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Gay hotel can ban straights
28/05/2007 09:09 - (SA)
Sydney - An Australian hotel favoured by gays has won the right to refuse entry to heterosexuals, according to a media report on Monday.
The management of the Peel Hotel in Melbourne said they had applied for and won exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to prevent insults and abuse being directed at their mainly gay patrons.
In particular, the hotel raised concerns about gatherings of large groups of heterosexual men and of groups of women out for so-called "hen nights", said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The decision by the Victoria state Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) gives the hotel the right to refuse entry to people considered a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons.
Human rights group Liberty Victoria supported the decision, said vice-president Michael Pearce.
"There are numerous places where heterosexual people can go and I think what VCAT 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," he said.
28/05/2007 09:09 - (SA)
Sydney - An Australian hotel favoured by gays has won the right to refuse entry to heterosexuals, according to a media report on Monday.
The management of the Peel Hotel in Melbourne said they had applied for and won exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to prevent insults and abuse being directed at their mainly gay patrons.
In particular, the hotel raised concerns about gatherings of large groups of heterosexual men and of groups of women out for so-called "hen nights", said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The decision by the Victoria state Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) gives the hotel the right to refuse entry to people considered a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons.
Human rights group Liberty Victoria supported the decision, said vice-president Michael Pearce.
"There are numerous places where heterosexual people can go and I think what VCAT 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," he said.
Exclusion of straight women from gaybar
On a side note; I used to go to a gay bar with my friends in Quebec City(Le Drague), they accepted me pretty well(since I was a man, even if I was straight
)... but they were always mad at seeing girls coming to the bar for dancing.The girls were usually more... explicit while they were dancing than in a straight bar (and usually they were going on the speaker barely naked) and some girls were always trying to "convert" gays to have sex with them.
And Girls trying to convert gayman into a straight man, pathetic
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