Darwell's Happiness Café in Long Beach, Mississippi, sparked controversy after owners Darwell and Nettie Mechelle Yeager posted a video offering a free item only to heterosexual couples. The post included anti-LGBTQ sentiments, stating they do not serve LGBTQ couples, which resulted in widespread backlash from the community and fellow restaurants. Many criticized the special, leading to calls for a boycott by groups like Gulf Coast Equality. Following the uproar, the café deleted the post but continues to face scrutiny for their discriminatory remarks.
"If you come in and you're a couple ... husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, guy, girl couple, the real kind of couple," Darwell Yeager said before his spouse cut in and said, "Because we don't do the trans or the lesbian or gays, I'm sorry."
"When you come in for the next hour and a half and you are a couple, can-produce-a-child couple, we'll give you something free," Darwell Yeager concluded in the since-deleted video that has spread online.
"I have very recently watched a disgusting video put out by Darwell about his Tuesday 'couples' special. I am almost speechless. Almost," Trax Bar and Grill, which is less than two miles from Darwell's, wrote on Facebook this week.
"I wasn't going to say anything, but all in all, you reap what you sow. Hate gets you nowhere," Lauren Joffrion, of Secret Coast Restaurant Group, said on Facebook.
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