For the second time in a week a gay kiss-in has been held in front of the John Snow, a pub in Soho, London. Both the gatherings have been organized on twitter and facebook in response to a tweet by 26 year old Jonathon Williams, he and his friend were asked to leave after the two men had kissed inside the pub on Wednesday April 13th. Friday 15th numerous gay couples showed up in front of the pub to kiss in protest against homophobia, along with other people joining in the protest the gathering was attended by around 300. Thursday afternoon and early evening this number was over a thousand.
Both of the times the John Snow had closed before the gathering was to start and they have turned down all the plenty opportunities they’ve been offered to talk to the media.
The question that rose in my mind reading the article is whether Pubs should be obligated to allow gay people to kiss inside their pub, as of yet I’m leaning towards no. It’s discrimination only if straight people are allowed to kiss, a potential law concerning this issue will be difficult to enforce and maybe this can simply be seen as an issue of choice, if people don’t agree with the pub’s policy there’s plenty of other pubs to go to.
For me personally this would be more than enough reason not to go to the John Snow and I think it’s wonderful to see gay rights are being taken so seriously and are defended in such a peaceful way. Judging from the video I think I would have very much liked to be there, for the atmosphere and for supporting the statement.
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