However, the arguing allegedly led to one of the bar’s managers approaching the couple and suggesting that they were at fault for the abuse because of the kiss. Eric said that an older man “told me not to say anything, that they were just jerks.” The man reportedly started to insult the couple, but other bar patrons intervened. “I turned around and I found myself face-to-face with a guy who was around 20-years-old, who said, ‘Aren’t you guys ashamed to kiss here?’ I pushed his hand off my shoulder, and his voice got angrier.” “I felt a hand on my shoulder,” Eric said, in a translation by LGBTQ Nation.