WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Wichita teenager got international attention after facing hate at work last month. Since then, he has been doing what he can to ensure it doesn’t happen to other young people.
Noah Bierig is a waiter at Bubba’s 33 near Town East Square. He is also gay. Last month, while waiting on some customers, he noticed the glares they were giving him.
“I knew that these people probably didn’t agree with who I was as a person, but I figured that it wasn’t going to get to me, that I was going to give them the best service that I possibly can, and hopefully, I might just change their ways through that,” he said. “That didn’t really happen.”
Faced with hate
“Every time I walked away, it was hard to ignore the laughing that I would hear from that table,” he said. “When they were paying, they were being pretty rude about that as well, just a bunch of laughing about who I am as a person even though they don’t know me.”
