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Why in the world do we let heteros into queer clubs? Who gives a f- if they like us because we “really know how to party?” We have to in order to blow off the steam they make us feel all the time! They make out wherever they please, and take up too much room on the dance floor doing ostentatious couples dances. While dated, much of the content from the 1990 Queer Nation Manifesto still resonates: If a few people are unlucky enough to ask to leave a bar for the night in order to keep the world mindful that a lot of public spaces are unfriendly and unwelcome for gay people, then I am all for it. Gay folks expressing affection are asked to leave places all the time, let alone threatened with violence of openly derided. It’s not all that harmful to anyone to be asked to leave a gay bar. Straight folk are welcome there, but I think it’s fine to say they can’t act ostentatiously sexual with their straight partners. There is still plenty of heterosexism and homophobia around, and gays have fewer public spaces in which they can gather socially in a way different than the outside world. I’m all for this as basically a rhetorical strategy. “So it is therefore not allowed for heterosexuals to kiss and so on.” “It is important to the gay community that Never Mind is kept as a gay place,” he wrote. Owner Christian Carlsen explained that the bar was one of the few gay spaces remaining in Copenhagen. The next day, Joller contacted the bar about the incident and Never Mind’s no-kissing policy for straight couples. Hansen says when the doorman initially confronted her about the kiss, “I frankly thought that it was a joke.” The discussion evolved into a quarrel in which I told him at one point that he was crazy and the most arrogant fool I had ever met. I told him in a very serious tone that what they had going on was sick, and that LGBT people across Denmark struggled for acceptance and equal rights for all, while Never Mind fought against it. I asked him if it was not the same as saying that black people are not allowed to kiss in Never Mind, but he disagreed and told me that the owner of Never Mind may decide who can kiss and who can’t kiss in the bar… replied that it was unacceptable to conduct in that kind of behaviour at a gay place and that Never Mind receives a lot of emails from its gay guests concerning the high number of straight guests that visit the bar. I told the bouncer that it had to be discrimination against heterosexuals to say that they were not allowed to kiss. One of the men accompanying Hansen was Jobbe Joller, founder of the group Homosocialt Fællesskab (Gay Social Community), who tells the Danish website Homotropolis about his confrontation with the doorman: All was well until Mathilde Karlsen Hansen kissed her boyfriend-that’s when a bouncer quickly told her such activity wasn’t allowed. On April 20, a group of gay and straight friends stopped into Never Mind in Pisserenden for some drinks. We’ve (semi-jokingly) railed about how straight people are taking over gay bars, but in Copenhagen, Denmark, one queer watering hole drew a line in the sand and asked a heterosexual couple to leave after they were caught kissing.