They have gay bars in Fort Worth, Texas?

You have no doubt heard about those cops who inspected that Fort Worth gay bar over the weekend (after giving the bar owner notice that they were coming to do a routine check—so why is everyone, including the FWPD, calling it a raid?) and arrested seven people for public intoxication. Yes, you read that right, people were arrested for being drunk, in a bar. Oh, Texas!

Also, the FWPD is claiming that several patrons made "sexually explicit movements" towards the officers, which is either totally hot or totally bullshit. Look, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that these cops were probably in there with the intention of harassing gays, but it's equally plausible that some queen (there's always one) had too many Appletinis and made a clumsy attempt to flirt with one of the men in uniform. Hell, maybe the cops were mistaken for stippers? Of course, had these been women doing the flirting, this whole story would not exist.

Fort Worth actually has an openly gay councilman, so we hope he leads the charge in holding those who acted improperly accountable. Because if you can't get drunk in a bar in Texas without being arrested, what else is there to do? Hang out with Mason Wyler?

Comments

[Grant]

My hometown... Now you know why I've relocated to sunny, Southern California over 7 years ago!

>Grant

[BoyfromOz]

This instantly reminded me of the Tasty nightclub raid in Melbourne, Australia. Over seven hours the Police strip search patrons in front of everyone and humiliated transgender partrons. In a class action case they took the Victorian Police to court and they won damages of like $10 mil