Gay bar battles bid to close it

[Allamakee]

Gay bar battles bid to close it
New York Post
August 21, 2010
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/gay_bar_battles_bid_to_close_it_KKKLmKE9jyWvwjlIVuu5rM

Gay 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.

Witnesses 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."

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"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."

This.