Bouncers In Ireland Witness Homophobic Abuse, Refuse To Act On It Stating “Homophobia Isn’t A Crime”
Two men were victims of homophobia in a club in Ireland and bouncers refaced to intervene, stating “homophobia isn’t a crime,” according to ‘Gay Times’.
Eoghan Ryder was at the Button Factory in Dublin and as the night went on he ended up kissing another boy. Then, they were victims of homophobic abuse.
“About an hour into the night, some guy comes over to us both, pulls us apart and tells us completely seriously to ‘stop kissing because we are making him and everyone else uncomfortable’,” Eoghan wrote on Facebook.
“I thought he was joking at first so I actually giggled, waiting for him to break and tell me he was messing… nope, he was deadly serious.
“He said, and I quote: ‘we should do that in the bathrooms, out of sight of others, where we belong.’
“I nearly died from both embarrassment and anger that someone would have the gaul to actually go up to two people enjoying an innocent kiss in a club and say that.”
Ryder then went to alert the bouncers of the incident, they took the homophobe outside but then let him back in. After they complained the bouncers said there is nothing he can do as “homophobia isn’t a crime in Ireland.”
However, the night got worse: “Then, at the end of the night, while we were queuing for the cloakroom, I was recounting the night’s events for friends of friends when a member of the group that the homophobe was with came over and punched a friend of my friend clean in the face for absolutely no reason,” Eoghan wrote.
“I couldn’t believe that this had happened so I ran after this guy and shouted at the bouncers to do something and they all just shrugged at me with uninterest.
“Not only did they do absolutely nothing about homophobia but they allowed someone to be punched in the face for no reason…completely unacceptable and a total disgrace.”
Eoghan recently updated his post, saying: “The manager has since contacted me and apologised profusely for what happened but the explanation I received for why they were allowed to stay did not satisfy my frustrations at all so the story is not over, not until further awareness is brought to the total lack of effective hate crime legislation in this country.”
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