Man Booted from Hospital While Trying to Visit Male Partner

Refused recognition as a couple

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee's Summit man is fighting a restraining order that he says was issued against him after he says he was arrested for refusing to leave the bedside of his sick partner.

Roger Gorley went to visit his partner, Allen at Research Medical Center, 2316 E. Meyer Blvd., Tuesday afternoon.

He says when he got there, a member of Allen's family asked him to leave.

When Gorley refused, he says hospital security forcibly removed him from the property and put him in handcuffs.