Leisha Hailey was kicked off plane for lesbian kiss

[LeftWriteFemme]

Can I say one phrase..........the mile high club. Straight people don't get thrown off planes enough to discourage membership.......my 2 cents

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by LeftWriteFemme

Can I say one phrase..........the mile high club. Straight people don't get thrown off planes enough to discourage membership.......my 2 cents

Though, with speck sized bathrooms on planes these days, I think most mile high stories may be anecdotal.

[Janny]

Come on. You know the airlines are nickeling and diming us for everything. If you don't pay your $50.00 Lesbian Fee...you're off the plane! ;^)

[EnderD_503]

Ok, so I was reading Metro on the way to school this morning and saw an article about this where they give a little more info. I suck at the Metro website so I'll just type up the article, it's short anyways.

Kicked off for Smooching
-> L Word actress says she was removed from plane for kissing partner

The publicist for a lesbian actress and musician who says she was escorted off a flight for "one modest kiss" of her partner says the encounter was not a stunt for her band's upcoming breast cancer awareness tour.

Leisha Hailey, best known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the now defunct Showtime lesbian life drama The L Word, asked her Twitter followers to boycott Southwest Airlines after the encounter Monday.

The airline responded that Hailey's display of affection was excessive and drew customer complaints.

The actress and her partner, Camila Grey, denied in a statement released yesterday that the affection they showed toward each other was inappropriate.

"We want to make it clear we were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves, it was one modest kiss," the written statement said.

Hailey and Grey acknowledge they became upset after the flight attendant reprimanded them. They said the attendant told them that Southwest is a "family airline."

"No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud," the statement said. "You can't whisper hate. We ask this airline to teach their employees to not discriminate against any couple, ever, regardless of their own beliefs."

Hailey and Grey said they plan to file a formal complaint with the airline."

More and more I'm inclined to agree with her... that this was moreso a case of homophobia than excessive public displays of affection (and again, nobody seems to be going into detail except for Hailey herself who says it was one kiss...if that isn't the case, then why isn't anyone saying anything to the contrary beyond "the customers said it was excessive." If it was excessive, then they should be able to say what exactly happened, if it caught their attention so much.

[Quintease]

This was the same airline which kicked off a man for wearing baggy pants?

Clearly lesbians and scruffy men aren't the kind of custom they want in their plane, so why not get a bad name for themselves as judgemental idiots to attract the 'right' kind of customer..

Sometimes when people have an idea of how things are, they don't notice when their ideas are flawed. Gayers are sexualised just by existing, therefore, when we hold hands, kiss or have a snog fest, it is much more obvious to these small-minded 'family' oriented bigots than any heterosexual shenanigans.

I hope enough people see the wrong in this to damage their profits.

[EnderD_503]

Originally Posted by Quintease

This was the same airline which kicked off a man for wearing baggy pants?

Haha, yeah I think so. Heaven forbid you sag your pants on a fucking airplane.

Originally Posted by Quintease

Gayers are sexualised just by existing, therefore, when we hold hands, kiss or have a snog fest, it is much more obvious to these small-minded 'family' oriented bigots than any heterosexual shenanigans.

Gayers?

But yeah, that's pretty much it, I think. If you think about it, who are the public more likely to notice giving each other a "modest kiss," Joe and Jane Hetero, or two gay dudes or two lesbians. They are used to hetero couples showing each other affection in public, because it's something you expect of a "proper family unit," so they don't notice it, or see it as "normal." Hell, kids see it on Disney all the fucking time. But when it comes to queers they still haven't quite gotten Freud's "homosexuals be perverts" crap out of their heads yet (gee, they're slow on the uptake...) and so don't see queers as any other couple sharing a kiss in public. Instead they see...zomg ze deviantz be corrupting ze childrenz!

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Quintease

This was the same airline which kicked off a man for wearing baggy pants?

Clearly lesbians and scruffy men aren't the kind of custom they want in their plane, so why not get a bad name for themselves as judgemental idiots to attract the 'right' kind of customer..

Sometimes when people have an idea of how things are, they don't notice when their ideas are flawed. Gayers are sexualised just by existing, therefore, when we hold hands, kiss or have a snog fest, it is much more obvious to these small-minded 'family' oriented bigots than any heterosexual shenanigans.

I hope enough people see the wrong in this to damage their profits.

That guy was Billie Joe Armstrong, of Green Day.

Maybe they just hate celebrities?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_947397.html

[EnderD_503]

Originally Posted by Gemme

That guy was Billie Joe Armstrong, of Green Day.

Maybe they just hate celebrities?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_947397.html

Nah, it wasn't Bill Joe (though they kicked him off, too). There was a US college basketball player or some such that was kicked off a plane (same airline, I'm pretty sure) for sagging his pants a few months ago, too. I think that's who she was referring to? There was a big hoopla over it, I recall.

[Medusa]

They also had an issue with a director or an actor because he was supposedly too fat for his seat. I'll have to look that one up.

Southwest is also becoming known as "The Seat Nazi Airline" when it comes to requiring fat people to buy an extra seat (sometimes even when the plane isn't completely full or even without checking to see if they fit first)