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Men run out of McDonald’s with homophobic taunts: Lawsuit

This was not a Happy Meal.

Two Manhattan men say they were refused service at an uptown McDonald’s because the cashier thought they were gay — and that the bizarre incident ended with other customers coming at them like a hungry mob, according to a lawsuit.

Willis Washington Jr. and Horace Stevenson III were in the Hamilton Heights Mickey D’s at 2:30 a.m. last December when a fellow customer assumed the two men were gay, they claim.

The customer “started to say he had a problem with gay people and that the gay lifestyle was not what God wants,” according to their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

They ignored the loudmouth, but When they got to the counter, Washington and Stevenson say the cashier joined in the homophobia and refused to serve them, the lawsuit alleges filed last week.

The customers began pushing the two men to the back of the store, prompting a panicked Stevenson to dial 911 before the cashier “actually handed one of the customers a metal pipe from behind the counter and motioned to him that he should hit plaintiffs with it,” according to the lawsuit.

Washington and Stevenson were able to escape, but quickly returned when they saw police arrive, only to end up in handcuffs after they were falsely blamed for the violent encounter, they charge.

Charges were later dismissed against the pair, who were “severely humiliated, mentally anguished and emotionally and physically distressed,” according to the suit.

They are seeking unspecified damages against The Colley Group, the owner of the McDonald’s franchise where the incident occurred. The Colley Group did not respond to a call for comment.