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Must-see: Salon owner strikes back after customer refuses gay stylist

Photo credit: Josue Jacques La Volonté / Facebook
Photo credit: Josue Jacques La Volonté / Facebook
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
June 15, 2015

A salon owner in the U.K. is making headlines for taking a stand against a customer who allegedly refused to let a gay stylist cut his son's hair.
According to the Guardian, a couple and their young son recently visited Russell Paul Hairdressing in Prestatyn, Wales. Owner Russell Hughes, 49, said the boy's dad balked when employee Richard Evans prepared to cut his son's hair. The father reportedly said he did not want a gay man to cut the boy's hair and asked Hughes to cut it instead.
Hughes, who is also gay, informed the man of his sexual orientation, and the family left the salon, the Guardian reports.
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"I've never had anything like that before, so it was just disbelief – someone saying that," Evans told the Guardian. "I've not really had to deal with it before, apart from at school."

After the incident, Hughes decided to strike back by posting a controversial sign in the salon's window.

"If you are racist, sexist, homophobic, or an [censored expletive] ... don't come in," the sign reads.

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The sign quickly went viral, appearing in the GuardianDaily PostHuffington Post and other websites.

Evans said the reaction has been generally positive. 

"We've had a lot of people come in and say how great they think it is, how much they love it," Evans told the Guardian. "We had a lady walk past before and ask if she could take a photo."

However, the salon claimed to receive a critical anonymous letter Saturday.
"Why do you push your filth to normal people?" the letter, which the salon posted on its Facebook page, reads in part.

Look what the post man delivered today!! I so wish that the guy who wrote it would of hand delivered it himself, because that's what a real man would of done!! Please share!!!!

Posted by Russell Paul Hairdressing on Saturday, June 13, 2015

The salon responded with the caption, "I so wish that the guy who wrote it would [have] hand delivered it himself, because that's what a real man would [have] done!!"

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