QuoteGay activists and civil rights lawyers will go to court Thursday to try to stop the NYPD from closing Chi Chiz, a Christopher Street bar that caters to homosexual and transgendered black men.

QuoteWitnesses will include Raven, a transgender Chi Chiz bartender. "She gets pulled over almost every night driving home from work for alleged prostitution," Shanahan said. "It's ridiculous."

Quote"I said to the judge, when the city figures out how to keep drugs off Rikers Island, they can hold us to the same standard."