For members of the designated groups. Personally I see their point, although I am not sure what they are ashamed of, but I wonder what would happen if I refused entry to one of the chosen few?
Montreal gay bar under fire for barring women
Updated Wed. May. 30 2007 7:44 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A "truly manly meat market" in Montreal has been slapped with a human rights complaint for barring women from the premises.
Bar Le Stud -- it offers the above description in an online Yellow Pages ad -- has operated in Montreal's gay village for the past 11 years.
Audrey Vachon recently went there with her father Gilles and sat down on the patio with him for a drink. A bar staffer told him that women weren't allowed, not even on the patio.
"On the spot I didn't believe it, I thought it was a bad joke," Audrey told The Canadian Press on Wednesday. "I didn't say a word until I'd left. I was too shocked. I was embarrassed, I was humiliated, I felt guilty that I'd even gone there, like I'd done something wrong."
Vachon said it's the first time she's been asked to leave someplace because she's a woman. She has filed a complaint with Quebec's Human Rights Tribunal.
Jean-Marc Cardinal, a gay man who works next to the bar, was okay with the policy.
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