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| Welsh hairdresser bans bigots from his salon with window sign: 'If you are racist, sexist, homophobic or an a***hole ...don't come in' | |
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| A hairdresser has banned all bigots from visiting his salon in Wales after a father refused to let one of stylists cut his 10-year-old son’s hair – because he was gay. | |
| Russell Hughes – who owns Russell Paul Hairdressing in Denbighshire, north-east Wales – placed a sign in his window reading: ‘If you are racist, sexist, homophobic or an a***hole ...don't come in’. | Russell Hughes – who owns Russell Paul Hairdressing in Denbighshire, north-east Wales – placed a sign in his window reading: ‘If you are racist, sexist, homophobic or an a***hole ...don't come in’. |
| Describing how, this week, he was busy with a client, Mr Hughes, 49, asked his colleague, Richard Evans, 23, to see to some parents who had walked into the hairdressers with their son. | Describing how, this week, he was busy with a client, Mr Hughes, 49, asked his colleague, Richard Evans, 23, to see to some parents who had walked into the hairdressers with their son. |
| He said: “The man came up to me at that point and said: ‘I’m not being funny, but did you just say that lad’s going to cut my son’s hair?’ to which I replied: ‘Yes’. | He said: “The man came up to me at that point and said: ‘I’m not being funny, but did you just say that lad’s going to cut my son’s hair?’ to which I replied: ‘Yes’. |
| “’He then said: ‘Well, I assume he’s gay and I don’t want him cutting my lad’s hair, so could you do it?’ to which I said no because I’m gay as well.” | “’He then said: ‘Well, I assume he’s gay and I don’t want him cutting my lad’s hair, so could you do it?’ to which I said no because I’m gay as well.” |
| Mr Hughes said the man stormed out of the salon with his wife and son, adding that the staff was left in shock. | Mr Hughes said the man stormed out of the salon with his wife and son, adding that the staff was left in shock. |
| The hairdresser took to Facebook to post about the incident which attracted a massive response from the public. | The hairdresser took to Facebook to post about the incident which attracted a massive response from the public. |
| Having been on the High Street with his salon for 14 years, Mr Hughes said he had seen the sign online for years – and now had the perfect reason to proudly display it in his salon’s window. | Having been on the High Street with his salon for 14 years, Mr Hughes said he had seen the sign online for years – and now had the perfect reason to proudly display it in his salon’s window. |
| He said: “Now was the time to get it. I've put it in the window to make sure we don't get people like that in here again.” | He said: “Now was the time to get it. I've put it in the window to make sure we don't get people like that in here again.” |