Peel Wins The Right to Ban Straights
The Peel Hotel, a gay bar in Melbourne has won the right, for the first time in Australian history, to refuse entry to heterosexuals in a landmark ruling at the state planning tribunal. The Peel Hotel applied to ban straight men and women to try to prevent “sexually based insults and violence” towards its gay patrons. The tribunal last week granted the pub an exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act, effectively prohibiting entry to non-homosexuals.
“Sometimes heterosexual groups and lesbian groups insult and deride and are even physically violent towards the gay male patrons. Some women even booked hens’ nights at the venue using the gay patrons as entertainment. 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,”
“(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.” [Source]
Written by TechStickle on May 29th, 2007 with
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#1. July 24th, 2007, at 7:49 AM.
It is surely a “landmark case” and am glad that it has been upheld, far to often do “straights” use us as a “sence of amusement”,hopefully this will show we are not the “unpaid entertainment” for; gigling hen-parties and an easy target for amusement and violence !
Robert.