Comments on: Brisbane to cherish new gay bar /news/national-news/queensland-news/brisbane-to-cherish-new-gay-bar/112612 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Jules /news/national-news/queensland-news/brisbane-to-cherish-new-gay-bar/112612#comment-119790 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:05:44 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=112612#comment-119790 Rocky (my workmate) went to this new “gay” event – Cherish Brisbane at Zuri Bar on Saturday night…. Rocky is aboriginal and Lesbian…. and does so much in the LGBT community in Brisbane. Anyways…. she told me this story this morning…

She tried to enter Zuri Bar for Cherish Brisbane, (dressed to the hilt, chinos and nice button up shirt – as she is aware its a well-to-do venue, therefore she dressed accordingly) the promoter stopped her at the stairs and said to her (wait for it) – “I’m sorry but you are not the clientele we want at this event” (yes he really said that) and refused her entry… until he was accused of discrimination (by two white women) and then decided to allow her to go in saying it would be “just this once”. I thought it might have been because this was a men’s only event (even though it wasn’t advertised as such) however Rocky told me when she finally made it inside there were 7 other women inside… So it was obviously a racist thing… nice one Zuri Bar & Dining – They might want to reconsider allowing pretentious promoters to run events at the venue. It’s 2013 not 1960.

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By: Paul /news/national-news/queensland-news/brisbane-to-cherish-new-gay-bar/112612#comment-119759 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:56:29 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=112612#comment-119759 I wish we had somewhere like this in Sydney!

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