Watch: Couple’s awesome response when told to stop kissing in bar
By Will Stroude
A gay couple were forced to leave a bar in North Carolina last week after patrons complained about their gestures of affection – and they responded by kissing even more.
Dustin Baker and Andrew Dera told WRAL that they had gone to watch a band at Louie’s Sports Pub in Fayeteville last Thursday (September 17), when the own confronted them.
“He put his arm around me, he gave me a kiss, and she said this wasn’t right, this wasn’t OK,” said Deras. “She threatened both of us. He gave me a kiss. It was very minor. It was just a peck. It was two seconds.”
“I just gave Andrew a kiss, and that’s when she started getting really crazy,” added Baker, who works locally as a hairdresser. “She’s saying, ‘This is enough. This is enough,’ like basically telling us to get out.”
The bar’s owner, Pam Griffin, told the channel she took action because other patrons in the bar had complained about the couple, saying: “I walked up to them calmly. I asked them ‘guys, you know, can you kind of just separate, kind of move apart? I don’t care if you stay and drink. We don’t need to be doing that, and just calm down because you’re making people feel uncomfortable’.”
She denied she was motivated by homophobia, arguing that the couple were asked to leave not because they were gay but because they were causing a disturbance, and that she would have reacted in the same way to a heterosexual couple.
Dustin and Andrew said that after kissing more, they proceeded to pay their bill and leave.
You can watch WRAL’s full report on the incident here.
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