Double Standards Behind Lesbian’s ‘Disgusting’ Allegation
Key West Resort has a men-only bar
Breaking news! Yesterday gay guys were turned away from UK lesbian bars. And the day before too! In fact every day for years gay guys have been prevented from entering lesbian bars.
There! At last this terrible travesty has been reported!
Just like Rebecca Hill and her partner who were prevented from entering the men only ‘Tom’s Cruise Bar’ in the Key West Resort in Torquay recently. And boy, did that get reported! The local press featured it, and now it’s splashed across the gay press!
Hill told the local paper,
“I think it is disgusting that after all the strides the gay movement has made over the years there are places still discriminating.”
Candy Bar, Soho - no entry for men, unless accompanied by a woman
Hmmm. Will she be disgusted enough to complain to the following organisations?:
Candy Bar, London - Entrance policy - no men, unless accompanied by a woman
Glass Bar, London - Entrance policy - women only, full stop.
Pink Sofa Lesbian Dating - lesbians only - no gay men!
Girls Date For Free - Girls don’t pay, men do!
Sheila’s Wheels - women get their car insurance cheaper! (as pointed out by Pink Paper)
Torquay sea view
If Rebecca Hill was trying to get the Key West Resort into trouble, her plans may have backfired, as the story has created massive publicity for the gay resort. Peter Gordon of the Key West Resort told Mothership Blog that the comments on the South Devon Herald Express website were nearly all in favour of the hotel.
Mothership says: Gay men and lesbians are bound by a common cause, and are often the best of friends. However, we need time apart too! Gay men and lesbian-only services provide this, and are to be welcomed.
By staff writer
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What do you think? Comment below…
December 14th, 2010 at 4:08 am
I agree with the comment below. Rebecca Hill is a known trouble maker on the gay scene. She has been evicted for fighting from Rocky’s beforehand. She knew Keywest was men only and only came here to cause trouble. Unfortunately in Torquay most lesbians are nasty, vindictive people. They need to grow up.
July 4th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
the woman in question who made the allegation against key west is a known trouble maker in the torquay lesbian circuit. Keywest has a strict men only policy which is stated clearly. Rebecca Hill knew this but still persisted in a bit of stirring. She should be utterly ashamed of herself. Typical loud mouthed shit stirring lesbian!
August 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The new Discrimination Law which gay men have been fighting for, for decades, is also a danger to gay only establishments unless they can find some way around the law. Men only hotels cannot legally disciminate unless they have something that sets them apart and can allow sepeartion of the sexes. Lesbians who want a woman only space can put their money where their mouthes are and open one and stop bitching at gay men who do the same and restrict it for gay men only… It was no surprise that it was a lesbian who caused trouble at the Key West and no surprise that a lesbian even thought she had the right. No wonder gay men and lesbians do not generally ‘get on’ and why gay men want their own space.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Thanks guys for all your comments.
It seems we’re all in agreement that this smacks of hypocricy and double standards.
Nevertheless, I’d be interested to hear if anyone disagrees with us.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I feel very sad that gay men can’t set aside time a few times a year to just be with each other without people creating issues, if a group of people need time and space and you try to refuse them that then that is discrimination. Lesbians are lesbians not gay men and the only thing we have in common is that we fall under he same tag (LGBT) but it starts and ends there. These gay men only events are not designed to discriminate but in fact are designed to be inclusive to the people of the same sex and same sexual orientation.
If you have a party at your residence and a stranger knocks at the door trying to join the party would you let him or her in? If your not trying to play devils advocate then your answer is probably going to be a “NO” so are you then discriminating against that individuals right to take part in what they want? or are you trying to get on with a party that was set up for a particular group of people in this case more than likely your friends only. The same applies for these lesbians who have felt an issue with being refused at the door, your not refused at those doors any other time of the year it was just for a special event put on with the focus of allowing men to connect with other men without lesbians or heterosexuals.
Should lesbians now be allowed to use gay mens toilets too? If we say “NO” then are we discriminating? Should we come and crash your parties and use your toilets?
There were lots of places that the “refused lesbian/s” could have gone, they obviously felt very angry but is it because they couldn’t get their own way? or because no one set up an event that was lesbian only? maybe thats what they should have spent all that energy on setting their own lesbian only event instead of trying to instigate more backlash in the LGBT community.
Anyone can say when they don’t get their own way “is it because I am gay/lesbian/colored/short/tall?” is discrimination but it takes wisdom to see that its not in this case. If lesbians set up a “Lesbians only Tea & Cake Party” and I tried to get in not realizing that it was a private party for lesbians only then I would just go somewhere else or home not run off off to the papers and turn something that was meant to be liberating and inclusive to a specific group of people into something that was meant to disrupt “your life”.
This whole thing about not getting in in my opinion sounds very stubborn, childish and at best like a spoiled child.
It would be great to know where all these lesbians that complained live that way we could all go to their houses, knock on the door and ask to move in for the week and when refused we can call the papers and say how disgusted we are after being discriminated against lol.
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 pm
There is a place for fish and there is a place for chips! Together if being served in a fish and chip shop, seperate anywhere else! I for one most certainly wouldn’t WANT to enter a lesbian bar! One woman had the chance with me and she blew it big style, so now I prefer my companions to be male and male only when socialising away from friends and family!
Lesbian only bars are fine in my very humble opinion as are male only venues! If you want mixed venues, lets fa ce it, there areplenty of them around!
Stop making mountains out of mole hills! Life is for living so go live ffs!
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Lesbians have always had it easier.
Lesbians were never criminalised.
Lesbians were never institutionalised and treated with electro-shock therapy to cure their ‘gayness’, neither were they locked up, or worse.
Lesbians have, for the most part, hidden in the shadows whilst gay men fought for gay rights (and suffered the abuse for doing so).
If anything, lesbians have allowed a hardline feminism to take hold amongst their ranks and this has simply isolated them into a militancy which repels a lot of gay men and straight people. They certainly don’t do themselves any favours.
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
A gay male friend of mine has never been able to forget being thrown out of the women’s tent at a Pride event years ago, into which he had strayed in all innocence. He reported he thought it went against the spirit of the big day to be told in a hostile way that he wasn’t welcome under this particular stretch of lesbian canvas.
I’ve never really wanted to invade lesbian territory myself, and am much more peturbed by the influx of straight women into gay bars, who are loud and treat it like an unofficial hen party. Men-only nights are much missed in London these days.
Historically speaking, maturer gay men will tell you how let down they felt by their lesbian friends in the early years of the AIDS crisis, who, because they were relatively unaffected by the virus, seemed indifferent to the plight of their gay brothers. Perhaps this viral segregation still persists in present attitudes.