Two gay men kicked out of restaurant for kissing
Sort of curious as to why a taco restaurant needs security guards.
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| The five men, all gay, were placing their order at the Chico's Tacos restaurant on Montwood when the men kissed. All five sat down, but the two guards at the restaurant told them to leave. De Leon quoted one of the guards as saying he didn't allow "that faggot stuff" in the restaurant. De Leon said they refused to leave and called police for help. He said an officer arrived about an hour later in response to calls from his group and the guards. As they waited for police, the guards directed other anti-gay slurs at them, he said. Already angry at the guards, de Leon and his group became angrier at the two police officers who arrived. "I went up to the police officer to tell him what was going on, and he didn't want to hear my side," de Leon said. "He wanted to hear the security guard's side first." Police declined to identify the officers who responded, but department spokesman Javier Sambrano described one officer as relatively inexperienced. De Leon said the officer told the group it was illegal for two men or two women to kiss in public. The five men, he said, were told they could be cited for homosexual conduct -- a law the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas. |
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