What's a Self-Storage Manager To Do With a Customer Using The Place to Change In

[Shana A]

What's a Self-Storage Manager To Do With a Customer Using The Place to Change Into His Drag Clothes?

http://www.queerty.com/whats-a-self-storage-manager-to-do-with-a-customer-using-the-place-to-change-into-his-drag-clothes-20101001/

Two phrases I never thought I'd string together: "cross-dressing" and "self-storage units." The manager of a self-storage company posted a query on a forum for, uh, self-storage types about what to do with a customer who walks into his storage unit as a man and walks out as a woman. Refuse to do business with him? Or go to this drag show?

"I have a very bizarre problem," writes hurlco in a thread he started titled "Here comes a drag queen?," Hurlco "rented to a guy who now visits his space as a man, changes clothes and emerges as a woman. He does not look very convincing, in fact, he's quite ugly as a woman. I now have other customers complaining about the freakishness of this guy. Two other customers have now told me that if he doesn't leave, they are moving out. Has anyone encountered this before? Can I kick him out? Can we be sued for asking him to leave or stop his drag queening?"

[Muffin]

The owners concerns about other peoples views on this seems worrying, he seems to be catering to the fears of his (other) costumers.
All he has to tell the ones that are concerned and "freaked" out by it all is that he is harmless and a "performer", it is his "job". Their fears are irrational.
To encourage the fears of people is the biggest problem here, the drag queen has not done anything wrong. It's the people that are complaining that are in the wrong, the complaints are unfounded.. does it really seem so differcult? lol. People............what are we going to do with them.

Not that I feel a need to stand up for drag queens, personally I feel the same in a way.. I have very little interest in what they do but I would never have the nerve to tell them how to live, if I had to see them go about their day etc then so be it. Just like if you work with someone you don't like you don't tell them to change or to stop being who they are, you just accept it and go about your own day! It's no different.
Sorry I know I'm preaching to the choir, I just had to vent that out!

[Janet_Girl]

I have read this several times and just replying here will not help him, but here goes.

This customer is not hurting anyone and for customers to say they will move if it isn't stop is just some Phoebes running the business.  If they don't like the fact that An Arab looking person has a unit there, are they going to make that person move out too?

The manager and owner need to be worried about the meth lab that is going on in some of those units, not someone just doing their job.

[Vicky]

But Janet-- The meth labs are for good upright all American motorcycle gangs who sell the drugs to "normal" crank head users who will beat the tar out of any ->-bleeped-<- or queen in the name of wholesome american values!!    

(Now to get my tongue our of my cheek without resorting to surgery.)