Ok, so I was reading Metro on the way to school this morning and saw an article about this where they give a little more info. I suck at the Metro website so I'll just type up the article, it's short anyways.
Quote:
Kicked off for Smooching
-> L Word actress says she was removed from plane for kissing partner
The publicist for a lesbian actress and musician who says she was escorted off a flight for "one modest kiss" of her partner says the encounter was not a stunt for her band's upcoming breast cancer awareness tour.
Leisha Hailey, best known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the now defunct Showtime lesbian life drama The L Word, asked her Twitter followers to boycott Southwest Airlines after the encounter Monday.
The airline responded that Hailey's display of affection was excessive and drew customer complaints.
The actress and her partner, Camila Grey, denied in a statement released yesterday that the affection they showed toward each other was inappropriate.
"We want to make it clear we were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves, it was one modest kiss," the written statement said.
Hailey and Grey acknowledge they became upset after the flight attendant reprimanded them. They said the attendant told them that Southwest is a "family airline."
"No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud," the statement said. "You can't whisper hate. We ask this airline to teach their employees to not discriminate against any couple, ever, regardless of their own beliefs."
Hailey and Grey said they plan to file a formal complaint with the airline."
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More and more I'm inclined to agree with her... that this was moreso a case of homophobia than excessive public displays of affection (and again, nobody seems to be going into detail except for Hailey herself who says it was one kiss...if that isn't the case, then why isn't anyone saying anything to the contrary beyond "the customers said it was excessive." If it was excessive, then they should be able to say what exactly happened, if it caught their attention so much.