Revelers can do almost anything at Canada’s Wonderland: surge in a train car at highway speed down a near-vertical incline, swoop on a gargantuan swing, scarf down pounds of bulk candy and free-fall 70 metres while strapped in a chair.
But if you’re gay and you hug your partner?
Not so fast, apparently.
Barrett Morrison and Brandon Hamilton went to the Vaughan amusement park on June 18 to mark the annual “Gay Day” at Wonderland, organized this year by advocacy group PFLAG and Pride Toronto.
Waiting in line for the Lazy River, Morrison said he and his partner hugged —as any couple might on such an occasion.
Apparently somebody didn’t like that.
Morrison said they were approached by a Wonderland worker who told them there was a complaint. The worker asked them to stop hugging and said “we should check our behaviour because it’s a family park,” Morrison said.
The park’s general manager has since apologized to the couple and has “reiterated the importance” of the incident to employees several times, according to spokesperson Soulla Lindo. She said the staffer in question has not been disciplined because they haven’t been able to figure out who it was.
“All we were doing was hugging,” Morrison, 37, recalled in an interview. “It’s not like we had our hands down each other’s pants. It was just natural touching like any other couple in the park.
“It’s just the point, the point that that s--- shouldn’t happen from an employee of a major corporation.”
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My house shook.
RIP to the person who died, hope others affected come out okay. My brother was a at a friend's house who lives right around there.
