Homophobia

[Angrboda]

David Cooley, the owner of a gay bar in West Hollywood called the Abbey, wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he and his partner had boarded a flight to Los Angeles from New York when a flight attendant asked if Mr. Cooley’s partner would move from his seat “so a couple could sit together.”

Mr. Cooley said he told the attendant that the two men were a couple and that he wanted to sit with his partner. But the attendant gave Mr. Cooley’s partner a choice: Move for the other couple or get off the plane.

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A 2017 survey from the liberal think tank Center for American Progress showed that more than 36 percent of L.G.B.T. people hid personal relationships for fear of discrimination. Twelve percent avoided public places like restaurants and stores for the same reason, according to the survey.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/busin...seats.html