Lesbian kiss couple get pub ban
A pub landlord today defended his actions after a lesbian couple claimed they were banned from his bar because they'd openly kissed each other.
Kelly Murray and her partner Laura McGuire, 21, are no longer welcome as customers in the Grapes Tavern in Hereford after a kiss too far in the bar of the Church Street pub.
Laura alleges that bar staff told her there would be "none of that in here" after she gave Kelly a kiss on the cheek.
Landlord Mick Price denied that he was homophobic and claimed the two women had overstepped the mark.
"It was a lot more than a peck on the cheek. I suppose you could have called it heated kissing because they were really going for it" he said.
"I've got nothing at all against gay people and we get gay people coming in here for a drink all the time.
"But you can't do what these two girls were doing and, had it been a straight couple, they would have been thrown out and banned too.
"Kissing like that just makes everyone else feel embarrassed and uncomfortable."
Laura,who used to work behind the bar at the Grapes, says she has been told that the landlord has banned her for life.
She added: "I am sure that if a man and a woman had done the same then no fuss would have been made. This is just a case of discrimination against gay people."
