West Village [NYC] Restaurant Ejects Lesbian Customer After Gay Pride March

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK -

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) expressed outrage today after a West Village restaurant threw out a lesbian customer for appearing too masculine shortly after the city's annual Gay Pride march.

Khadijah Farmer patronized the Caliente Cab Company restaurant on Seventh Avenue South, in the heart of New York City's historically-gay Greenwich Village, on June 24. While she was using the women's restroom, a male bouncer came in and began to pound on the door of the stall she was using. The bouncer insisted Farmer was a man and refused to accept her identification as proof she is a woman. The bouncer proceeded to eject Farmer from the bathroom and threw her, her girlfriend, and the rest of their party out of the restaurant...

Khadijah Farmer was mistaken for a man in the ladies' room at Caliente Cab Co. and shoved out by a bouncer.

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Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: West Village [NYC] Restaurant Ejects Lesbian Customer After Gay Pride March: "Caliente Cab Company restaurant on Seventh Avenue South"