{"id":12588,"date":"2011-04-14T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2011-04-14T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:51:44","slug":"how-to-get-thrown-out-of-a-soho-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-get-thrown-out-of-a-soho-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get thrown out of a Soho pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss another man.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-13087715\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man has told of how he was ordered to leave a central London pub after a staff member objected to him kissing a man he was on a date with.<\/p>\n<p>James Bull, 23, said he and Jonathan Williams, 26, were thrown out of the John Snow on Broadwick Street, Soho.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bull said he was &#8220;shaking&#8221; after a woman claiming to be the pub&#8217;s landlady removed them for being &#8220;obscene&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police are investigating the incident, while the John Snow pub is yet to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Smith&#8217;s brewery, the owner of the pub, declined to comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt belittled. I felt physically sick and we were both shaking,&#8221; said Mr Bull, a charity worker from Kentish Town in north London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It made me feel dirty. I&#8217;ve never experienced anything like this before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bull said a man claiming to be the pub&#8217;s landlord first raised objection to their kissing shortly after 0945 BST.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were kissing and a guy who claimed to be the landlord came over and told us to stop. I don&#8217;t want to see that. It offends me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had just kissed. It was nothing obscene. He said if we didn&#8217;t tone it down, we would have to leave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was much younger, I remember being thrown out of a pub for kissing \u2013 come to think of it, there may have been a degree of groping, too \u2013 my girlfriend. I put the whole thing down to envy; the BBC didn\u2019t report on it. Also, since I found the experience exhilarating, it didn\u2019t make me feel dirty,\u00a0 I didn\u2019t shake, nor did I feel belittled, physically sick \u2013 other than from the after effects of a pub pie \u2013 or shocked. In fact, it was a highlight of my university week, and one with which I regaled my friends with considerable relish.<\/p>\n<p>Why has the contemporary pub ejection phenomenon become an occasion for such excruciating angst?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s because the kissers were homosexuals and homosexuals are compulsive victims. The actions of a publican who simply wants to sell beer and ejects those who might put his customers off their beer, become headline news, the publican becomes a bigot, the homosexuals become filled with righteous indignation and Tatchell will probably blow a gasket.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss another man. From here: A man has told of how he was ordered to leave a central London pub after a staff member objected to him kissing a man he was on a date with. James Bull, 23, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-get-thrown-out-of-a-soho-pub\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}