In Australia, lesbians are neither gay nor people?
From the department of "Things that make you go hmmmm" comes this doozie :
Gay Aussie hotel wins right to ban heterosexuals, lesbians
The Peel Hotel in Melbourne won an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to prevent insults and abuse directed toward gays in its bars and nightclubs, owner Tom McFeely told AFP."The hotel predominantly markets itself towards homosexual males, towards gay men and we want to protect the integrity of the venue as well as continue to make the men feel comfortable," McFeely said.
"When large numbers of heterosexuals or even lesbians are in the hotel that changes the atmosphere and many gay men can feel uncomfortable."
I would love it if this where a joke given the owner's last name is one McFeely and all I think of him being the insensitive evil twin of Grey Anatomy's McDreamy, but no ... 'tis true.
Goes to show women end up being second class citizens even within marginalized communities.
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Submitted by liza on 30 May 2007 - 12:19pm.
I get what you mean.
What I have trouble with is how the piece of news was framed --that lesbians are as bad as straight men and that now under the judgement they are not 'gay people' but a subclass of them.
I still think that the logic behind the judgement is dangerously prejudiced.
Going All "Mom" on You
because after all these years home with children, I can't relate to sex clubs and steamy, throbbing hospital elevator or linen closet action! To me McFeely is Mr. Rogers' middle name, thus the moniker he bestowed on the beloved mailman character in his PBS Neighborhood.