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Pole Dancers Butt Hurt with Buttigieg For Canceling Event at Gay Club Over Stripper Pole |
2020-01-24 |
The former South Bend, Ind., mayor's campaign canceled a fundraiser at Dark Lady, a gay Rhode Island nightclub, following a dispute over the presence of a stripper pole, according to the venue. Dark Lady's manager told WPRI that campaign staffers asked the club to remove the pole before the event. When the club refused, staffers canceled the fundraiser. "We guess this is what the gay candidate does to the gay community! #downonthepoles #dancersforanyoneelse," the owners complained on Facebook. "We're open, we're here, we're queer, get over it!" The Buttigieg campaign's cancellation angered pole dancers including Steven Retchless, an America's Got Talent semi-finalist and the 2010 American Pole Fitness Champion. "The pole stigma is associated with sex work, but sex workers whether they're on a pole or not are humans, too, and shouldn't be discriminated against for providing a service as old as time," Retchless told the Washington Blade. "Get over it and support the whole gay community." Philip Deal, founder of Mr. Pole Dance America, told the LGBT publication that Buttigieg's decision was "shameful." |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#10 Maybe you should consult Alexander Graham Bellski; the world's first telephone Pole..... |
Posted by: USN, Ret. 2020-01-24 14:23 |
#9 and no Festivus jokes! |
Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-24 10:45 |
#8 #4 But what do the poles say ? ^ This. This exactly. Joke all you like, but a pole is mentally and physically incapable of consent. Pole dancing is rape! Especially pole polka! #IBelieveThePoles |
Posted by: Snang Thrinesh2108 2020-01-24 10:37 |
#7 Probably didn't want to be visually reminded of a painful incident in his life. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-01-24 09:16 |
#6 He claims Greek ancestry, but he seems pole-ish to me... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 07:45 |
#5 "The pole stigma is associated with sex work, but sex workers whether they're on a pole or not are humans, too" As in, sitting on a pole? Is Buttfug a pole-ee or a pole-er? Кто кого, гомик? |
Posted by: Lex 2020-01-24 07:41 |
#4 But what do the poles say ? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-24 07:32 |
#3 The Buttigieg campaign's cancellation angered pole dancers including Steven Retchless, an America's Got Talent semi-finalist and the 2010 American Pole Fitness Champion. Come on, Steve - it isn't every day you get shafted by a candidate for president; just sit back and enjoy it! |
Posted by: Raj 2020-01-24 07:30 |
#2 Faigaleh... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 07:05 |
#1 Nothing quite like a ghey guy openly admitting the ghey lifestyle is a perversion. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 07:03 |