Chicago’s strip club nudity rules could be eased following settlement with transgender woman

The Chicago Tribune ^ | December 20, 2019 | John Byrne

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Women could soon be allowed to bare more flesh in Chicago strip clubs that sell liquor in a loosening of the city’s nudity rules following a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.

Bea Sullivan-Knoff filed the federal lawsuit in 2016 because she said it was discriminatory that she couldn’t appear topless without “pasties” covering her nipples as part of her performance art pieces.

Sullivan-Knoff on Thursday said Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration had agreed to settle the suit by removing all references to gender from the statutes governing how much flesh can be shown in various Chicago establishments.

“I am grateful that women and trans, nonbinary and intersex folks now have the option to express their bodies more freely in this city,” Sullivan-Knoff said at a City Hall news conference.

Sullivan-Knoff’s attorney, Brendan Shiller, said the settlement will also ease rules that currently require women to affix “pasties” if the establishment in which they are performing sells liquor.

“That is one of the side effects, yes,” Shiller said. “It no longer makes a gender distinction, and that was the city’s choice in terms of when we negotiated, how they would resolve this.”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Pulled in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

DANG!

[facedown]

Pleeaaaaaasssssssssssssssseeeee, no pictures.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Chicago’s ding-bat mayor is sticking to the script that her fellow crazies wrote for her . . . Chicago will soon be a city that no one will take their family.

I truly hope that God tosses a few well-aimed bolts of lightning down on the next “pride” parade. I know He is long-suffering, a lot more than I would ever be.

[gibsonguy]

This is so sick on so many levels.

[FatherofFive]

Sodom & Gomorrah ain’t got nothing on us.

[SuperLuminal]

I prefer the glazed with raspberry filling...

[SuperLuminal]

Oh wait! Thought it was about pastries not pasties...

[PGalt]

LOL! LGBTotalitarian

(from the makers of - create an aggrieved collective. Straight Outta Compton? No, straight outta the DC Divide & Control POWER CENTER.)

[proxy_user]

Strip-club owner: “Why is the number of customers down so much? What happened?”

[SES1066]

Strip-club owner: “Why is the number of customers down so much? What happened?”

That 3rd dancer, the one you hired because of that Alderman's request. Well when the 7th veil dropped, turns out there was a dangle there. It was not pretty after that and it pretty much cleared out the place.

[ealgeone]

Chicago will soon be a city that no one will take their family.

Chiraq has been on that list for a long time.

[cloudmountain]

“I am grateful that women and trans, nonbinary and intersex folks now have the option to express their bodies more freely in this city,” Sullivan-Knoff said at a City Hall news conference.

What in the world is a NONBINARY?

[Army Air Corps]

This thread is perfectly good without pictures.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I’m glad that Chicago has its priorities right.

[chaosagent]

Well, depending on where you live, pasties ARE a pastry.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’m the number of men who want to watch a “woman” with a penis strip and swing it in their face.

[bk1000]

When are people going to say no to this crap?

[KarlInOhio]

Chicago’s strip club nudity rules

That's the only gun control I can agree with.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’m sure the number of men who want to watch a “woman” with a penis strip and swing it in their face ranks in the tens if not dozens.