{"id":369280,"date":"2026-10-09T21:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369280\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:40:35","slug":"cornell-7-inches-wins-best-trivia-team-name-at-jersey-city-gay-bar-then-comes-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369280\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cornell 7 Inches&#8217; Wins Best Trivia Team Name At Jersey City Gay Bar, Then Comes Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owners of Pint, located on Wayne Street in Jersey City,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DePY4vgi7JI\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> issued a video apology on Instagram <\/a>on Thursday, Oct. 8, saying the incident happened without their knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The bar&#8217;s longtime owner called the team name &#8220;truly offensive&#8221; and said it &#8220;violates both how we want to treat our community and standards we have for our business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The trivia host has since been fired, and all money raised during that night&#8217;s event will be donated to sexual violence prevention programs, the owners said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal and the goal we\u2019ve had for 17 years running this bar is making it a safe and welcoming space for everyone,&#8221; the owner said.<\/p>\n<p>The owners also encouraged anyone who felt unwelcome or uncomfortable at the bar to speak up.<\/p>\n<p>The incident sparked heated debate on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/jerseycity\/comments\/1x0gv4s\/pint_bar_is_not_a_safe_space_for_women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reddit<\/a>, where commenters were divided over whether the team name crossed a line and how much blame the bar deserved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rape is never an acceptable punchline, [explative],&#8221; one commenter wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another pointed out that sexual assault survivors are also part of the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of gay SA survivors in this city, it&#8217;s especially abhorrent that one of our spaces is doing this,&#8221; the commenter wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Others argued that while the name was offensive, the backlash against the bar had gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That doesn\u2019t automatically make the entire bar an unsafe space for women,&#8221; one commenter wrote. &#8220;Read the room, call out the bad joke, and move on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another said offensive trivia team names were nothing new, citing a previous team called &#8220;camp mystic swim team&#8221; during the week of the Texas floods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice  and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of Pint, located on Wayne Street in Jersey City, issued a video apology on Instagram on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-369280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}