After a Fayetteville, N.C., bar owner asked Dustin Baker and Andrew Deras to "separate" after they gave each other a "peck," the men followed it up with a laughter ... and another kiss.
"I just gave Andrew a kiss," Baker told local TV station WRAL, "and that's when she started getting really crazy. She's saying, 'This is enough. This is enough,' like basically telling us to get out."
Pam Griffin, the owner of Louie's Sports Pub, stands by her decision to remove Baker and Deras. Initially, "I walked up to them calmly," she said. "I asked them guys, you know, can you kind of just separate, kind of move apart? I don't care if you stay and drink. We don't need to be doing that, and just calm down because you're making people feel uncomfortable."
Baker and Deras didn't feel like complying, especially since they say their initial display of affection was a two-second-long peck. After kissing again and seeing Griffin lose it, the men paid their bill and left.
Griffin said she didn't care that the men were gay; she gave a similar admonition to a heterosexual couple at the bar recently, she told WRAL. But not everyone is convinced she wasn't being homophobic, and she's received blowback on social media from around the nation.