A swim teacher has declared he feels humiliated after being continually turned away from venues due to his distinctive body tattoo.
Felipe Mattos, 32, isn t hard to spot in a crowd thanks to his neck tattoo, which reads peace .
He said he never encountered any issues when living in places like Sydney and Darwin - but it has been a very different story on the Gold Coast s party strip. Having tattoos doesn t make me a criminal. I work with children, I have been a government employee but yet I am treated like a trouble maker, he told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
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HE says he comes in peace, literally - but Gold Coast clubs still won t let him in. For years, swim schoolteacher, PT and club DJ Felipe Mattos has sported a large neck tattoo that reads Peace. It was only when he arrived on the Gold Coast that it became a problem, he says. In the past nine months the 32-year-old Broadbeach resident said he had been denied entry to at least three different venues and now is calling out what he believes is discrimination. I ve lived in Sydney, Darwin, all over Australia but I have never had any issue until I came to the Gold Coast, he said.
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