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Transgendered singer files complaint over karaoke

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/entertainment/x1577099284/Transgendered-singer-files-complaint-over-karaoke (http://www.norwichbulletin.com/entertainment/x1577099284/Transgendered-singer-files-complaint-over-karaoke)
9/5/2008

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — A transgendered woman who says a Connecticut
bar refused to allow her to sing on a karaoke night has filed a
complaint with the state Liquor Commission.

Michelle Merrill says a manager at the Skyline Restaurant in Windsor
Locks would not let her sing on Aug. 22 because she is a transsexual.


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more here too.

Karaoke bar denies microphone to MTF transsexual

(http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/last_word/2008/09/karaoke-bar-denies-microphone.html)

That sucks.  I've sang both with Karaoke and in musicals.  Of course I didn't go to sing "as a transsexual", but rather just as a woman.

I think there's a case to be made for not letting people near a karaoke machine when they're raging drunk... once you've seen the chorus of "I Will Always Love You" accompanied by a sparkling, lime-green fountain of projectile vomit and a loud thudd as the 'singer' falls of the stage in a wildly flailing, uncoordinated spasm of inebriation... not pretty.

If you can sing the words, and keep the contents of your stomach where it belongs (not all over the unfortunate onlookers), it shouldn't matter about gender, age, sexual preference or anything.

I hope the complaint is upheld. That was totally out of line.

Quote from: Leiandra on September 05, 2008, 02:25:53 PM
I think there's a case to be made for not letting people near a karaoke machine when they're raging drunk... once you've seen the chorus of "I Will Always Love You" accompanied by a sparkling, lime-green fountain of projectile vomit and a loud thudd as the 'singer' falls of the stage in a wildly flailing, uncoordinated spasm of inebriation... not pretty.

:D
Thanks a lot for the laugh
I needed it

I think there's a case to be made for not letting people near a karaoke machine when they're raging drunk

Or really, even if they are sober.  Really, unless your Japanese and in Japan, they should be forbidden.

Quote from: tekla on September 05, 2008, 10:35:50 PMReally, unless your Japanese and in Japan, they should be forbidden.

I've actually heard some really good singers at karaoke.  Also, I know people that were in the last musical I was in like to do karaoke regularly, so it's not just bad singers.  In fact, most of them aren't that bad at all.