Homophobic Man Tries to Enter A Gay Bar
Tags: Equality, LGBTQ, Social Justice, Transgender

If Buhr hadn’t been saying homophobic things in the line, he wouldn’t have been turned away. If he wasn’t homophobic, he wouldn’t have hopped on a live stream and began to shout nothing but homophobic things. What Buhr did proved that the security guard was right to keep him out of the club. Fardad, the security guard for 441 Main, was doing what he was supposed to do. He was keeping the people in the bar safe.

LGBTQ spaces are supposed to be a safe space for LGBTQ people to feel free and have fun without having to wonder if they’re going to be antagonized for being who they are. If Fardad had let Buhr in, he most likely would’ve ruined someone’s night.

How did the security guard know Buhr wasn’t planning to shoot the place up? How did he know Buhr didn’t plan on hurting someone? If he’s confident enough to spew homophobic language in the line while he’s waiting to go in, imagine what else he feels like he can do.

There’s plenty of clubs. Why did Buhr want to go into this one? Why did Buhr want to go into a gay bar when he hates gays? He thinks gay people should be illegal. Gay people make him mad. Do you know what some people do when a the thought of a group of people make them furious? They hurt those people. They hurt them physically, mentally, and emotionally. They hurt them in any way they can. They might even go as far as killing them.

That security guard might have saved some lives that night. Why do you feel like you can come into an LGBTQ space and be homophobic when LGBTQ spaces were specifically built to be a refuge from bigotry. LGBTQ spaces are created to give us somewhere that’s ours. They are a place where we know we can come and be accepted without having to prove we’re worth it.

On June 12, 2016, a man named Omar Mateen went into Pulse, a nightclub in in Orlando Florida, and stole 49 lives. He killed 49 LGBTQ people and allies in an LGBTQ space. He took two semi–automatic weapons and tore lives apart. While it isn’t 100% certain that his motive was anti–LGBTQ, it is certain that the bullets from his guns took away 49 LGBTQ+ lives.

I don’t care how pissed Buhr was that he wasn’t allowed into an LGBTQ space. LGBTQ people can’t even have books for them in a library without someone taking them and burning them. Not too long ago someone tried to tell me LGBTQ people were over–represented in the media already.

A young trans girl was left sitting on the bleachers by herself during an active shooter drill at school. A little gay boy took his own life after being bullied for being gay. Every hour there are countless LGBTQ people contemplating suicide. Trans Day of Rememberance just passed and there are too many names to even try to remember — too many lives that were taken way too soon.

Everyday, trans people are terrified of going into a public restroom because they might become a target. Trans women get killed for simply walking down the street. A gay couple were stabbed for walking down a sidewalk holding hands. Cake makers turn away gay couples because they think making a wedding cake is an act against their God, even though their God never turned away from anybody.

Some heterosexual people make sure LGBTQ people know they shouldn’t even exist every day. They make sure we know they hate us because of who we are and who we love. They make sure to try and make us feel unwelcome. They try to make us feel like we’re freaks, monsters, and abominations. They outcast us so much that we had to start making our own spaces just for us — just for us to have a place to belong.

Anti–LGBTQ people have no right to be in an LGBTQ space.