Sacramento Escorts: Gay Bar’s New ID Policy Is a Drag
The new policy at Hunters Nightclub (1932 E Higgins Rd) requires all customers to show a valid photo ID that matches their “gender presentation.” In other words, if you show up looking like a boy or like a girl, then that must match your government-issued ID as well.
This is a major problem for those who cross-dress or who perform in drag.
“Since I am not a full-time trans, it is not really feasible for me to have my ‘femme’ photo on my license,” one patron told the Tribune. Andy describes himself as a “part-time transgender woman” who lives and works as a man but appears as “Jeanette” at the bar. “I do not even know if they would allow it. … This is discrimination, pure and simple.”
Hunters’ owners instituted the policy after reports of drag-queen and transgender prostitutes advertising on Craigslist and using the bar as a meeting place for their customers. Such activity would put the club’s liquor license at risk.
See the full article from “NBC Chicago”