[Khadijah Farmer was mistaken for a man in the ladies' room at Caliente Cab Co. and shoved out by a bouncer.] Posted on 07/03/2007 10:11:56 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
A masculine lesbian was kicked out of a Greenwich Village restaurant after a bouncer - who believed she was a man - saw her in the ladies' bathroom, the woman charged yesterday.
Khadijah Farmer said she felt humiliated by her experience at Caliente Cab Co. on Seventh Ave., which took place last Sunday shortly after the city's gay pride march.
"I felt violated ... to say the least," said Farmer, 27. "I really thought that especially in New York City, especially in the heart of the Village, things like this had stopped happening."
Farmer said she went into the popular Mexican restaurant with her girlfriend and another pal about 10:20 p.m.
The trio ate shrimp and nachos before Farmer, who is 5-feet-5 and has short hair, excused herself to go to the rest room.
[Khadijah Farmer was mistaken for a man in the ladies' room at Caliente Cab Co. and shoved out by a bouncer.]
Just as she was about to enter the bathroom, a woman walked out, flashed her a nasty look and said, "This is the women's bathroom," according to Farmer, who is an HIV counselor.
"I replied, 'I know that. Thank you. This is where I'm supposed to be,'" Farmer said, noting that she was wearing a yellow polo shirt, blue jeans and sneakers.
Moments later, a bouncer burst into the ladies room and began banging on her stall and yelling at her to leave, she said.
The bouncer refused to believe that Farmer was a woman even after she emerged from the stall and attempted to show him her driver's license, she said.
"He totally dismissed that," she said, adding that the bouncer told her "he wanted me out of his bathroom and restaurant."
Farmer was then led out of the restaurant - and her friends were made to pay the bill for their abbreviated meal, she said.
Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, demanded that the restaurant compensate Farmer for violating her civil rights and adopt a policy banning discrimination.
A manager at the Caliente Cab Co. declined to comment.
"I'm comfortable with who I am," Farmer said. "I refuse to change. I don't do anything to accentuate any type of masculinity. I'm just me."
“A bartender at my favorite bar is a lesbo, and she’s gorgeous. She looks like Gwen Stefani only with blue eyes and much curvier.”
Is she single? My redheaded friend broke up with her girlfriend.. maybe they could get together and fuel decades’ worth of fantasies for nearly all the men they meet.
They are called "LUGs" - Lesbian Until Graduation.
A lot of the hot younger ones are doing it to attract guys as well.
I’m not sure if she’s single or not. She hangs out with biker guys and prowls for chicks with them, so I’m assuming she is.
“...Farmer, who is an HIV counselor. “
They just had to put that little gem in.
If this was a male going in the wrong washroom, the restaurant would have had lawsuits flying at them.
Seems this “woman” is upset a nomal woman concluded her appearance equaled male.
Exactly.
The world may never know.
The only one who knows is Pat's partner, Chris.
One week I thought she was a woman and the next I thought a man. Very confusing, which I think was their point. :)
It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world....
Hey, men can pee sitting down.
I wish I'd known one way or the other.
Ain’t that the truth!
I figured it would taste like fish.
I thought Flip Wilson was dead.
It worked.
You folks have never seen Eleonor Holmes Norton.
She makes this Man/woman look like Miss Black America.
Same hair style only she is taller.
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