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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Discrimination? Yes, Please!

posted by on May 30 at 13:16 PM

Since the rosy-fingered dawn of buttsex, men and women of equally huge gayness have fought, fretted, and fussed in desperate efforts to win the respect and dignity that every sodomite deserves. Whether it has been for the right to have our love sanctioned by the state (a fool’s errand if ever one there was) or to kindly have people in Texas not bind our arms with old tires and light us on fire for fun, we have failed spectacularly. But welcome to fresh new day in our interminable and interminably gay battle!

While Seattle fags, dykes and others quibble and squawk over important things like parade routes, Australia (a dusty country born of criminals) has devised a more direct and brilliantly effective route to basic equality. Indeed, those lucky Australian gays get to do a little legal discriminatin’ of their own!

An Australian hotel catering for homosexuals has won the right to ban heterosexuals from its bars so as to provide a safe and comfortable venue for gay men.

Oi! Fucking genius!

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1

What if the guy that goes there is a closest case with a wife and kids? Or what if they are bi? Are they still allowed? Sounds more like a bathhouse to me.

Posted by just wondering | May 30, 2007 1:54 PM
2

According to their website, the Laird Hotel a few blocks away from the Robert Peel has enjoyed this legal status for some time.

Posted by Fnarf | May 30, 2007 2:00 PM
3

How do you prove it?

Posted by also wondering | May 30, 2007 2:31 PM
4

That opening phrase is the best sentence fragment on Slog today.

Posted by Ari Spool | May 30, 2007 2:43 PM
5

two wrongs always make a right...

Posted by Bellevue Ave | May 30, 2007 2:58 PM
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According to the people who work the door, "with experience you can tell". What it really boils down to is "no females".

Posted by Fnarf | May 30, 2007 2:59 PM
7

I'm glad to see this is mostly being received as a bad thing, even on the left. I've seen far too many pro-discrimination posts on several blogs, arguing that looking at or dealing with straight people is so scary or dangerous that we need to keep them out.

Posted by torrentprime | May 30, 2007 3:06 PM
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I think they made the wrong decision. Even if it's annoying to have women (hens?!) at your club, it's wrong to legislate against their entry.

We're all human beings and we just have to tolerate each other.

Posted by lame | May 30, 2007 3:27 PM
9

i would deeply appreciate it if all breeders would cease to post to this slog immediately. i'm TRYING to get a blowjob here. thank you.

Posted by adrian! | May 30, 2007 3:31 PM
10

"Hen night" in this context is not some bizarre slur but a reference to an organized outing by a group of (presumably) heterosexual women, analogous to a "stag night" for men. They go out to a bar in a group and get shatteringly blotto, and pretty damn raunchy, too. Copious vomiting is standard as well. Having witnessed this activity in person, I can verify that it is not a pretty sight, and I can understand why you shirtlifters might want to keep it out of your nightclubs. The article mentions ladies aggressively trying to get dancing men to strip for them, as if they were at Chippendale's.

Posted by Fnarf | May 30, 2007 3:37 PM
11

I guess what makes me a little wary of stuff like this is the fact that it gives homophobes justification to legally ban gay people from their establishments.

Posted by just a thought | May 30, 2007 3:46 PM
12

Gays just need to take a page from straight clubs and learn to bash breeders whenever they show the slightest sign of affection towards each other.

No ban needed, and equilibrium is reached.

Posted by Colin | May 30, 2007 3:56 PM
13

As a Melbourne local, my response was a well-measured WTF? And to be clear, the Laird has a "Male Only" policy. They don't care if you're straight, as long as you have a dick (and expose it on Underwear night). :)

Meanwhile, I did volunteer to be the guy that every other guy had to suck off to prove they were gay at the door. I believe my application is pending.

Posted by Avi | May 30, 2007 4:07 PM
14

I don't know how gay clubs generally operate, but I'm suprised they just don't have a door policy akin to the proverbial, "sorry, private party tonight" or "sorry, dress code" (which in this case I suppose would include PENIS ONLY ATTIRE) for folks they don't want coming in. (The Catwalk used to employ the 'ol 'dresscode' tactic to keep the usual Pioneer Square types out, I see it in SF from time to time, usually to exclude our version of the afformentioned).

I get the sense that someone must have really pushed them on this issue, since a doorman is usually the last word on the topic.

Posted by Dougsf | May 30, 2007 5:15 PM
15

people, i posted about this on my own blog stating that this is just going to lead to even more discrimination against gays everywhere. what's missing from the discussion is the fact that the hotel/pub got the state level governing body to sanction the discrimination. the government is allowing gays to discriminate against gays. yeah, so some gay guys want to party privately but did they need to get the government involved? i am just waiting for the next gay person in melbourne who gets turned away at the door for not being gay enough or male enough to try and complain about the discrimination. who will he turn to then? the state government could give a shit as evidenced by their current approval of this type of discrimination. good luck to the gay community now!

Posted by danny | May 30, 2007 5:37 PM
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@15, You are absolutely correct. What idiots brought this case forward?

Posted by lawrence clark | May 31, 2007 2:55 AM
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@10

Thanks for clarification, but of course the solution is not to ban straights or women, but to toss out women who are acting obnoxiously, and to stop serving them before they get so blotto that they can't be polite.

At least in the US - and I would be shocked if this were not the case in Australia - the management can toss out individuals for being assholes, without question.

So if women are demanding that men strip for them, ban those women for life. End of problem, and you don't chip away at discrimination laws: chipping away cuts both ways.

Posted by Litvinenko | May 31, 2007 11:41 AM

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