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A gay couple’s day at the amusement park turned sour after they were asked to stop showing affection in public.

Brandon Hamilton and Barrett Morrison were visiting Canada’s Wonderland in Toronto on PFLAG Canada’s Gay Day for Pride month in June. According to BuzzFeed Canada, the couple was standing in line for the waterpark when a staff member told them there was a complaint about the couple hugging.

The couple “told off” the employee and called the complaint offensive. The employee agreed the complaint was out of line and apologized.

“We don’t necessarily blame the kid who approached us,” Hamilton told BuzzFeed. “I think he was just relaying a message [from a woman in line] and didn’t think about what he was saying.”

“It’s so offensive and absurd that anyone would consider that not family friendly. It’s just flat-out homophobia,” Morrison continued.

Hamilton and Morrison were frustrated the park’s employees weren’t better trained for the situation. The couple contacted Wonderland and asked for the staff to receive better nondiscrimination training. They also asked for Gay Day to become an official park-wide event.

Wonderland’s general manager Norm Pirtovshek apologized for the incident but insisted staff already received “extensive training” on discrimination. Pirtovshek also said the park would not make Gay Day an official park event because all groups should be treated equally.

In a statement posted on Facebook, PFLAG Canada says it offered to give Wonderland free diversity training, but the park did not respond. PFLAG Canada says the lack of response led to the decision to cancel Gay Day at the park.

“Some have said we should keep doing Gay Day at Wonderland to increase visibility and stand up against oppression, but the only thing the park saw in us was a dollar sign. We need a true community partner and LGBTQ ally,” another PFLAG Canada Facebook post reads.

Toronto’s PFLAG president Anne Crieghton spoke with the Toronto Star and called the ordeal “discouraging and devastating.”

“Staff need to go under some sort of sensitivity training so that they understand that this is Canada and people are allowed to openly show affection,” Creighton told the Toronto Star. “That customers didn’t like seeing two men hug is their problem. It doesn’t require park enforcement.”