Christian Dingus, 28, was with his partner when, he says, employees told the couple not to kiss inside, and the argument escalated outside.

A gay man accused a group of Washington, D.C., Shake Shack employees of beating him after he kissed his boyfriend inside the location while waiting for their order.

Christian Dingus, 28, was with his partner and a group of friends at a Dupont Circle location Saturday night when the incident occurred, he told NBC News. They had put in their order and were hanging around waiting for their food.

“And while we were back there — kind of briefly — we began to kiss,” Dingus said. “And at that point, a worker came out to us and said that, you know, you can’t be doing that here, can’t do that type of stuff here.”

The couple separated, Dingus said, but his partner got upset at the employee and insisted the men had done nothing wrong. Dingus’ partner was then allegedly escorted out of the restaurant, where a heated verbal argument occurred.

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    3 months ago

    My suggestion doesn’t even have a thing to do with them being gay.

    but they are, and you’re still doing all these mental gymnastics to rationalize the bigotry and hate that was unleashed towards them.

    Dude sometimes people exaggerate.

    apparently, only LGBTQ+ people when being attacked and not, perhaps, the Shake Shack employees who assaulted them.

    your automatic victim-blaming and vehement defense of the bigotry, even making up stories to rationalize it, shows who and what you really are.