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Aug 21, 2009 | Posted by: Paulathesurfmom

Lesbian Couple Asked to Leave MD Restaurant For Hugging, Return to Protest

Full story: lezgetreal.com

About thirty-five gay and lesbian citizens turned out last night at the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring, to stage an a oeeat-ina after a lesbian couple says they were asked to leave the Maryland restaurant last week because they were hugging each other. The couple also say they have filed complaint against the restaurant with the Maryland Commission on Human Relations. On August 12, around 2 AM, Aiyi-nah Ford and Torian Brown were at the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring, MD, when the restaurant’s night manager asked them to leave after showing affection for each other by hugging.

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“God hates me!”

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Sorry guys but that video did not show anything X-rated. As a matter of fact, after watching that video 3 times, I only see one other customer in the video and she wasn't even looking at them.

The only person that was looking right at them was some male employee behind the counter and you see he walk off right as they begin to hug (presumably to run to the manager).

So there was no inappropriate activity as described or shown....and at 2AM, the term "family restaurant" is at best laughable because how many families would be out at 2AM on a Wednesday? Common sense should have kicked in here for the owner/manager since there no indication of a complaint by any other customers in the place.

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Have people not learned yet that acting ignorant and bigoted is only going to bring an onslaught of negative attention and possible lawsuits to them?..LOl

straight bigots are so lame.....

and let it be known...with all these cases..remember that when you do it..we can do it. ANY straight couple caught hugging, holding hands or kissing will be THROWN out of my business!!

you can't have it both ways...Losers...

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AHHHH!!! Lesbians hugging!
Seriously, first it was kissing that they got all upset about, now they are upset about hugging... what the **** is wrong with these hate-mongers?
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Puleeze!!! I can't believe this stuff is happening. Somebody needs to get a life.

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I guess that kissing is okay in this restaurant, but laughing and putting one's head on the others neck/chest area is not......it would be laughable if not for the fact that it occurred.

Can you say......"LAWSUIT"?

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SUE THEM ALL !

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I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.

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Would the night manager have behaved the same way had the two women been cousins, or mother and daughter, or best friends from college?

I wasn't able to view the video, so I don't know what that manager saw to make him think that the women were lesbians in the first place. Hugs, after all, are an acceptable form of affection to display in public, and often occur between two people who are not romantically or intimately related.

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Western1 wrote:
I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.
Once again, at two am, a family restaurant pretty much loses the designation of "family restaurant."

"Targeted?" Get over yourself.
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Western1 wrote:
I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.
The Sate of Maryland prohibits discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations because of sexual identity.

The person who crossed the line was the one who told them to leave.

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Western1 wrote:
I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.
WTF video did you view?

My wife and I viewed the one in the article and at best.......they were laughing and one laid her head on the others neck/chest area briefly.

Get some glasses.....if anyone was being targeted it would have been these 2 Black Lesbians.

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Oh please, there was absolutely nothing inappropriate or "x-rated" in that footage. I see that you'll stoop to lies to push your self-loathing agenda onto others.
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I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.
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Western1 wrote:
I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.
On what planet do you spend most of your time?

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Western1 wrote:
I watched the video. It looked like they were trying to incite something. It was completely innaprorpiate behavior. They were all over each other in the middle of this family restaurant. Gross. Get a room. Stop crying and creating a fuss. If you're going to act that way, you will/should be asked to leave. This seems like a good restaurant, too bad they were targeted.
So says the gay man who so desperately doesn't want to be gay anymore.

btw, this isn't the same Western1 I first encountered. There's been a theory this log-in was bullshite and not I'm more then convinced.

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RnL_4EVR_MARRIED wrote:
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..My wife and I viewed the one in the article and at best.......they were laughing and one laid her head on the others neck/chest area briefly.
The other one had both her arms over the other ones shoulders. Look, their egos were hurt 'cause they were asked to leave. They'll think twice about PDAs I assure you.

A little discretion goes a loooong way.

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Them low life lezbos should be deported to Iraq. This is the US and we do not tolerate nor condone perversely deviant queer behavior in our family dining establishments!!!
You're damned straight! No affection is allowed! How dare people actually smile or laugh or hug in this world! They should be shooting one another in a war for oil! Damned hippie freaks aren't out there blowing up villages for Chevron, they're in there eating and laughing! How dare they?

...sigh...in other words, attitudes like the above are reason enough why so many people these days, myself included, are ashamed to admit that we're Americans.

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Them low life lezbos should be deported to Iraq. This is the US and we do not tolerate nor condone perversely deviant queer behavior in our family dining establishments!!!
AMEN!!! We only tolerate it in our politicians and clergy!!!

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How can someone be so stupid as to run a business and not be aware of anti-discrimination laws or not teach their employees about what is illegal. They will get sued, and the result is an increase in insurance costs for hard-working, honest small business people.

I think insurance companies should not cover discrimination complaints. If someone is found guilty, let them pay out of pocket or go bankrupt.

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Send em to Iraq wrote:
Them low life lezbos should be deported to Iraq. This is the US and we do not tolerate nor condone perversely deviant queer behavior in our family dining establishments!!!
What box of crackers did you come out of?

The US needs to amputate Florida.

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Send em to Iraq wrote:
Them low life lezbos should be deported to Iraq. This is the US and we do not tolerate nor condone perversely deviant queer behavior in our family dining establishments!!!
Actually Cletus, it's your worst nightmare: The more urbane states actively protect such behavior - or at least protect against discrimination against such behavior.

Sorry, the bigoted Murica you desire is fading into history. I suggest you yourself move to a homophobic theocracy where you will find kindred spirits. Say, Iran.

Praiz jeebus!
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