Montreal Woman Sues Gay Bar For Kicking Her Out

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by macallan25

My comments were more about the fact that I find it simply ridiculous that parents would take their child to a gay bar and find it perfectly normal and acceptable.

macallan25, no one is saying that this place would be suitable for a "child" (i.e. someone aged 0-17), but the daughter in this case is 20 years old. She and her father are both adults and could have chosen to go somewhere else if the supposed TV displays offended them (and as RACooper pointed out earlier in the thread, there would have been no porn airing anyway, as it was the late-afternoon. I suspect that the journalist threw the detail in, about pornography being shown on TV screens, to contribute to the sensationalism of the story). It would appear that they chose to stay, so I guess they weren't offended by the supposed pornography on the TVs (and chances are, there was NO PORN BEING SHOWN AT THAT TIME OF DAY as it was the daytime)...but hey, based on their names and the fact that this happened in Montreal, they are "French" after all (French-Canadian, that is)....LOL

[RACooper]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

macallan25, no one is saying that this place would be suitable for a "child" (i.e. someone aged 0-17), but the daughter in this case is 20 years old. She and her father are both adults and could have chosen to go somewhere else if the TV displays offended them. It would appear that they chose to stay, so I guess they weren't offended by pornography...hey, based on their names and the fact that this happened in Montreal, they are "French" after all (French-Canadian, that is)....LOL

I feel it's only fair to point out again that while the place would show porn on the "party nights" it wasn't during the day when the sidewalk patio was open, and when the woman in question and her father visited the place to take advantage of said patio.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by RACooper

I feel it's only fair to point out again that while the place would show porn on the "party nights" it wasn't during the day when the sidewalk patio was open, and when the woman in question and her father visited the place to take advantage of said patio.

Yes, I was just going to say that the article states that they were there in the late-afternoon, so going by what you say, there was no porn airing at that time of day anyway. And yes, daytime operations are very different from the nighttime operations.

[UGAalum94]

From the article:

"Montreal's Gay Chamber of Commerce and Société de développement commercial du Village called on Le Stud to "respect the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms," which bans discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation."

So while some of us might find some occasions of discrimination based on sex acceptable, gyms and sororities spring to mind, they apparently don't let bars in Quebec which are generally open to the public discriminate in this way and I hope she sues the chaps off them.

Just because you were a group previously discriminated against doesn't make discriminating against others in public accommodation a good thing.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

Yes, I was just going to say that the article states that they were there in the late-afternoon, so going by what you say, there was no porn airing at that time of day anyway. And yes, daytime operations are very different from the nighttime operations.

But the daytime operations weren't so different that they would allow a woman to stay. Interesting, I think.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

But the daytime operations weren't so different that they would allow a woman to stay. Interesting, I think.

But maybe if women are in there during the daytime, what if they want to stay until closing time and they can't kick them out so that the gay men will feel more comfortable getting their freak started with each other? Who knows.....

And in other news, a man is demanding to join that womens only fitness club (and I use the term "fitness club" loosely), "Curves".
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=34246&sc=89

Oy......

[UGAalum94]

I think the main difference is that the bar would be public and open to all men but no women and the fitness clubs, while not particularly exclusive, are private and have somewhat more limited memberships, but I don't know.

If you have an absolute no discrimination policy, then you've got to let all interested parties join, sit on the patio with dad, whatever.