DiamondDog
May 28, 2007, 12:39 AM
It sounds like a really bad idea and I'd be mad if I couldn't go to hetero bars/clubs with friends because I'm not heterosexual.
*sigh* This is another example of the "us vs them" mentality, and heterophobia that the gay "community ®" has that I don't like.
I don't like the idea of being seen like an animal in a zoo in a queer space or gay bar but I don't think that banning ALL heterosexuals is a good idea at all if everyone wants equality and equal rights.
Will it be like John Waters' movie Pecker when everyone starts going to a gay strip bar and the bouncer asks for "Gay ID only!"? LMAO
I know that in lots of gay/queer bars where it's getting popular for hetero people to go there are signs on the door that say "you're entering a gay/queer bar if you have a problem with that please leave" or the bartenders let the clueless drunk patrons know that it's not a hetero bar/club.
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http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/822/Gay_Bar_Wins_Right_To_Out_Straights
Gay Bar Wins Right To Out Straights
Local News, By Tim D, 28th May, 2007
A gay bar in Melbourne has won a landmark case allowing it, for the first time in Australian history, the ability to legally refuse entry to heterosexual people.
The Peel Hotel in Melbourne’s Collingwood applied to the Victorian planning tribunal for the right to not allow entry to straight men and women on the basis of preventing “sexually based insults and violence”.
Last week the tribunal granted The Peel an exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act that allows it to prohibit heterosexuals from the venue if it wishes. The Deputy President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Cate McKenzie, wrote in her findings that “sometimes heterosexual groups and lesbian groups insult and deride and are even physically violent towards the gay male patrons.”
She mentioned that some women booked hens’ nights at the venue using the gay patrons of The Peel as entertainment. “To regard the gay male patrons of the venue as providing an entertainment or spectacle to be stared at, as one would at an animal at a zoo, devalues and dehumanises them.”
”[It} seeks to give gay men a space in which they may, without inhibition, meet, socialise and express physical attraction to each other in a non-threatening atmosphere.”
The Peel has been in the news lately after weathering a mini-controversy over an inappropriate ANZAC Day ad featuring the image of a near-naked solider in a slouch hat next to a real-life memorial guard. And now, it seems, the Peel has been dragged back into the news by setting this Australian legla precedent.
*sigh* This is another example of the "us vs them" mentality, and heterophobia that the gay "community ®" has that I don't like.
I don't like the idea of being seen like an animal in a zoo in a queer space or gay bar but I don't think that banning ALL heterosexuals is a good idea at all if everyone wants equality and equal rights.
Will it be like John Waters' movie Pecker when everyone starts going to a gay strip bar and the bouncer asks for "Gay ID only!"? LMAO
I know that in lots of gay/queer bars where it's getting popular for hetero people to go there are signs on the door that say "you're entering a gay/queer bar if you have a problem with that please leave" or the bartenders let the clueless drunk patrons know that it's not a hetero bar/club.
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http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/822/Gay_Bar_Wins_Right_To_Out_Straights
Gay Bar Wins Right To Out Straights
Local News, By Tim D, 28th May, 2007
A gay bar in Melbourne has won a landmark case allowing it, for the first time in Australian history, the ability to legally refuse entry to heterosexual people.
The Peel Hotel in Melbourne’s Collingwood applied to the Victorian planning tribunal for the right to not allow entry to straight men and women on the basis of preventing “sexually based insults and violence”.
Last week the tribunal granted The Peel an exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act that allows it to prohibit heterosexuals from the venue if it wishes. The Deputy President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Cate McKenzie, wrote in her findings that “sometimes heterosexual groups and lesbian groups insult and deride and are even physically violent towards the gay male patrons.”
She mentioned that some women booked hens’ nights at the venue using the gay patrons of The Peel as entertainment. “To regard the gay male patrons of the venue as providing an entertainment or spectacle to be stared at, as one would at an animal at a zoo, devalues and dehumanises them.”
”[It} seeks to give gay men a space in which they may, without inhibition, meet, socialise and express physical attraction to each other in a non-threatening atmosphere.”
The Peel has been in the news lately after weathering a mini-controversy over an inappropriate ANZAC Day ad featuring the image of a near-naked solider in a slouch hat next to a real-life memorial guard. And now, it seems, the Peel has been dragged back into the news by setting this Australian legla precedent.