A gay couple is exploring legal options after a Chicago taxi driver allegedly expelled the two for kissing May 30.
Steven White and Matt McCrea have filed a complaint against Sun Taxi Associates and are exploring other legal options after a cab driver allegedly refused them service May 30.
According to White and McCrea, the two were headed to McCrea's from O'Hare Airport at 11:30 that night. White showed McCrea a video on his phone.
"After the video, he leaned over to give me a kiss," said White. "A peck was really what it was."
The couple said that the driver pulled over on the Kennedy Expressway and told them to get out.
"He said we were making sex in the back seat," White said.
"I was in shock, and I was like, 'We're not getting out here,'" McCrea said. "I was not going to get out on the expressway, and I made that explicit to him."
McCrea said that after they refused to exit on the side of the expressway, the cab driver pulled back into traffic and started to drive erratically.
"He was speeding on the expressway in rain in the dark," said McCrea.
The driver pulled off the expressway at the first available exit where the couple called police.
The two have filed a consumer cab complaint with the city, and have contacted Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union, they said.
Sun Taxi and Associates did not respond to a request to comment by press time.