A gay-owned Virgia rtrant is a dispute wh s neighbors - Washgton Post

Contents:

• INDIANA PIZZA SHOP THAT WON'T TER GAY WEDDGS TO CLOSE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

INDIANA PIZZA SHOP THAT WON'T TER GAY WEDDGS TO CLOSE

A fay-owned Indiana pizza shop that was forced to close s doors after the owners said they would not ter a gay weddg bee of their relig beliefs, is now rakg thoands of dollars om owners of Memori Pizza Walkteron, Ind., beme one of the first pani to say they uld e the newly passed "relig eedom" law to refe service to same-sex upl. Crystal O'Connor, the -owner of Memori Pizza, told WBND-TV she would serve a gay or non-Christian uple at the rtrant, but would not ter a same-sex upl ments rulted a flood of threats agast the bs on Yelp and Twter. "If a gay uple was to e , like say, they wanted to provi them pizzas for a weddg, we would have to say 'no, '" O'Connor told the ments have sparked bate on Twter wh some fendg the owners' right to exercise their relig others potg out the discrimatory nature of the @MaryBowerman on Twter.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. It took the creators of the documentary Boys For Sale more than a year to fully w the nfince of the male prostut, owners of gay and lbian bars and operators of the notor urisen parlours that dot Tokyo’s 2-chome gay they had been accepted – producer Ian Thomas Ash admted the entire budget for the first year of the project was spent on alhol to smooth troductns – the full seedy and ntradictory nature of Japan’s mercial male sex scene was laid Thomas Ash, producer of the documentary ‘Boys For Sale’.

”The pal’s gay quarter has about 800 bs that meet the mand of a clientele still largely unrground Japane society. But if the ctomer wish to take the new relatnship further, he n take him to a private room or a nearby “love hotel” for sex exchange for of the prostut Japan’s gay district are not themselv homosexual, and nsir what they do as ‘jt a job’.

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