Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Gay men claim discrimination in El Paso

From KVIA.com

EL PASO -- A group of gay men say they were discriminated against by security guards and El Paso police officers because of their sexual orientation.

It was a late Sunday night when Carlos Diaz de Leon and a group of his friends decided to stop by Chico's Tacos for a late-night dinner.

They said they were minding their own business when security guards inside asked them to leave.

"Two of my friends wereactually were kissing," Carlos said. Two of Carlos' male friends, that is.

"We went, sat down to eat our food and security guards came and said that if they kept doing that, they were going to throw us all out of the restaurant."

Carlos said he then asked them why? Their response, according to Carlos: "They said 'we didn't allow that gay stuff to go on here.' "

Read the whole story here at http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=10659225

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