Lviv hotel refuses to settle participants of Equality Festival

The hotel administrator called the Equality Festival participants “perverts who spoil the reputation of the city.”

The Lviv hotel administrator refused to settle 25 participants of the Equality Festival, which had to be held in the city on the weekend. The hotel management reasoned their refusal by saying that the festival participants “spoil the image of the city.”

As Zaxid.net online media outlet reports, referring to festival’s organizer Olena Shevchenko, the participants of the festival booked 14 suites in the Lviv hotel on Wednesday but on Friday, March 18, the hotel manager called them and said that booking was cancelled. However, she did not explain the reasons.

When the festival organizers tried to find out the reasons for refusal directly at the hotel, the administrator raised the scandal. She called the participants of the festival “perverts who spoil the reputation of the city.”

The representatives of the NGO “Insight” published the audio recording of the quarrel in the lobby. Having listened to it, a conclusion about discrimination on sexual orientation on part of the hotel administration may be made.

The Lviv hotel administration refused to comment on the matter.