Viennese protest after cafe ejects kissing lesbian couple
- 9 years ago
A kiss is just not a kiss it seems for some in Austria.
More than a thousand people joined a gay rights protest in Vienna on Friday after a lesbian couple were thrown out of a cafe for kissing in public.
The decision by the shop’s owner sparked a storm on social media and a few locked lips in solidarity.
One of the women expelled, Anastasia Lopez told the rally: “I wanted to speak to the owner and she told us that what we were doing was disgusting and that she was disgusted by us, that what we were doing belonged in a brothel and not a traditional Viennese Cafe.”
The couple at the centre of the storm claim they had merely exchanged a kiss as a greeting.
Christl Sedlar, the owner of the cafe later expressed regret over the incident and apologised saying she had overreacted.
But elsewhere in the city dozens of people took the streets in support of her earlier stance.
“We are here to send a message of solidarity with the owner of the cafe Prueckel because we think that the o
More than a thousand people joined a gay rights protest in Vienna on Friday after a lesbian couple were thrown out of a cafe for kissing in public.
The decision by the shop’s owner sparked a storm on social media and a few locked lips in solidarity.
One of the women expelled, Anastasia Lopez told the rally: “I wanted to speak to the owner and she told us that what we were doing was disgusting and that she was disgusted by us, that what we were doing belonged in a brothel and not a traditional Viennese Cafe.”
The couple at the centre of the storm claim they had merely exchanged a kiss as a greeting.
Christl Sedlar, the owner of the cafe later expressed regret over the incident and apologised saying she had overreacted.
But elsewhere in the city dozens of people took the streets in support of her earlier stance.
“We are here to send a message of solidarity with the owner of the cafe Prueckel because we think that the o