Now here’s something you don’t see every day – a gay bar that might be facing a discrimination complaint from the ACLU.
An Elk Grove Village gay bar popular with cross-dressers now requires them to show a valid photo ID that matches their “gender presentation.” Put another way, they now need a photo ID that shows them in drag.
Hunters Nightclub reluctantly imposed its new ID requirement because cross-dressing prostitutes were advertising on Craigslist and mentioning the establishment, said manager Peter Landorf.
“They’re implying they’re coming here,” said Landorf, whose new rule could cut down on his cross-dressing clientele. “If it is prostitution in any form, that could cost me my liquor license.”
So cross-dressers must show a government-issued photo ID that shows them in drag. Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said this could be discriminatory.
“The fact is, if they are only requiring this of cross-dressers, that would be problematic because it would single out cross-dressers or transsexuals for a special burden,” Yohnka told the Chicago Tribune. “Under the Illinois Human Rights Act, they can’t do that.”
Yet another legal prostitution calamity brought to you by Craigslist.
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