Hey you cheap, entitled gay, at least that’s what one of the owners of Out NYC thinks of you. The same hoteliers, Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner, who hosted Senator Ted Cruz in their home and first claimed they were unfamiliar with Senator Cruz’s anti-LGBT stances. Later, the pair claimed they did discuss LGBT issues with the Senator and hoped to help him see the light. Now this.
In an interview with New York Magazine, Reisner said, “You know, it’s so ironic — I wanted to build kind of a community center in the gateway to Hell’s Kitchen, which in 2008–2009 was already a gay place and now it’s even gayer. Very close to Broadway. We decided there’d be so many different ways to give back to the community. We show gay artists there. For gay performers, we have let this cabaret club go on for three and a half years. And you don’t make money when you let drag queens in on Tuesday night and 30 people drink at $10 a drink and you have to pay five people to watch over the place. You don’t make money … My only point is, this has not been a profitable venture. Gays are cheap. They’re frugal; gays are frugal. Let me retract that … gays are entitled … Do you know how challenging it is to make a penny off a gay person? I’m gay, I don’t pay cover. I’m gay, where’s my comp drink? [Everyone laughs.] No, I’m being serious! The Out NYC has not shown a profit yet …”
Yet indeed Mr. Reisner. After that comment I would not hold my breath.
