Quote from: Cindy on June 07, 2015, 02:43:43 AM
I hope the Police clean that place out.
People do be careful. There is a bit of a backlash starting following Caitlyn Jenner's coming out. Make sure you keep safe and avoid bigots.
I work at that venue, there's no need for cleaning. I've been there around four years and I was performing there a couple of years before that. When I started I was not particularly passable and I've had nothing but respect from the staff members and they had my back when patrons in the early days were ->-bleeped-<- to me. I'm now one of the more senior staff members there but under a new (Gay) publican over the last 18 months it has only become more queer friendly.
The truth about this incident will come out eventually, I doubt it will go anywhere near as viral as the lies. If you are local to this venue and would like to see the footage message me to arrange a meeting - it's not going to be released publicly but I have a copy to show people who are interested. I'm still having to be very careful what I say in writing and in person so I'm not going to talk much on here, just going to say that it didn't happen the way it's being reported and Stephanie has been telling anyone who will listen an extremely distorted (and inconsistent!) version of the events that actually did happen.
You can already see from the Townie's public statement that we couldn't find anyone on staff who had spoken to Stephanie prior to the incident - if that had changed and it turned out that we did ignore warnings, if a security guard did ignore/watch/run away from a beating etc. there would be serious and public repercussions from the liquor licensing authorities and obviously the venue would sack the people involved - it would be suicide for the business not to sack anyone that did that.
OLGR (Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing) cleared us when they visited and watched the footage a few days after and no one has lost their security license or been sacked - if you choose to believe the gay publican is protecting homophobic and transphobic staff (who are also largely queer btw) against his best business interests then there's no hope for you.
Before you ask, no I am not allowed to post the footage anywhere or share it, we don't want to be going after Stephanie but it has become necessary for us to at least offer people some truth after an intense month of personal attacks and slander from the "victim" and her crew. She has outed me in the process and the boycott campaign has affected the jobs and personal lives of a venue with approximately 50% queer staff - bar shifts have been cut and my shifts are also threatened if people don't wake up and use their brains eventually. We're very much looking forward to the trial of the two men involved (yes two - not five, not 11 or however many it's up to now). There's a lot of people jumping in with grudges they've held for years against people that haven't worked there for a long time, there's also a lot of people saying they've been kicked out or denied entry unfairly and generally complaining that RSA rules have been enforced in the same breath as saying the bouncers are hopeless and can't do their jobs. Honestly the irony and stupidity is breathtaking.
I don't come around these parts very often anymore and I've been staying off the internet lately so I might not see comments, please message if you are local and want to see the CCTV footage.
