Alamo Drafthouse's Long History of Minimizing Sexual Assault and Harassment

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[QUOTE]Every time Jill Lewis goes back to the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater where she worked for a decade, she sees the face of a man she learned to fear because of his sexually aggressive behavior. It’s right there on the wall: one of the faces on a mural, painted to celebrate their favorite customers, in the theater’s lobby on South Lamar in the company’s hometown of Austin
When Lewis began working her way up from food runner in 2001 to manager of the South Lamar location, the theater wasn’t yet one of the hippest and most respected brands in movies. Though a local landmark, it hadn’t begun expanding to high-profile events like the annual international film festival Fantastic Fest, or growing to more than 25 locations in seven states, with more than 5,000 employees. But late in her tenure with the company, around 2008 or 2009 while she was working at the South Lamar location, one of the chain’s regular customers grabbed her in the hallway
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I've just posted the first two paragraphs but it's worth reading the whole thing
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