Comedian, Vancouver restaurant ordered to pay for insults against lesbian

Vancouver Sun ^ | 4-21-11 | Tiffany Crawford and Andrea Woo

[dynachrome]

A Toronto comedian and Vancouver restaurant owner were ordered to pay $22,500 by a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal on Thursday after the standup comic hurled a torrent of sexual insults at a woman and her same-sex partner during a comedy show three years ago.

Amateur standup comedian Guy Earle has been ordered to pay $15,000 to Lorna Pardy, 32, who filed the complaint last year after she and her lesbian partner were taunted at Zesty’s Restaurant on Commercial Drive on May 22, 2007. Restaurant owner Salam Ishmail has been ordered to pay her $7,500.

Earle told The Vancouver Sun Thursday night he will appeal the decision.

Pardy filed a complaint in 2007, claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her gender and sexual orientation in contravention of the Criminal Code. She said Earle directed homophobic and sexist insults at her when she was a patron and he was the master-of-ceremonies at an open mike comedy show at the restaurant.

[dynachrome]

Couldn't happen here, of course/sarc

[dynachrome]

Canada PCnazi ping

[fhayek]

PC in BC ping!

[OldNewYork]

This doesn’t really help their humorless reputation, or the nicknames more appropriate to them than ‘gay’, eg. hairy lemons.

[NWFLConservative]

Rug munchers can be so thin skinned!

Homos, both male and female, just LOVE to draw attention to their depraved lifestyle and will shove it into your face if you're not paying enough attention, but when anyone ELSE does they seek damages for "injury to dignity, feelings and self respect."

I find the last one a little ironic. I find it hard to understand how any homo has any self respect in the first place.

[tet68]

gee, I was hoping to learn some lesbian insults...

[gorush]

I’m as homonauseous as the next guy, but I gotta say, if I were a woman, I’d be a lesbian. How heterosexual is THAT?!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can’t believe that it’s against the law to “insult” a sexual pervert.

[dynachrome]

There were no pics of the, no doubt lovely, couple.

[OldNewYork]

It might come down to Ugandan comedy clubs as your only option.

[OldNewYork]

Just imagine ‘The L Word’, and then imagine in their place those who look nothing like that.

[NWFLConservative]

Would you settle for a lesbian joke? This one is germane to the article........

Q: What kind of humor do lesbians like?
A: Tongue in cheek.

[dynachrome]

Found a pic of one of 'em:

[Army Air Corps]

Is that Janet Reno in the background?

[tet68]

Right, Carpenter love...tongue in groove.

My lesbian apprentice told me this one, but you have
to be a lesbian to appreciate it.

What does a lesbian bring on a second date?

A U-Haul.

[Doe Eyes]

I can’t believe that it’s against the law to “insult” a sexual pervert.

I can't believe it's against the law to smoke a particular leaf.

[spyone]

It’s actually worse than written here. They were drunk, sitting in the front row, heckling the comedian. The comedian did what comedians do to hecklers.

[NWFLConservative]

A woman goes to her gynecologist, and upon examination, the doctor proclaims, “Why, it’s immaculate in there! What do you do to keep yourself so hygenic?”

The woman responds, “I have a woman in three times a week.”

[sportutegrl]

Janet Napolitano finally agreed to build the wall between Mexico and the US. The catch: It must be all tongue and groove.

She also said she wanted it built "lickety-split."

[samtheman]

“His attack showed every sign of being calculated to inflict as much damage as possible, in as short a time as possible, on her greatest vulnerabilities,” he wrote in the decision.

But if fagness is so great, how is it a "vulnerability"?