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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTX restaurant: Will only serve "men who act like men and women who act like ladies"
Houston became the latest Texas city to enact legal protections for LGBT citizens on Wednesday, joining Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio. But in the East Texas city of Pittsburg, one restaurant is going out of its way to demonstrate the need for such protections, banning a same-sex couple from ever returning and citing a policy of only serving men who act like men.
After eating breakfast at Big Earls Bait House and Country Store, Collin Dewberry and his partner Kelley Williams were told by their server that they were not welcome to come back, KTLV-7 reported on Tuesday. She cited a three-year-old company policy printed on a sign at the door that the establishment reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, prohibits baggy pants, and requires that men act like men and women act like ladies.
The servers father, owner Earl Cheney (Big Earl), told a local reporter that while homosexuality, Blacks, [and] Hispanics were all welcome to eat at his restaurant, it was the duos public display of affection that lead to their banishment. A mans supposed to stand up and be a leader. Hes not supposed to be a woman. Hes not supposed to come in here in a dress, he explained. The couple denied the Cheneys claim that they had been rubbing legs and Cheney refused to show the reporter the surveillance video. Cheneys admitted his daughter told the couple the restaurant does not like fags.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/05/29/3442566/texas-anti-gay-restaurant/
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TX restaurant: Will only serve "men who act like men and women who act like ladies" (Original Post)
davidn3600
May 2014
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hollysmom
(5,946 posts)1. some of us women are leaders too - Ass stuck in the imagined past. Would not eat there ever.
lots of hate there. I don't like haters full of hate, ruins my appetite. Should ruin most peoples.
Richardo
(38,391 posts)2. I think I'll walk in there and fart, belch and scratch myself.
Guy's name is Cheney - go figure.
Omaha Steve
(99,733 posts)3. told the couple the restaurant does not “like fags.”
Gays don't like "BIG (little endowment fund) Earl" either.
klook
(12,169 posts)4. Is this the place?
http://www.bigearlspittsburg.com/
If so, from the looks of their website, it looks like a nightmare and a place I would never visit. However, they do boast these attractions: "...along with snacks, drinks, and as much fishing supplies one man would ever need, we also have a Cannon Ball that has been retrieved from the bottom of the ocean, a Dinosaur Egg from New Mexico, Ships Wheel, and much much more."
I'm assuming this is from the bait shop and not the cafe:
If so, from the looks of their website, it looks like a nightmare and a place I would never visit. However, they do boast these attractions: "...along with snacks, drinks, and as much fishing supplies one man would ever need, we also have a Cannon Ball that has been retrieved from the bottom of the ocean, a Dinosaur Egg from New Mexico, Ships Wheel, and much much more."
I'm assuming this is from the bait shop and not the cafe:
Wounded Bear
(58,718 posts)5. We reserve the right...
to serve refuse to anyone.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)6. Well they can just fuck right off.
I am female but I ain't no "lady" and refuse to play that role just because ladyparts.
And some of my favorite penis-bearing people wear dresses.
So fuck them and the big Texas horse they rode in on.