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August 24, 2012
Oregon Bar Bans Transgender Women
For two years, Cassandra Lynn and her friends have held ladies’ night out at their favorite haunt. On Friday nights, the women meet up for drinks at P-Club Bar and Grill in north Portland, Ore.
But their longtime hangout spot has cast them out through a voice mail Lynn received from the bar’s owner saying she and her friends couldn’t come there anymore because they are transgender.
“Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, I’m going to have to ask for you, Cass and your group, not to come back on Friday nights,” owner Chris Penner says in the voice mail, which Lynn and her friend Victoria Nolan played during an interview with Fox 12.
“People think that (a) we’re a tranny bar, or (b) that we’re a gay bar. We are neither. People are not coming in because they just don’t want to be here on a Friday night now,” Penner adds.
Penner is now under investigation by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries after Lynn filed a discrimination complaint against him last month.
Before the voice mail came out, Penner had told Fox 12 that the accusations didn’t make sense and that anyone who was respectful was welcome in the bar.
But when Fox asked to interview Penner again on Thursday, this time about the voice mail, he declined after talking to his lawyer.
The women said they never ran into any trouble from the bar before, and they dispute Penner’s claim that their presence was hurting business.
“I’ve been there since day one,” Lynn said. “And there were no more people in that bar on the first Friday we were there as the last Friday we were there.”
For now, Lynn and her friends are over their old hangout spot and are just looking for fair treatment.
“We just feel that if we go into a business, we shouldn’t be asked to leave just because we dress different,” she said.
(Lauren Jow, The Advocate)
“…Due to circumstances beyond my control…”
Yeah, the circumstances are forcing you to be a transphobic jag. Sure.
Disgusting. I suggest EVERYONE stop going to this guy’s dump.
Reasons to love Gail Simone.
I think these are both reasons to love YOU, is what.
Such a pity, Gail, that Misfit isn’t coming back. I loved her in Vol 1 of Birds of Prey. She was the perfect pain in the ass for Oracle - a belated penance for all the stunts pulled as Batgirl!
Oh, I probably misworded that…I wouldn’t say she’s NEVER coming back, just that the book idea that I had that included her was eventually passed on.
I might as well talk about it.
This was a book I worked on for a year with alterations. I wanted to do a girl team book featuring Black Alice, Misfit, a young Bumblebee, and led by Stephanie Brown. They would all be going to the same high school. The plan was to have BQM co-write it with me.
It went through lots of permutations and changes but eventually, they passed on it, which was understandable but a little bit (okay, a lot) heartbreaking. I don’t want to say more about it, but that’s a big reason why I was hopeful about some of those characters, because it seemed a pretty exciting premise.
But it doesn’t mean those characters won’t be back at some point, hopefully they will.
parrythemoon:
Stayed up late bickering with husband re which Secret Six character we’d want to bed....
Stayed up late bickering with husband re which Secret Six character we’d want to bed. Life is very silly sometimes.
(I’m totes Team Scandal, ftr. I believe he settled on Catman…)
I don’t know exactly what’s happening here, but I BET THIS WAS THE GREATEST CONVERSATION EVER HELD BY HUMANS.
fuckyeahwhocharted:
KuKu Dance! I Put together this gif from a...
KuKu Dance! I Put together this gif from a few pics from Earwolf today.
Dance, Kulap, dance!
Women of Comicbook Cosplay: WOMEN OF COMICBOOK COSPLAY 2013 CALENDAR MODELS
Here it is folks, the big reveal of exactly who is going to adorn the twelve full colour pages of the 2013 WoCC calendar. A big BIG thanks to all twelve models for their submissions.
I am happy to announce the WoCC models of 2013…
January Stacey Rebecca - Psylocke
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August 23, 2012
postcardsfromspace:
I really hate the Idiot Nerd Girl meme, so...
I really hate the Idiot Nerd Girl meme, so I decided to stage a cheerful coup with the aid of some friends. Join us?
(Edited to fix 2nd link. Join the revolution!)
YES.
gambitgirl1974:
I finished reading all of Secret Six last night.
And now I’m sad.
Because there’s...
I finished reading all of Secret Six last night.
And now I’m sad.
Because there’s not more Secret Six.
Also, I want Bane to be my dad.
No offense, Pop, but you didn’t even OFFER to snap the spine of those girls who were mean to me in jr. high.
Heh. Bane could be my dad, any day.
It’s interesting…people think all the wish fulfillment in superhero comics is in the powers, the adventures. I’d say that’s a big part.
But not the only part.
dandyhernandy:
My mom made some joke today about me being Mexican/an illegal or some shit and the...
My mom made some joke today about me being Mexican/an illegal or some shit and the only thing that went through my mind was
Heh.
It’s a BIT subtextual, but that kind of thing is exactly what was going through my mind when I wrote this, AS MANY HARDCORE RIGHT WINGERS POINTED OUT AD NAUSEUM. :)
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