoris. But as a gay man, would you feel the same way if a bar refused to serve gays?
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