Gay bowling night’s success results in shut down by CA police
”When we go over there at 2 in the morning, expecting to find 30 or 40 people bowling, and instead we see … velvet ropes with 120 people waiting outside – that doesn’t look like a bowling alley to us. It looks like a nightclub, and they can’t do that….. We’re not saying, ‘We don’t want them to do this,’ ‘We don’t like this.’ We’re saying, ‘Get a license. Get it approved.”’
Sgt. Fred Lopez of Orange County, California, explaining why the police shut down a popular gay event at a bowling alley. (OC Register)
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