A gay kiss spurred violent ouster from Boston bar, lawsuit says

[Ian David]

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff | March 1, 2007

A Boston man is accusing Jeremiah Foley, a member of the family that runs the well-known J.J. Foley's pubs in Boston, of assaulting him and physically throwing him out of the chain's bar in the Leather District because he was kissing another man.

Martin T. Keenan says in a civil lawsuit filed this week in Suffolk Superior Court that Foley grabbed and forcibly removed him from the bar in September 2005 and in the process broke one of Keenan's fingers and caused permanent disfigurement.

The action was "extreme and outrageous in a civilized society," the lawsuit says.

The five-page lawsuit says that Keenan suffered emotional distress and that the broken finger required surgery. The lawsuit did not specify the damages sought by Keenan.

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He said his family's establishments, which draw a large cross section of people, are open to all, and he doesn't ask or care about his patrons' sexual orientation.

"It's none of my business," Foley said.

He said he occasionally has to remove patrons for "inappropriate behavior," but he did not recall the two men kissing. Asked whether he would allow two men to kiss in one of his establishments, Foley said: "Hell no. What would you think?"

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William Francis Galvin
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division
One Ashburton Place, 17th floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02108-1512
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Entity Name Identification Number Old Identification Number Principal Office
Address, City, State, Zip, Country
J.J. FOLEY'S CAFE, INC. 041333807 117 E BERKELEY ST, BOSTON, MA 02118 USA
J.J. FOLEY'S FIRESIDE TAVERN, INC. 043054739 000301376 30 HYDE PARK AVE., JAMAICA PLAIN, MA 02130 USA
J.J. FOLEY'S GRILL, INC. 042312162 21 KINGSTON ST, BOSTON, MA 02111 USA

J.J. FOLEY'S CAFE, INC. Summary Screen

PRESIDENT JAMES M. FOLEY 3 SENTINEL RD.,
HINGHAM, MA USA
3 SENTINEL RD.,
HINGHAM, MA USA

TREASURER MICHAEL FOLEY 244 SO. CENTRAL AVE.,
QUINCY, MA 02170 USA
244 SO. CENTRAL AVE.,
QUINCY, MA 02170 USA

SECRETARY JEREMIAH F. FOLEY 244 SO. CENTRAL AVE.,
QUINCY, MA 02170 USA
244 SO. CENTRAL AVE.,
QUINCY, MA 02170 USA


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FOLEY, JEREMIAH F
QUINCY,MA 02170
JJ FOLEY'S REST
9/29/1999
$500
Capuano, Michael E

FOLEY, JEREMIAH F
QUINCY,MA 02170
JJ FOLEY'S REST
9/26/2000
$500
Capuano, Michael E

FOLEY, MICHAEL J
QUINCY,MA 02170
JJ FOLEY'S REST
9/29/1999
$500
Capuano, Michael E

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=ahsgt&txtState=MA&txtEmploy=JJ%20FOLEY&txtAll=Y&Order=N

[NMMNG]

1. Gee, I wonder if a kissing man & woman would get the same reaction

Asked whether he would allow two men to kiss in one of his establishments, Foley said: "Hell no. What would you think?"


Bigot. :eyes:

[Ian David]

3. If it had been two women, he would have sold tickets. n/t

[NMMNG]

4. No doubt

:eyes:

[Kurovski]

2. Thank god for the court system.

Sue the rummy dipshit.

[ThomCat]

5. Exactly,

I hope Mr Keenan owns that place after this lawsuit is done.
x(

[Kurovski]

6. A gay disco! Cool.

:-)

[Ian David]

7. Oops

3.01.2007
Oops
The Globe is spending thousands on TV commercials preaching how it's the city's neighborhood newspaper, so it's ironic then when neither the writer or anyone in the copy chain spots an obvious geography blunder like this one.

The Boston Globe reports today:

A Boston man is accusing Jeremiah Foley, a member of the family that runs the well-known J.J. Foley's pubs in Boston, of assaulting him and physically throwing him out of the chain's bar in the Leather District because he was kissing another man.

Now, I chuckled when I read this for a few reasons. Any bar owner in the Leather District who is throwing out gay people for kissing won't be in business for very long. But the biggest guffaw was at the expense of the Globe.

The J.J. Foley's pubs have been institutions in Boston for years. The Leather District location is typically frequented by a variety of customers, including famous musicians performing in the city.

But JJ Foley's is not in the Leather District. This JJ Foley's is located at 21 Kingston Street, just off Summer Street. Usually this area is referred to as Downtown Crossing or the Financial District. The Leather District is a few blocks south of JJ Foley's on the other side of Essex Street. Maybe they mixed up "Leather District" and "Ladder District", the neologism intended to attract naive condo buyers to deserted, trash-strewn, urine stained Downtown Crossing.

Although he says he doesn't remember the incident in question, Foley made it clear that he would expel gay people from his bar for kissing. What a moron. JJ Foley will have to get along without my future business.
¶ 1:03 PM

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