Pub refuses to serve LGBT group
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The Labour Party's Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transsexual Society were in the Greencoat Boy pub in Westminster, central London, when a row broke out. The duty manager is alleged to have refused them service and said that had he known they were a gay group he would not have accepted their booking. Punch Taverns, which owns the pub, has launched an investigation.
More details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10249335.stm
There was a debate on the issue of discrimination a few months ago, when a gay couple were turned away from a B&B because the owner said it was "against her convictions" for two men to share a bed, despite being illegal to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation courtesy of the Equality Act 2006.