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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on December 01, 2011, 03:22:51 PM
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Exclusive interview: Gay San Diego couple says United Airlines employee used slur
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x192337
Billy Canu and his husband, Michael Harbron were flying home after spending Thanksgiving away with friends and relatives. Harbron and Canu, the latter of whom is CEO and cofounder of a successful search engine optimization and Web-marketing firm with offices in San Diego and London, say they got a rude awakening about bigotry, and how it is alive and well – even within the ranks of corporate industry leaders such as United Airlines, which was one of the industry’s first to provide equal benefits to LGBT employees.
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LGBTweekly.com: Can you tell us exactly what happened to you and your husband in Denver?
Billy Canu: Saturday, we were heading back to San Diego from Denver, waiting for a United Airlines flight. We’re both Gold Club members and wanted to get into the gold lounge there, but were told we couldn’t.
Was that when someone at United called you “faggot?â€
No. That came later. First we were treated to this really condescending attitude from a woman – a customer service person – who told us that people pay a lot of money to come here. She was just really snide. Behind her were about five uniformed United staff – all snickering.
So they were making fun of you guys?
It sure felt like they were having a good laugh at our expense. So, we went to the customer service counter, where we were told there shouldn’t be a problem.
Why is this "exclusive" or even newsworthy?
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:gay2: I HIGHLY DOUBT this happened. I also read that interview with a lisp :lmao:
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The treatment these men received is disgusting, and the manager should be fired. But,
Posted by Amimnoch on Thu Dec-01-11 11:17 AM
There is something in the writing of the article that isn't matching up.
I fly quite a bit for work, I've been a Continental Airlines Platnium Elite member for the last 4 years, and gold member the 4 years before this. Now that United and Continental merged, I'm more familiar with the United Airlines way of business.
Neither United or Continental have gold clubs. Continental lounges are/were Presidents clubs lounges, and United is/was United red carpet clubs. In Denver they have 3x United Red Carpet Clubs.
Club membership and Star Alliance memberships are 2 different creatures (Continental/United are members of this alliance). The Star Alliance is the frequent flyer program, and has 3 different levels, silver, gold, and platnium.
If they were Star Alliance Gold members, that alone doesn't grant access to the clubs/lounges at the airports, but it does offer the perk of a reduced fee for club membership. This is how it is at all domestic lounges. Gold Star Alliance membership will sometimes get you lounge access at international terminals (Like in Rio De Janeiro, GIG airport, you can have lounge access if you are Star Alliance Gold, even if you don't have President's club/United Red Carpet Lounge access. What's even more confusing for people who don't fly a lot.. even if you have Presidents Club or United Red Carpet Lounge membership, you still can't get into the Rio club unless you are: Star Alliance Gold or higher, or flying on a partner airline in Business/First class.
The rudeness and homophobia should be punished, but reading the article, unless the gentleman just misspoke, he didn't actually have lounge membership to grant him access. Of course, there is a way to let a customer know this, and a way NOT to let the customer know.. it sounds like the rude jackasses in this particular lounge chose the latter.
You're only saying that because they were gay. If a hetero couple had encountered the same rudeness from a gay employee it wouldn't have mattered, would it?
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:gay2: I also read that interview with a lisp :lmao:
As long as you don't wield that sheep icon again (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,67182.msg779625.html#msg779625) - I think you scared Cyrus! :rotf:
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Hasn't Denver been overrun by liberals migrating from California?
Homo's are only 3% of the population but yell so loudly that their numbers seem larger.
I would venture that not all liberals are pro poll polishing.
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As many flaming homo flight attendants as there are, it's fairly hard to believe it was a regular employee of the airline.
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Any pictures of the lovely couple?
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Any pictures of the lovely couple?
(http://lgbtweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Billy-Canu-200x300.jpg)
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(http://lgbtweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Billy-Canu-200x300.jpg)
The one on the left looks like Rachel Madcow with a goatee.
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The one on the left looks like Rachel Madcow with a goatee.
Looks like the catcher to me.
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Any pictures of the lovely couple?
BS for asking for a pic.
Now that I've seen it... :puke:
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BS for asking for a pic.
Now that I've seen it... :puke:
Forgot to use the checklist that is to be used when preflighting your computer for adventures over DUmmieland did you?
Remember it's
1: Eye Bleach
2: Mind bleach
3: And more bleach
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Forgot to use the checklist that is to be used when preflighting your computer for adventures over DUmmieland did you?
Remember it's
1: Eye Bleach
2: Mind bleach
3: And more bleach
So much for their talking points that you wouldn't be able to tell a fag if you saw one. That thing on the left is as queer as Barney Frank's ass.
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They are surely in the top 1%, off with their heads!
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They are surely in the top 1%, off with their heads!
All 4 of em.
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The treatment these men received is disgusting, and the manager should be fired. But,
Posted by Amimnoch on Thu Dec-01-11 11:17 AM
There is something in the writing of the article that isn't matching up.
I fly quite a bit for work, I've been a Continental Airlines Platnium Elite member for the last 4 years, and gold member the 4 years before this. Now that United and Continental merged, I'm more familiar with the United Airlines way of business.
Neither United or Continental have gold clubs. Continental lounges are/were Presidents clubs lounges, and United is/was United red carpet clubs. In Denver they have 3x United Red Carpet Clubs.
Club membership and Star Alliance memberships are 2 different creatures (Continental/United are members of this alliance). The Star Alliance is the frequent flyer program, and has 3 different levels, silver, gold, and platnium.
If they were Star Alliance Gold members, that alone doesn't grant access to the clubs/lounges at the airports, but it does offer the perk of a reduced fee for club membership. This is how it is at all domestic lounges. Gold Star Alliance membership will sometimes get you lounge access at international terminals (Like in Rio De Janeiro, GIG airport, you can have lounge access if you are Star Alliance Gold, even if you don't have President's club/United Red Carpet Lounge access. What's even more confusing for people who don't fly a lot.. even if you have Presidents Club or United Red Carpet Lounge membership, you still can't get into the Rio club unless you are: Star Alliance Gold or higher, or flying on a partner airline in Business/First class.
The rudeness and homophobia should be punished, but reading the article, unless the gentleman just misspoke, he didn't actually have lounge membership to grant him access. Of course, there is a way to let a customer know this, and a way NOT to let the customer know.. it sounds like the rude jackasses in this particular lounge chose the latter.
Or how about "He made the whole damn thing up" for 100 Alex.
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(http://lgbtweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Billy-Canu-200x300.jpg)
That is so Birdcage :bwah:
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I Thought it was spelled 'fagot' not 'faggot'. Not that I give a shit one way or the other but certainly don't want the queens to be mad about me misspelling fagot/faggot.
Could a lurking dirt poker from the DUmp let me know which way they would like that spelled?
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As many flaming homo flight attendants as there are, it's fairly hard to believe it was a regular employee of the airline.
I deal and work with them every day.
Dang near every one of them is a fairly decent individual.
A fairly high percentage of F/A's are homos. Not all.
I rarely see a flamer, and when that happens...game on.
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A fag couple was taking a plane trip to Hawaii. One of them got so excited about the trip that he got frisky. The other one didn't want anyone to see them, so he says:
"Stop it, there are people here!"
"They are busy watching the movie, nobody will notice," other one replied.
"They will notice."
"I'll prove it to you."
The frisky fag stands and asks out loud "Does anyone have a pen I could borrow?"
He gets no response, so the couple start having fun with each other.
After the plane lands, the stewardesses are saying goodbye to the people leaving. The last one to leave plane has vomit all over his shirt.
The stewardess say, "Next time, you should ask for a vomit bag, sir."
The guy replies, "Yeah right, a vomit bag. One guy asked for a pen and they ****ed him in the ass!"
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All 4 of em.
I didn't get it at first... :thatsright:
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The one on the left looks like Rachel Madcow with a goatee.
No way! Madcow would never look that good in facial hair.
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I deal and work with them every day.
Dang near every one of them is a fairly decent individual.
A fairly high percentage of F/A's are homos. Not all.
I rarely see a flamer, and when that happens...game on.
I've known several gay people in the past, nope don't like the lifestyle at all, but one thing, they HATED "faggy" gays.
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I deal and work with them every day.
Dang near every one of them is a fairly decent individual.
A fairly high percentage of F/A's are homos. Not all.
I rarely see a flamer, and when that happens...game on.
I have no problem with any of the FAs being homosexual, they're entitled to work for a living like everyone else, I just mean that an awful lot of the male ones are pretty damned obvious about it. As many of them as there are in the airline workforce, I just find it hard to imagine they would have run into a regular airline employee who would have had a chip on his shoulder about two gay dudes, you'd expect it to be totally ho-hum. There are two highly-probable scenarios, one is that the employee was a local contractor who really did have it out for the gays, and the other more likely one is that these two spun themselves up into a high drama event because the employee told them something they didn't want to hear, like that they would need to check something large and stupid that one of them was carrying.