A gay couple were left ‘humiliated’ after they were asked to leave a Dublin restaurant simply for holding hands. To make matters even worse the pair were celebrating their anniversary when an onlooker called them ‘disgusting.’
According to a letter published in November’s issue of Irish magazine GCN, the writer and his partner were allegedly asked to leave a restaurant because they showed each other affection.
The letter reads: “My partner and I were in a Dublin city centre restaurant celebrating our second anniversary and we were being physically tactile with each other. Not kissing the faces off each other or anything, but holding hands and looking into each other’s eyes.
“A waiter came to out table and told us that customers at another table were complaining about us. He suggested that we stop showing each other physical affection.”
The man understandably said that he had “every right” to show his partner affection in a public place, but the waiter claimed that “other customers were uncomfortable” and suggested they both leave.
The letter went on: “As we were leaving the restaurant, feeling humiliated, a woman at one of the tables, probably the one who had complained about us, said the word ‘disgusting’.”
The man’s letter finishes with disbelief that something like this could happen in the country that voted overwhelming for same-sex marriage back in May: “This is not the indication, on any level, of acceptance or even tolerance. The whole experience has really shaken the foundations of what I had come to believe post-referendum about my country.”