You’ll Never Guess the Latest Business to Be Cited for Not Serving an LGBT Person

Reason.com ^ | 8/6/14

[Impala64ssa]

A Denver bar has been cited by the state's Division of Civil Rights for discrimination because it refused to let a gay man dressed in drag enter. The bar is the Denver Wrangler, and despite what its name might suggest, it is not some Country Western joint. It is, in fact, a gay bar. So the state has determined that a gay bar has discriminated against a gay person.

What happened last summer is that a gay man named Vito Marzano, dressed in drag from a fundraiser elsewhere, wanted to enter the Wrangler. He was denied entry. The bar claims it wasn't because he was cross-dressing but because his image didn't match his driver's license. The bar had been previously cited for serving somebody underage and were now being extra cautious. For those not in the know, gay bars have a history of being targets of scrutiny by authorities looking for excuses to raid them and shut them down.

Marzano is not transgender and has made no claims that he is. Nevertheless, the State of Colorado has determined that the Wrangler has likely violated Marzano's right to public accommodation on the basis of his appearance.

The state's report notes that the bar has a dress code forbidding high-heeled shoes, wigs or appearance-altering make-up or strong perfumes. While the report states there's nothing wrong with the dress code itself, it has determined that the bar uses this code as an excuse to exclude overly feminine women or transgender people. The Wrangler is a "bear" bar, whose target demographic is the burlier of the gay men.

[Impala64ssa]

When protected classes collide. Hopefully this is a sign that the stupidity of political correctness will cause it to collapse under it's own weight. And another thing, many lib/prog types complain about genetically modified food, they say it's UNNATURAL, after all it's not nice to fool with mother nature. Then what the hell is transgenderism. What could be more UNnatural than altering ones sexual identity, physically, not just psychologically? The real horror is when parents put their children through "gender reassignment" therapy because of some "issues" the poor kid may be dealing with. Where the hell are the child protective services when they're really needed?

[Michael.SF.]

The Wrangler is a "bear" bar, whose target demographic is the burlier of the gay men

Does Al Gore know about this place?

[2ndDivisionVet]

"For those not in the know, gay bars have a history of being targets of scrutiny by authorities looking for excuses to raid them and shut them down."

Yeah, maybe 50 or 75 years ago. Today? Don't make laugh. Most big city police departments are riddled with queers.

[ElkGroveDan]

Dinner is served.

[2ndDivisionVet]

And for after dinner...

[doorgunner69]

Geezus, no wonder the beautiful state of Colorado has gone down the sewer................

This was such a gorgeous place to spend my too few childhood days from the 1st through 6th grade.

Now it is a haven to homosexual bars of denominations so diverse you need a decoder?

[RightGeek]

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ve got bad news for you:

The Aloha Bears
http://www.thealohabears.com/

Blazing Saddles
http://hawaii.gaycities.com/bars/3650-blazing-saddles

Phinoex monthly beach party
What is it? Muscle guys and bears dancing from 7 pm
http://www.nighttours.com/hawaii/gayguide/phinoex-monthly-beach-party.html

[GraceG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdbt-sx5MDc

[doorgunner69]

If you were trying to make some sort of lame-azz point, you are failing miserably. In case you are being dense tonight: I am referring to the time frame of about 1952-9. Colorado has gone down the toilet since then it seems, clear?

I lived only six out of my first sixty years in Colorado, the rest were in California. I could give a Shiite what Hawaii does after I moved here, it was certainly not for the politics.

Your efforts to divert and dilute my opinion are worthy of a Monty Python: "I fart in your general direction".

You are better than this, 2dDiv.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I was merely illustrating that they’re everywhere, not just Colorado. BTW, I was born at Lutheran Hospital in Denver and put up for adoption from there by LSS.

[doorgunner69]

Gotcha, but the faggots certainly did not used to be everywhere, certainly not in Colorado. Or if so, they were very deep in the closet.

They were not tolerated, from what I recall from service buddies from Colorado. This "openess" is what disgusts me about a place I would have loved to continue living in if my parents had not moved me.

[NTHockey]

Where the hell are the child protective services when they’re really needed?

Like most government entities, the real purpose of the agency is in direct contradiction to its name.

You doubt it? Take the Department of Energy which with a budget of 30 billion dollars a year has not contributed a single BTU to us. Or the Department of Education with a simmilar budget gives us Common Core. And the list goes on.

[Impala64ssa]

Very true, most of them belong to the Nat’l Assoc. of Social Workers. About 10 years ago, the NASW jumped on the commie bandwagon demanding a new trial for cop-killer mumia abu jamal. This little tidbit alone speaks volumes of where they’re coming from.