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Kentucky Print Shop Welcomes Guns, But Not Gays: Today In Gay

A specialty print shop in Kentucky is so anti-gay that it's slapped a "no-gays" sticker on its front window.

Herald Embroidery in Oak Grove, Kentucky has an image of a rainbow flag with a "no smoking" style bar through it. The store also bans "foul language" but has stickers approving of guns, beards and "John 3:16."

So if you're gonna wave your gun around the shop, be sure not to use any profanity.

My wife and I went into this shop to get shirts for my parent's anniversary. We went in holding hands and the clerks gave us dirty looks the entire time. We didn't understand why; maybe they thought we were suspicious?

I confronted one of the employees and they directed me to a sticker in the window. It had a pride flag on it and it basically meant gays weren't welcome. My wife and I were heartbroken; we just wanted shirts made! But we wasted a trip for nothing. Guess we'll get our shirts online next time. So sad about this treatment.

After news of the stickers broke, the owners took them down—replacing them with the following clarification: “While we will serve all customers who treat our place of business with respect, we reserve the right to refuse to produce promotional products that promote ideas that are not in keeping with our consciences. This includes, but is not limited to content promoting homosexuality, freemasonry, the use of foul language, and imagery which promotes immodesty."


Philadelphia Gay News reports that Ed Hermance, who has owned the shop for almost 40 years, plans to retire in the fall. Hermance had hoped to sell the business, and had a buyer, but the deal fell through the other week.

Hermance, who says he's lost between $10,000-$15,000 in keeping Giovanni's Room open since the beginning of 2014, says online retailers like Amazon have created an atmosphere that's almost impossible for independent booksellers to survive in. He hopes the shop is ressurected in some form, but admits “whatever it is that they do, it will have to be something different than what we are doing now. If won’t survive if it isn’t different."


After Eagle Scout Garrett Bryant updated his Facebook status to indicate he was in a relationship, a friend responded "Good for you, man! What's his name?" Though Bryant quickly deleted the post, people in Scouting had already seen it.

Bryant was in line to be hired for the second summer in a row at the BSA’s Camp Geronimo in Arizona. But a week later, he was told by a camp leader that he wouldn’t be extended an offer because the post suggested he "engaged in homosexuality.”

“I viewed my sexuality as something I was going to keep private. It was my private life. I wasn’t going to share it with the BSA,” Bryant told NBC News. “They made an issue of my sexuality. I was perfectly content with staying in the closet with the Scouts.”

In response, Bryant and his family have launched a new branch of Scouts For Equality, which embraces LGBT youth and adults. “I was fully willing to keep my sexuality hidden from the BSA to stay involved,” says the college freshman. “They wanted to make this an issue. Now, because of that, I will continue to make it an issue."


An Uber driver in Paris has been fired for refusing to take a pair of passengers because they were gay.

Julien Pasktie says he contacted the transport company after an unnamed driver allegedly refused to pick him and another man up because they were coming from a gay club.  The driver reportedly said "I don’t take gays"and drove off.

Pasktie requested another car, and was surprised to see the same driver respond. When they took a picture of his license plate, the driver reportedly shouted “Come here, I’m going to break your phone." Fearing for their safety, the two men headed back toward the club.Screen Shot 2014-04-30 at 12.35.53 PM

Pasktie tweeted about the interaction, and included the driver's plate number. On Sunday, Uber announced it had suspended the the staffer, stating "this unacceptable behavior is absolutely not representative of the spirit of Uber." He was later fired.

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