Pesqueira pointed out that he was born and raised in Mexico. 'Someone put it up as satire and we want to make sure everyone is clear that we don't support any of the negative things behind this,' Alix said.
In an email statement and a separate Facebook post, they denounced both the image and the sentiment behind it. The owners are currently investigating how the display went up without permission, Alix told Mic.
'This is not an image we want to portray,' Alix said. The bar's owners, Steven Alix and Jorge Pesqueira, said in a phone interview that they never saw the display and were out of town when it went up - without ownership's permission. 'And if it weren't for Gia, who is a woman of color, the fact that no one else was saying anything about it besides her was shocking for me.' 'As a gay man in Denver, I felt like it's incredible that people would be OK with ,' Garcia said in a phone interview.
