
Via Joe.My.God:
A butch lesbian was ejected from a West Village restaurant after last week's Pride parade for using the ladies room. Khadijah Farmer, 27, was confronted in the restroom of the Caliente Cab Company by the restaurant's bouncer, who escorted her back to her table and forced her party to pay their tab and leave.Farmer, who says she is occasionally mistaken for male and is not bothered by such confusion, offered to show the bouncer her ID to prove her gender, but he refused. Farmer is not transgendered, but has retained the counsel of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund who is demanding gender identity sensitivity training for the restaurant's staff.
The listserve for Act Up Army/Queer Justice League is busy with discussion of a potential action at the Caliente Cab Company.
Quite a dream team: TLLDEF, ACT-UP Army and the Queer Justice League? This shit has the making of a comic book epic. Someone get Prism comics and Lambda Legal on the line…
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[...] to an article from the Associated Press, collected on gay news site 365Gay.com and Queerty.com, a lesbian was recently thrown out of the bathrooms of a restaurant here in New York City for [...]
Your subheading for this article "… score free fish taco" is deeply offensive and disturbing. Why on earth do you feel it necessary to make a derogatory comment, especially when you're pointing out an example of a discriminatory violation of a woman's civil rights? This juvenile and sexist attempt at a joke simply adds insult to injury. I'm deeply disappointed in you.
I agree with wildeoutwest. The free fish taco remark is digusting, insulting and completely unnecessary. Once again, your attempt at humor proves what arrogant and bitter queens you are.
Wildoutwest and Ash, relax. AB makes fun of his own as well. Part of his style. Don't like it, move on. BTW, in NYC it is our right to use whichever bathroom feels "gender approriate", according to the city's human rights commission. Often, in a crowded place and if the opportunity presents itself, I identify as female for a few minutes. No one has ever said a word to me.
What's weird is that restrooms in most restaurants in Manhattan these days — and certainly all the bars & dance clubs — are gender neutral. I got un-pee shy way back when Tunnel's bathroom had its own bar & DJ.
Yes, he does make fun of his own, I've been reading the blog for a while. But in this case it feels especially juvenile and pointless. The expression "fish taco" is neither witty nor original.
[...] Khadijah Farmer's turning up the heat on the Caliente Cab restaurant. The butch lesbian got booted from the eatery on gay pride when a bouncer found her in the ladies room. Now Ms. Farmer's looking for some justice – she [...]