Gay Chicago Couple Ejected from CTA Bus Over Kiss

[w8liftinglady]

(good grief... this is happening EVERYWHERE!)

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/11/gay-chicago-couple-ejected-from-cta-bus-over-kiss.html

Christopher Buchanan and his boyfriend Derrell Hughes say they were kicked off a Chicago Transit Authority bus on October 22 for kissing, the Windy City Times reports:

"I was holding his hand and kissing and whatnot," Buchanan told Windy City Times.

As the bus approached downtown, he said, a middle-aged White woman approached the bus driver to complain about the two. The driver allegedly got up and told Buchanan and Hughes that someone had complained about them and that they needed to get off his bus.

"He was really in my face," said Buchanan. "He said 'you bitches need to get off the bus…I can't stand fags.'"

When the couple refused to leave, Buchanan said, the driver called police. Buchanan said that while police said they had not done anything illegal, they got off the bus after a two-hour ordeal during which a CTA supervisor was called. Buchanan said he felt the two were targeted because they were two black men kissing in public. He noted that a straight couple was also kissing on the bus at the time of the incident.



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[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Well, it really depends on if they were kicked off for the kissing

or the whatnot.

[truedelphi]

2. Lawsuit! Bus drivers and their lack of training never fail to amaze.

About ten years ago, M. and I get on this bus. A friend of ours who is wheel chair confined is being screamed at by the driver. She is supposedly helping attach his wheelchair (With him in it) to the frame of the bus.

But calling our friend every swear word in the book, with her also screaming that it is his fault she is behind schedule. He motions to us to leave it be - not to say anything or interfere.

He got over 10K for that incident.

[closeupready]

3. That's a violation of Chicago's Human Rights Ordinance.

nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. CTA used to have a gay superintendent (an acquaintance of mine).

I doubt he would have put up with this.