A Montreal gay bar is facing a human rights complaint after refusing to serve a female patron. Audrey Vachon, a 20-year-old college student and her father entered Le Stud to kill some time. But once on the patio, the waiter told her women are not welcome in the establishment.

Heterosexuals have been banned from staying at a gay hotel in Australia after the Victorian state Civil and Administrative Tribunal agreed to give the hotel the right to bar people from entering if the management considers them a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons. The management of the Peel Hotel complained that the hotel's straight visitors created "a poisonous atmosphere" for its gay clientčle and asked that they be given the right to keep them out. According to BBC, the management said the ban would prevent straight men and women from abusing the hotel's gay customers.

In an effort to bring sex education into China's public consciousness, the Chinese province of Zhejiang has taken matters into its own hands. Bars and hotels in the Zhejiang province must provide customers with access to condoms and other contraceptives, or face a $650 fine for non-compliance.

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