Texas bar bans gay men over ‘safety risk’ for dancing to country music instead of hip-hop

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Texas bar bans gay men over ‘safety risk’ for dancing to country music instead of hip-hop
By David Edwards
Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:49 EST

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is backing two Texas men who say that they were recently kicked out of a South Texas night club for dancing to country music instead of hip-hop or rap.

Justin Meyer, 21, explained to the Victoria Advocate that management at Cactus Canyon told them on Saturday night that there was a policy against men dancing together to country music.

However, Meyer said that he later discover that the club had no such policy.

“I don’t like that we were lied to,” he remarked. “The confrontation never would have happened if they hadn’t lied about the policy.”

Meyer’s boyfriend, 30-year-old James Douglas, said that the couple was finishing a dance to the song “Cowboys and Angels” on Saturday night when they were told that they were violating club policy and posed a safety risk.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/26/texas-bar-bans-gay-men-over-safety-risk-for-dancing-to-country-music-instead-of-hip-hop/

[marble falls]

1. The safety risks were over red necks' brains exploding.

[valerief]

2. This is the most absurd thing I've read today. A truly WTF story. nt

[yuiyoshida]

5. Lets hope soon those two men OWN THAT BAR....

AFTER the law suit.

[mimi85]

13. I second that emotion! nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Yeah. Proves truth is stranger than fiction. nt

[jberryhill]

3. It sounds pretty hazardous to straight couples, though

Every time someone puts on country music, some guy's wife runs off with his pickup truck and his dog, leaving him to drink alone all the time and wish she'd come back.

[olddad56]

6. no, that usually only happens if it is raining and it is the day the cowboy's mom got out of prison.

[uppityperson]

9. while the train went by

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. and she got runned over by a pick-up truck

[Aerows]

31. And then the pickup truck got hit by the train

going by.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Hmmm. What's wrong with this manager's statement:

“We’ve never kicked anyone out of the club for dancing,” Dillender noted. “Our obligation to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is to maintain the peace.”

Dillender claimed that one of the men poked the manager in the chest and demanded to see the club policy during a parking lot confrontation. The men were told that the police would be called if they tried to return to the bar. Meyers maintained that the manager was never poked.

[olddad56]

7. The manager might have wanted to get poked.

[graegoyle]

8. Always a bridesmaid...

[SoapBox]

11. ROFL

[mimi85]

14. LMAO

Excellent! Happy New Year....

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Yeah, that too.

By the manager's own admission, there was a discussion of some policy at the time of the incident.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

27. Watch the video from the news report... the bar folk have a tiny truth problem...

Yes, the news report makes it obvious that there WAS a discussion of bar policy and then offers two conflicting versions of the bar "policy."

The news report has a direct quote from the bar management:

"It is acceptable for women to dance... but it's not acceptable for men to dance together in this type of business we run."

And later in the story they report that bar management claims they have no policy.

One of the two scenarios from the bar spokesfolk is incorrect.

[sakabatou]

12. WTF?

[seattledo]

28. Exactly!

I never thought I would ever hear about a gay male that would listen to country music. Ever.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. Don't tell that the clientele of the gay country bar Charlie's in Chicago.

[hrmjustin]

16. Talk about a Wtf moment.

[LiberalElite]

17. WHAT WHAT WHAT

+1,000,000,000

[JI7]

19. they probably assumed Country Music fans to be right wing types

and that they would lose customers.

[rocktivity]

23. But if the club plays hiphop as well as country

and the clientele is presumably co-ed, that means that what they REALLY fear is that country music-loving gay men actually exist...


rocktivity

[kentauros]

25. They probably don't have this cut by Rev. Horton Heat, either:

[christx30]

20. It makes sense to me.

Gay men are 47.2%* more likely to trip and fall during country dancing.

*Source, 1001 totally made up statistics, 1992.

[rocktivity]

21. The policy makes perfect sense to me

You're more likely to start a fight by accidentally bumping into someone while line dancing...

rocktivity

[Globulus]

22. The Texas two-step is a safety hazard on its own.

Technically it isn't even dancing. It's just a drunken roller skate rink without the skates. I never met anyone in Texas who could dance, but apparently these two gentlemen could, which is probably the real reason they got kicked out. And what about the mechanical bull that's in every damn bar in Texas? Isn't that a safety hazard?

I hope they sue the hell out of that bar and make a fine penny (what's left after the lawyers take their share).

[blogslut]

29. Haha

You saw 'Urban Cowboy' one too many times.

[Aerows]

34. No, he's right

I rode a mechanical bull in a country bar in Houston. That was the first and last time I went to a country bar in Texas, but I was by no means going to leave without at least trying the mechanical bull. I managed to stay on, too.

[Mojo Electro]

24. Er....

Doesn't everyone in the club dance to the music that is playing?

[TexasTowelie]

26. They are supposed to dance only to "show tunes".

Since teh gays know 'em all.

I grew up 90 miles away from Victoria and had family members that lived there. The managers were concerned about the safety risk--there concerns are of a possible boycott of the straight clientele and of homophobia in general.

[Jesus Malverde]

32. This song passion...

Never heard of the guy, he's got mighty fine tailored shirts... wink wink..

[TexasTowelie]

33. Yeah, and it looks like he keeps his chest waxed also.

I checked his Facebook page and it looks like he gets sewn into his blue jeans like most C&W performers. Seriously, those things are so tight that you know when he gets a pimple on his butt.

BTW, thanks for posting the video. It is a great reminder as to why I haven't listened to C&W for years.

[boguspotus]

35. Man, I hate this stuff:

How about some good Country Music!