I’m sure by now, you’ve heard that 2 chicks kissed in Cafe 188whatever and were kicked out by the infamous owner, Sonia Adlys. No Joke.
If you haven’t… you can read the article that ran in the Record today.
First of all – that chick Adlys is whacked. The Article above asks if people are trying to defame her character or whatever, and to that… I say that I have had several personal run-ins with her in her restie… once when i shamefully asked if they had a veggie burger option and was told i should “just get the veggie sandwich, do i SEE a veggie burger on the menu????” I was just asking, sheesh… In most cases, i would be pretty skeptical of how this recent debacle went down – but I personally know one of the kissers involved, and trust her recount of the story as she is a totally great, and honest, young woman. What does kind of sketch me out, is the fact that the facebook group wasn’t started by the two women involved… and i am hoping to ask Jenny about that next week when we chat.
Secondly – i am not even going to go into how ridiculous it is that 2 women would be kicked out of a cafe in Ontario. Saying that, i have a feeling that Adlys would be jonesing to kick out a couple that was of two different ethnic backgrounds, for kissing too… so…. i think you know where i’m going with that…. But i’m also going to say that this Region has some seriously hateful undertones… I just heard from a friend that a few of her students who are from Somalia and male, were recently not picked up by the bus… for no other reason than how they looked. Yep, seriously.
Thirdly – If you want more info on this… or you want to join the facebook group “taking action against homophobia in waterloo region” you can go HERE.
The facebook group reports there will be a kiss-in on Saturday April 10th at 2pm at the Cafe.
There was talk about a boycott – but i don’t think there’s a need to have an organized one personally. You and I are consumers… choose to vote with every dollar you spend AL THE TIME. Interestingly though – a similar situation happened in Ottawa in 2007… and the restaurant shut down shortly after giving an apology to the gay couple that was discriminated against.
H.
PS. Thanks to Mike for giving me the heads up on this.
PPS. Please weigh in if you’ve got a comment…