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In 2009, a local lesbian couple claimed that they were unfairly asked to leave the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring after a manager at the restaurant witnessed them in an embrace. Today, the diner’s back in the news for similar reasons.

The management of Tastee Diner in Silver Spring has posted some surveillance video to YouTube that shows the affectionate behavior in question in the case of Aiyi’nah Ford and Torian Brown, a local lesbian couple who recently organized a kiss-in protest at the restaurant after they say they were asked to leave because of their sexual orientation. The video itself is grainy and hard to make out. Here’s what the folks at Tastee have…

Photo by MatthewBradley The Washington Blade reports (hat tip to The New Gay) that a kiss-in protest is planned for this evening at the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring. Aiyi’nah Ford and Torian Brown, a local lesbian couple, say that during a recent visit, they were asked to leave the restaurant by the manager after he observed them embracing. Ford said a manager she identified only by the first name Paul, asked if they…