André Arthur renamed the rue Saint-Jean and referred to as “the boulevard of aids”

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The host André Arthur

Marie-Renée Grondin

Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:14

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Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:14

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The radio host André Arthur made comments deemed homophobic on the waves BLVD 102,1, Wednesday.

Then it told be went to have dinner at the golden Calf to eat “a good spag family”, the moderator called the St-Jean street “boulevard aids”, “in the heart of the gay district”, since the restaurant is located very close to the bar The Drag and the deceased red Ball, two institutions LGBT.

“In the late afternoon yesterday, I told myself that I had the taste to go eat in the city centre. And, I had such a craving for spaghetti. Gold, in the center of Quebec city, the best place to eat a good spag family, I will not speak of the affairs olé olé, Italians are very advanced there, but in the family, in the not-too-expensive, in the friendly, in the friendly, it is on the boulevard and aids at the heart of the gay district, right between The Dredge and the red Balloon. Is it telling you what I’m talking about? The golden Calf! At the corner of Saint-Augustin and Saint-Jean”, he told in his show, about being denounced by the LGBT community of Quebec.

“This is clearly a homophobe. If you want a good example of homophobia, the atmosphere that it can still exist and well here. To associate the aids directly like this to the LGBT community and he even says “gay district” in its message while in Quebec city, there is not really a village or a gay district official. We condemn these remarks. I do not understand in fact, after all of the remarks that mr. Arthur was able to say in his life, how is it that it still has a micro. This is the proof that it might be time to take him off,” laments the executive director of the Alliance arc-en-ciel, Louis-Filip Tremblay.

Called on to comment, the owner of the restaurant The golden Calf, Joanne Bragoli, do not take offense to such an extent in front of the words of André Arthur, who is a good client. It was not an ad placement.

“He comes to eat here from time to time,” she said. With Arthur, there are two edges. There are those who love it and those who don’t like it. This is correct. […] It’s always like that when he talks to the radio. He loves to exaggerate a little bit. […] It is someone that it’s been years and years you know.”

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