Gay bar wins right to ban heterosexuals

[rootbear75]

A Melbourne gay bar has been granted an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act in a landmark ruling which will allow security to refuse entry to heterosexuals.

 

The owners of Collingwood's Peel Hotel, which came under fire in April for promoting a gay Anzac Day party, successfully argued to the state planning tribunal that banning heterosexuals from the club would prevent "sexually based insults and violence".

 

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal granted the controversial powers to the club last week, the Herald Sun reports.

 

VCAT deputy president Cate McKenzie claimed that allowing straight men and women into the club would defeat the purpose of the venue.

 

"This would undermine or destroy the atmosphere which the company wishes to create," McKenzie said.

 

"Sometimes heterosexual groups and lesbian groups insult and deride and are even physically violent towards the gay male patrons."

 

McKenzie said some straight women came to the club because they found the gay patrons entertaining.

 

"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," she said.

 

"(This exemption) 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."

 

A spokeswoman for the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Lobby Group told the Herald Sun that gay men at the Peel had been made to feel like "zoo animals".

 

"This exemption was not sought to exclude members of the community but to try to maintain a safe space for men to meet," the spokeswoman said.

 

"It's sad that members of our community would have to go to the VCAT to preserve their rights.

 

"This is one of the only free venues with live music in the area, so certainly some people may feel a bit unhappy about the decision."

 

Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=269523

 

ahh.. i love the sweet sweet irony

Edited May 28, 2007 by rootbear75

[Cancer+]

Wow, that is just like racism. That would be like saying "Us whites don't want them blacks in here because we might call each other some names."

 

What reASSS.

[★ Dav]

Classic example. Minority group segregate themselves then play the minority card when they are mistreated and feel segregated.

[Incomplete]

This is stupid. I'm not even going to say why, this topic will probably end up in the politics thread.

[★ 1587200]

That's just bull!@#$%^&*. If a club says they don't want homosexuals in, they're gay bashing and depriving people of their rights. But gays don't want hetrosexuals in, and it's a protection of rights. !@#$%^&* that. Where is this club? I'm going to go piss on it. What are they security guards going to do? If there's no hetrosexuals then security must be gay...are they gonna slap me or what?

[X`terrania]

This is madness..

[Incomplete]

Slap you with flowers....Or make you leave with a sore !@#$%^&*

[Shlazzer]

This is madness..

 

THIS IS SPARTA!!!

[★ Ceiu]

Clearly, DeathPlus is involved.

[⛊ Drake7707]

its the same with men clubs not allowing women and vice versa. Besides, altough it may smell like racism, i think it's better this way to avoid fights between them (you just know thats gonna happen if you allow them)

[Incomplete]

But its the principle! Although that may be true drak

 

If we did a bar that ddnt allowed homosexuals in then they would probably be able to sue for money or something!

[rootbear75]

sur for money? surf?

[ESCANDAL0SA]

honestly...who cares?

 

what kinda straight man would wanna go into a gay bar anyway?

most of the men i know are homophobic.

[Incomplete]

But its still the principle.

[Cancer+]

Who said its a gay bar? Why can't it just be a bar?

 

 

So many people talk about not wanting racism or "welcoming" gays into the world, but then they pull this !@#$%^&*. This clearly says that gays are different than straights and therefore cannot survive together. Some straight guy should sue them, he could win.

[rootbear75]

okay, i originally didnt mean to start a discussion on this, but it obviously has started..

someone move this to the Politics thread

[Adam=-]

GAYS HAVE NO SAY.

 

 

 

 

 

Joke.

[★ D1st0rt]

Clearly, DeathPlus is involved.

[★ doc flabby]

It wouldnt be that hard to pretend to be gay if you really wanted to get in....

 

Like you can pretend to be over 21 to get into those over 21 joints.

[ThunderJam]

its the same with men clubs not allowing women and vice versa. Besides, altough it may smell like racism, i think it's better this way to avoid fights between them (you just know thats gonna happen if you allow them)

Ok even IF IT IS ok to rule this way due to the establishment being designed specifically for men, or for homosexuals, than any other establishments should be able to say "hey, we're aiming for a heterosexual client population" and therefore lock out gays. However you look at this, its completely backwards.