Gay Reaction to Trans Protest at Buffalo Bar Shows We Have a Long Way To Go

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Gay Reaction to Trans Protest at Buffalo Bar Shows We Have a Long Way To Go

by Suzi Chase
7/22/15

https://www.susans.org/2015/07/22/gay-reaction-trans-protest-buffalo-bar-shows-long-way-go/

It started on the night of Thursday July 16, when Billie Matthews, who identifies as a transgender woman, was thrown out of a bar after being asked to leave the women's room. The Cathode Ray serves the Allentown area of Buffalo, in a neighborhood frequented by members of the LGBT community. It is a place that is known to be gay-friendly.

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Trust me--nothing in Buffalo is 'gay friendly'. I have a great deal of experience through friends who live there, and they tell me it is anything but friendly. The companies say inappropriate things in teh workplace, the sport-parents talk about everything/everyone in a demeaning manner...the whole place reeks of disgust for anything not hetero and caucasian. More than one gay/trans friend has fled the place and not looked back.