Armistead Maupin denied use of Australian restroom because he’s gay!

During a trip to Australia, well-known San Francisco author Armistead Maupin said he and his husband were denied use of a restroom because they are gay.
Maupin, best known for his Tales of the City novel series, said the homophobic snub occurred at the Bojangles Saloon & Dining Room in Alice Springs, a town of about 27,000 residents in the Northern Territory of Australia.

“When Chris [Maupin’s husband Chris Turner] asked where the toilet was, the bartender told us to go across the street because their toilet was reserved for ‘real men,’” Maupin wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

The couple went to the saloon for lunch, and Turner asked to use the restroom after they were seated, according to an ABC Alice Springs news report.

.According to the report, the bartender twice repeated that the saloon’s restroom was for “real men,” and that the couple should use a public facility across the street.

“Neither one of us could quite believe he’d said it, and he actually repeated it, [he said] ‘see the sign on the door, it says gents, it’s for real men,’” Maupin told the news station.

More Details at SF Examiner.