I mean, not homosexual gay, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay (rather controversial quote from a movie called The Dilemma). And while we're on the topic of gay, the Dunedin City Council's i-Site Visitor Centre needs to stop labelling the Inch Bar (a cafe in the North East Valley) as a gay bar. Patrons and staff have been abused since the bar at the Gardens started being promoted as a gay bar by i-Site staff two years ago. The owners spoke to them then and were given assurances it would stop, but last week, customers were abused and called "homo faggots" by a passing motorist.
This misunderstanding might be a result of a previous owner starting the cafe in 1992 under the name Homo Espresso. But the Inch Bar is not, nor has it ever been, a gay bar. If gay people are coming down just because of what they heard about the place from the i-Site, then they're just coming for an experience that the establishment cannot provide. The i-Site needs to clean up their act otherwise the Inch Bar could one day have the Westboro Baptist Church picketing their establishment and fuelling even more vitriolic abuse towards the staff and patrons.
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