Woman goes on homophobic tirade while being kicked off DFW-bound flight, video shows
A woman was removed from a plane bound for Dallas-Fort Worth after she didn’t wear a mask and spewed homophobic slurs, according to a viral video posted on YouTube on Sunday and first reported on by the Dallas Morning News.
The video shows a woman arguing with other passengers as she stands in the aisle with her belongings. She is calling passengers a homophobic slur as they yell at her to get off the plane. When she does, many of the passengers break out in applause.
The user who posted the original video on YouTube says in the caption that the woman and her children were forcefully removed from an airplane departing from Orlando International Airport for refusing to wear a mask and insulting other passengers. The post doesn’t say which airline the flight was on. The YouTube user did not immediately respond to requests to comment.
The flight was delayed an hour and a half because of the woman’s commotion, a man who was on the flight, Jackson Vanhoose, told the Star-Telegram via email. Vanhoose shared a video of the woman’s homophobic tirade.
Vanhoose said the altercation began because the woman would not wear her mask over her mouth and nose. She started to yell at other passengers and refer to them as a homophobic slur. People on the plane began shouting at her to get off, and the plane had to dock so staff could escort her off the plane.
The video from Vanhoose begins with the woman standing in the aisle with her belongings. Another adult and two children are also in the aisle and appear to be leaving the plane with the woman.
The woman yells, “It’s not about (slur)! It’s about saying no —”
Another passenger interrupts her and says, “Get off the plane!”
“Nobody wants to listen to your bigotry!” the man says.
The woman walks down the aisle, but turns back to yell at the passenger again.
“(It’s about) that Trump won!” she says, seeming to continue her rant where she left off. “That you corrupted Disney? That my kids have to see about sex?”
“You think I talk to my kids about same-sex marriage?” the woman yells to the man from the aisle. “No, we don’t talk about that. But if y’all wanna talk about it, let’s talk about it. About how lesbians—”
Someone cuts her off and says, “I’m in a lesbian marriage and I fought for this country. Please get off this plane.”
The passengers break into applause when she leaves the plane.
The person who posted the video on Youtube identifies the woman by name and says in the comment section that she is a Texas real estate agent. As of Wednesday morning, the real estate agent’s website had been deleted, as well as the woman’s LinkedIn and business Facebook page and she could not be reached for comment.
This story was originally published July 21, 2021 at 12:39 PM.
