Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor bar hosts dwarf-tossing event
January 28, 2012 at 8:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDespite repeated calls for its ban, dwarf tossing has once again landed in Canada.
Windsor strip club Leopard’s Lounge & Broil is hosting the Saturday event, in which competitors vie to see who can throw a little person the farthest.
“There’s nothing provincially, and no bylaws here, that would prevent this from going on,” said Windsor city councillor Ron Jones, who was alerted to the upcoming event by an angry constituent.
The event is being promoted on a sign outside the club.
With Ontario government showing no interest in restricting or regulating the small-person toss, he sees no reason why the municipality should intervene.
Jones notes that, far from being forced to participate, the human projectile in question has his own agent.
“A person has a right to make a living,” he said.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarfs tossed among naked dancers at strip bar
January 28, 2012 at 1:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWEEKS after the novelty ’sport’ gained international attention at the Golden Globe Awards, a strip bar has dawn international condemnation over plans to host a dwarf tossing competition.
Customers at Leopard’s Lounge and Broil in Ontario, Canada can register for the chance to literally throw a little person.
Jamie Danforth of Windsor is the father in a family of four little people and called it “ignorance at its highest level.”
“It is insane that in today’s society we still have this going on. I don’t need my daughters thinking this is the type of thing they have to be subjected to,” he wrote in an email to CBC News. “We wouldn’t throw the elderly or people in wheelchairs.”
Windsor resident Jennie Berkley called city councillors Ron Jones and Alan Halberstadt to complain that the event was “degrading” and “ridiculous” and should be stopped.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf tossing draws outrage
January 28, 2012 at 1:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDwarf tossing draws outrage
Dwarf tossing continues to come under fire.
Weeks after the novelty ‘sport’ gained international attention at the Golden Globe Awards, a strip bar in Windsor, Ont., plans to host a dwarf tossing competition Saturday night.
Customers at Leopard’s Lounge and Broil can register for the chance to literally throw a little person.
Jamie Danforth of Windsor is the father in a family of four little people and called it “ignorance at its highest level.”
“It is insane that in today’s society we still have this going on. I don’t need my daughters thinking this is the type of thing they have to be subjected to,” he wrote in an email to CBC News. “We wouldn’t throw the elderly or people in wheelchairs.”
Windsor resident Jennie Berkley called city councillors Ron Jones and Alan Halberstadt to complain that the event was “degrading” and “ridiculous” and should be stopped.
See the full article from “Updated News”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf-tossing lands in Ontario strip club
January 28, 2012 at 1:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWINDSOR, Ont. – Despite repeated calls for its ban, the sport of dwarf tossing has once again landed in Canada.
Windsor, Ont., strip club Leopard’s Lounge & Broil is hosting the Saturday event, in which competitors vie to see who can throw a little person the farthest.
“There’s nothing provincially, and no bylaws here, that would prevent this from going on,” said Windsor city councillor Ron Jones, who was alerted to the upcoming event by an angry constituent.
The event is being promoted on a sign outside the club.
With Ontario government showing no interest in restricting or regulating the small-person toss, he sees no reason why the municipality should intervene.
Jones notes that, far from being forced to participate, the human projectile in question has his own agent.
“A person has a right to make a living,” he said. “If the person being tossed was being tossed against his will, then it’s a human rights issue, and I’d be all over it.
See the full article from “Canada.com”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf-tossing event back for more
January 28, 2012 at 1:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… A poster advertising a dwarf toss is pictured in the men’s washroom at Leopard’s Lounge and Broil, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.Photograph by: Dax Melmer, The Windsor Star
WINDSOR, Ont. — After an absence of nearly a decade, and to the outrage of some, the controversial sport of dwarf tossing is making its return to Windsor tonight.
âBy throwing little people through the air for money, the event objectifies and degrades an entire class as lesser people,â said Windsorâs Jennie Berkeley.
The competition at Leopardâs Lounge & Broil, a west-side strip club, is an âoffence against human dignity and decency,â she said.
Berkeley protested to her ward city councillor after seeing a sign outside the Wyandotte Street business promoting this weekendâs event, but Ron Jones said thereâs little the municipality can do.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: House of Tolerance (18)
January 27, 2012 at 11:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsBertrand Bonello’s film offers a bleak, unyielding yet sumptuously beautiful view of prostitutes‘ lives in Belle Epoque Paris.
Set almost entirely within a well-appointed brothel, it is less a drama than an unfolding fresco describing the everyday routine of its inmates and the dangers of their trade – from disease, age, addiction, and the occasional savagery of the rich male clients. The grotesquely cut face of Madeleine (Alice Barnole), resembling Heath Ledger’s Joker, haunts the mood through to the end. “This isn’t a knocking shop,” says the madam (Noémie Lvovsky), half-benign headmistress, half-jailer, looking after her girls but also loading them with debt to prevent their escape. She has her own problem: the rent is about to sky-rocket, and her vain appeal to an influential customer means the house will close. A day’s outing to the country is the sole respite, with Josée Deshaies’ exquisite cinematography nodding to the sunny uplift of Renoir, before returning to the gloomy interiors and wistful glances of Lautrec, Degas and Manet.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf-tossing contest at Ont. strip club not illegal
January 27, 2012 at 6:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAn Ontario strip club that was the impetus for a law against so-called dwarf-tossing is at it again. The law never passed, so Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, in Windsor, is holding another dwarf-tossing contest Saturday.
“Uncle Leos has invited back our little friend for the party of the year,” says the club’s Facebook page. “All skill levels of dwarf tossers are welcome to attend this event (from rookies to veterans to dwarf-tossing pros).”
Dwarf-tossing involves bar patrons throwing a little person volunteer, usually dressed in padded clothing, onto a mattress. Participants compete to see who can throw him or her the farthest.
Leopard’s Lounge hosted a similar contest in 2003, which prompted area MPP Sandra Pupatello to introduce a private member’s bill to make the activity illegal.
“This evening in my riding, a particular establishment is actually planning an event that includes dwarf-tossing. My community is up in arms. My phones have been besieged. The community is outraged that this event should be allowed to happen,” Pupatello said to the legislature in June of that year.
See the full article from “CANOE”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf tossing draws outrage
January 27, 2012 at 6:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDwarf tossing draws outrage Little person community angry with strip club’s competition CBC News Posted: Jan 27, 2012 12:45 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 27, 2012 3:05 PM ET
During an acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, little person and actor Peter Dinklage spoke out against dwarf tossing. (Dan Steinberg/Associated Press)
Dwarf tossing continues to come under fire.
Weeks after the novelty ‘sport’ gained international attention at the Golden Globe Awards, a strip bar in Windsor, Ont., plans to host a dwarf tossing competition Saturday night.
Customers at Leopard’s Lounge and Broil can register for the chance to literally throw a little person.
Jamie Danforth of Windsor is the father in a family of four little people and called it “ignorance at its highest level.”
“It is insane that in today’s society we still have this going on. I don’t need my daughters thinking this is the type of thing they have to be subjected to,” he wrote in an email to CBC News. “We wouldn’t throw the elderly or people in wheelchairs.”
See the full article from “CBC.ca”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor, Ont., bar holding dwarf tossing contest
January 27, 2012 at 6:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe Leopard’s Lounge and Broil strip club in Windsor, Ont. is sponsoring a contest to see who can toss a dwarf the furthest.
WINDSOR, Ont. There was outrage in the past when a dwarf tossing event was held in Windsor, Ont., and it’s happening again. The Leopard’s Lounge and Broil strip club is sponsoring a contest to see who can toss a dwarf the furthest on Saturday night. Jennie Berkeley called her city councillor after seeing a sign promoting the event. She says she can’t believe something like this is allowed in this day and age. Coun. Ron Jones says there’s no law on the books, provincial or municipal, preventing it. A Windsor member of the Ontario legislature tried in 2003 to get dwarf tossing banned in the province. Sandra Pupatello’s failed Dwarf Tossing Ban Act proposed a fine of up to $5,000 for organizing or participating in a dwarf tossing event.
See the full article from “CTV.ca”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Two Domestic Partners in Michigan Sue Governor over Adoption Rights
January 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… They own a home together and are raising three small children who come from troubled backgrounds. One child was abandoned by her homeless mother; one was born prematurely to a drug-addicted prostitute, according to the complaint.
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”J was born on November 9, 2009, at Hutzel Hospital, premature at 25 weeks, to a drug-addicted prostitute. Upon birth, he weighed 1 pound, 9 ounces and tested positive for marijuana, cocaine, opiates and methadone. His birth mother abandoned him immediately after delivery. J remained at the hospital in the NICU for four months with a myriad of different health complications, and was not expected to live. If he survived, he was not expected to be able to walk, speak or function on a normal level in any capacity. J’s foster care agency requested that DeBoer and Rowse take him home, and both DeBoer and Rowse were certified by the State as foster parents and legal guardians for J. Thereafter, Rowse adopted J as a single person in Wayne County Circuit Court. J is in intensive occupational and physical therapy. With Rowse and DeBoer’s constant care and medical attention, many of J’s physical conditions have resolved.”
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