Gay-Friendly Restaurant Says Susan Stanton Is Harassing Them
Filed by: Alex Blaze
April 6, 2011 1:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/gay-friendly_restaurant_says_susan_stanton_is_hara.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/gay-friendly_restaurant_says_susan_stanton_is_hara.php)
Here's a situation between a Florida gay-friendly restaurant that runs a gay tea dance on Sundays and city manager Susan Stanton. Long-time Bilerico readers will remember Stanton from our five bazillion posts on her, including when she was fired from a city manager position in another town for announcing she'd transition, when HRC made her their favorite trans woman after the 2007 ENDA disaster, when she said that it's totally fine for trans people to be fired because trans people haven't proved they're "viable workers," and when CNN made a documentary on her. Becky Juro summed up how a number of trans people feel about Stanton with the title "Why the Transgender Community Had to Take Out Susan Stanton."
The restaurant has been harassed by noise complaints for three years, ever since it re-branded itself as a gay hang-out. The restaurant owners went to talk to the city manager about this harassment and say it didn't turn out well:
The city has a vibrant religious community, along the distinction of the largest freestanding cross in Florida residing within the city...
That's all I need to know about Lake Worth - well, other than it's in Florida, the state that exists to make California and Texas look good.