Lesbian couple to flee 'redneck' town

DAVID MURRAY
31jul05
THE lesbian owner of a fish and chip shop has launched an extraordinary public attack on the small Darling Downs town of Crows Nest.

Karen Adams says many of the town's 1600 residents won't go in to the shop she runs with her girlfriend, Kylie Davis.

Others had told their children not to go near "those lesbians", she claimed.

"It's a redneck town," she said.

"They just don't come here (the shop), they go across the road."

Ms Adams and her partner bought the Crows Nest Seafood and Takeaway shop after moving to the town to start a new life about two years ago.

The couple plan to cut their losses and leave the town in just over a month.

They will be almost $100,000 out of pocket after sales more than halved --