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Their minds are in the gutter; their
hearts are in the bathroom.
Report for October 24, 2003
Sodomites place a real premium on their bathroom
experiences. Around the world, they commit all sorts of creative, vile
acts in bathrooms located in parks, waysides, and shopping centers.
Threaten the bathroom rights of a sodomite, and you are looking for a
fight. Unless they are willing to do battle with the sodomite nation,
American men had better get used to the idea of their wives and daughters
sharing bathrooms with perverted males pretending to be females. Well
after all, isn't discrimination always wrong, and aren't we all against
it? (See
"A
Little Discrimination Can be a Good Thing.")
Suit Against Transphobic Landlord Moves Forward
by Doug Windsor, 365Gay.com Newscenter, New York Bureau
October 16, 2003
New York City - A judge has freed the way for the Hispanic AIDS Forum, New
York's largest Latino AIDS service provider, to proceed to trial in a case
against its former landlord for transgender discrimination.
HAF, represented by the ACLU, brought suit against its former landlord for
illegal eviction after the landlord complained that HAF's transgender
clients were using the "wrong" bathrooms and banished all
transgender people from the common areas of the building.
"It is unfortunate that the bathroom has once again become a
battleground in the fight for equal rights," said James Esseks,
Litigation Director of the ACLU's AIDS Project. "The landlord's
decision to exclude transgender people from the bathrooms and common areas
was just as wrong today as it was 50 years ago when business owners in the
South tried to force African Americans to use separate bathrooms."
The court's ruling rejects a motion by the landlord who claimed that
transgender people are not protected by the state's civil rights laws and
concurs with other New York courts in interpreting the state's civil
rights law to include protections for transgender people.
This is the first lawsuit under New York's civil rights law that has dealt
with the issue of which bathrooms are appropriate for transgender people
to use. After this lawsuit was filed, New York City amended its civil
rights law to provide explicit coverage for transgender people.
"By allowing this case to go forward, the judge has rightly
recognized that transgender people are protected under New York State's
civil rights law," said Kesari Ruza, of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein &
Selz, which is litigating the case with the ACLU as cooperating attorneys.
"Transgender people no longer have to fear being fired from their
jobs, kicked out of their homes or being mistreated by businesses and
agencies that serve the public."
The suit on behalf of HAF was filed in June 2001 after the agency was
forced out of its home of 10 years in Jackson Heights, Queens - an
epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in U.S. Latino communities - because the
landlord yielded to complaints from another tenant that the agency's
transgender clients were using the "wrong" restrooms. HAF says
it repeatedly tried to negotiate with the landlord to reach an agreement
that would be acceptable to all parties over the use of the restrooms, but
the landlord refused to renew the lease, saying he didn't even want the
transgender clients in any of the common areas of the building.
"I'm relieved that the judge has agreed to give us our day in
court," said Heriberto Sanchez Soto, Executive Director of HAF.
"As is all too often the case when people resort to hate and
intolerance, the consequences of the landlord's actions went far beyond
the target of his bigotry. Because we were forced to relocate, many of our
clients with HIV and AIDS are forced to travel much further for
treatment."
Homo-Fascism
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