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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The bartender who archetypal revealed that the Pride emblem astatine Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden successful Downtown Fresno had been taken down says she ne'er intended to incite a boycott oregon hatred.
The emblem being removed from the Downtown Fresno venue was brought to the public's attraction by erstwhile bartender Makenna Christiansen, who posted astir it connected societal media. She has since discontinue her occupation astatine Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden.
On Tuesday, Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden confirmed that the business’ Pride emblem had been removed the erstwhile week and successful a connection connected societal media apologized for doing so, adding that unit “feel remorse for this egregious misunderstanding.”
The pushback against the Downtown Fresno venue began erstwhile Makenna Christiansen posted connected her Instagram provender that the idiosyncratic successful complaint of the Fresno and Merced brew gardens announced to unit that they had made a idiosyncratic determination to region the Pride emblem that had hung connected the Downtown Fresno location's main barroom for years.
Christiansen had said successful her archetypal bid of posts that, contempt proceeding contiguous upset from some unit and different managers, the manager liable said the determination was made that helium would not enactment the emblem backmost up until the adjacent Pride month.
Christiansen says her volition was ne'er to incite hatred oregon a boycott of Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden, but alternatively to item the disrespect the brew garden's employees had been subjected to by management.
She besides wanted to item the value of the Pride emblem astatine Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden arsenic a awesome of inclusion.
"I did not expect guiltless employees receiving backlash and had I been clearer possibly Tioga's stance connected LGBTQ+ visibility successful our assemblage wouldn't beryllium nether specified scrutiny."
Christiansen says she does not condone immoderate of the unit oregon threats that person travel about, "especially toward members of a institution I proudly worked for."
"If I miscommunicated successful my post, I'm genuinely sorry."
She is calling for continued enactment for Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden's unit and collaborating vendors, "who don't merit to endure financially nor socially."
YourCentralValley.com has reached retired to the manager liable for taking down the Pride emblem but did not person a effect successful clip for this article.
