[tabi] Language barrier?
- From: "Lynn Evans" <evans-lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:59:20 -0400
'Gay dog' refused entry to Australian restaurant
AFP/File - File photo of a guide dog. An Australian restaurant that refused a
blind man entry because a waiter thought .
2 hrs 17 mins ago
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian restaurant that refused a blind man entry because
a waiter thought his seeing-eye dog was "gay" has been ordered to apologise and
pay compensation.
Ian Jolly was told he could not take guide dog Nudge into Adelaide's Thai Spice
last May because a member of staff objected, The Sunday Mail reported.
The restaurant's owners said a misunderstanding had arisen between Jolly's
female companion and a waiter who understood the woman "to be saying she wanted
to bring a gay dog into the restaurant".
"The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been
desexed to become a gay dog," the owners said in a statement to South
Australia's Equal Opportunity Tribunal.
The tribunal on Friday ordered the restaurant to pay Jolly 1,500 dollars (1,400
US) and offer him a written apology for discriminating against him on the
grounds of disability.
The restaurant, which displays a "guide dogs welcome" sign, refused to comment
to the newspaper and was unavailable to respond on Sunday.
Jolly told the Sunday Mail he was happy with the result.
"I just want to be like everybody else and be able to go out for dinner, to be
left alone and just enjoy a meal," he said.
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