why are gays being so obnoxious lately? i keep hearing stories about how they acting all over the place and gay activists seem to be really pushy and uncivil these days gotta be frustration or something
The problem is, for a majority of this country's history, discrimination everywhere was considered a plus, not a minus. The majority of people did not "take their dollars elsewhere" when they found out there was discrimination, it generally attracted more people, higher "class" clientele and more dollars.
Hell, I probably would have refused them even if they were under the occupancy limit. If the intent of these "rushes" is to harrass my normal patrons, then I wouldn't want them in my bar. It would have nothing to do with them being gay, it's all about their intent. If a group of rednecks showed up with the same intent, I'd refuse them too.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6314562.html 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.” Logistical mishap The bar’s owners say the mishap that left people waiting in the rain was not discriminatory: It was logistic. With a capacity of 117, the bar could barely accommodate the group even if it were empty. 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. Monday’s meeting was meant as a conciliatory effort, with both sides hoping to find a silver lining in the mix-up. “There has never been an adequate explanation,” for turning away the gay group, said Jerry Simoneaux, a civil rights attorney who is working with the group. “I think there were miscommunications, but I think the bar was also using their policy as a pretext to keep the bar from being overrun by gays.” Facebook protest Simoneaux hopes to recruit Union’s management to join the gay community’s efforts to lobby for state legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate by gender and sexual orientation in public places like bars and restaurants, theaters and museums. Union’s manager said he would happily support such legislation, and he hopes for some acknowledgement that discrimination was not at the root of Friday’s problem. “We kind of feel like we were set up for failure,” he said. “I think it was just poorly organized on their part and poorly handled on our part.” The gay guerrilla event was organized on Facebook, the social networking site, where a batch of 200 original invitations had circulated so widely that 1,000 people had been invited by Friday. The aftermath played out on Facebook, too, when disgruntled invitees started two new groups. By Monday afternoon, “Union Bar Houston — We will not go there” had 853 members, and “United Against Union Bar” had 430 members. The ranks were increasing hourly.
