This post is more information on the Tuesday night ban of drag queens and transgender women at Crews Inn. Ivana Tramp, one of the trans women kicked out of Crews Inn last Tuesday, just shot this artwork with local photographer Brett Vander last week.
“It’s funny to me that this is all happening. Because back at Stonewall it was the draq queens who really stood up for the rights of our whole community and were the first to fight for our rights,” Tramp said.
For now the protest is scheduled at 10 p.m. Tuesday. Keep checking here for updates. And look after the jump for more photos from the story.
Owner David Moore says that some big names in the Dallas drag world would lock themselves inside this bathroom with two or three guys.
“As far as DPD [Dallas Police Department] and TABC [Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission] are concerned, there is something going on besides someone taking a piss,” Moore said.
According to Moore, when his staff asked the top talents to leave the restroom, they got angry. He says one threw a beer bottle at an employee’s face and another time one threw glassware. Both drag queens implicated deny that it ever happened.
In case you’ve never seen the front of the Fitzhugh bar.
Emelisa Nunez, who used to perform as Celeste Williams, was also one of the transgender women kicked out Tuesday.
Performer Vikki Wright works as James at Crews Inn. He says his boss is right on the money about how draq queens are behaving in the bar. This is him inside the Crews Inn back office.
Vikki Wright is SOOO wrong! Look for Kia at the protest and don’t make me take out my hoops girl. I’ll be the bitch slathered in Vaseline in case the cops wanna act up on a bitch…
One of our employee’s just found this online, and we thought it was interesting:
Dear Editor:
Over this last weekend, I decided to dress in drag to see how drag queens are treated by our own community. I am not one to do drag nor do I have a desire to do so again. It was an interesting experience. The thing that stood out to me was how badly treated our own LGBT community tends to treat a person in drag. I was very disappointed. I was called tranny had things thrown at me and laughed at in my face by gay men. No one recognized me yet when they did they were embarrassed. I am writing this to point out that recently we received the right to get married. I guess I wanted to point out to the community that none of this would have happened with out the Drag queens and other members of our community (which doesn’t receive much credit) revolting and starting Stonewall. It was an experience and I can now say that I have a lot of respect for transgender and drag queens. I realized it must be hard for them because they are rejected by the straight community and made fun of by some of the gay community.
I personally feel we should embrace all in our community and remember that like on the Center’s building “Alone we can do so little but together we can achieve so much.†Happy Pride everyone and hope you have a great and safe time.
Raymond Portillos Leon
http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=12499
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https://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=12617
You can count on Mod to be there, and don’t think he won’t have his bedazzeled taint in tow, just in case he has to bust it out for a photo op…
It’s wrong to lump everyone together and make rules that apply to everyone in that group, when only a few were actually misbehaving.
Mr. Moore has every right to throw people out of his bar for misbehaving and ignoring the rules he has established, but it shouldn’t matter if they are drag queens, transpeople, or Republicans.
Isn’t this the same Vicki Wright that is deeply involved in the Miss Gay Texas America pageant?
WOW…and to think she would stand by this dinosaur and disparage those that participate in the same artform as her.
David Moore has been doing things like this since I moved back to Dallas from school in 2001.
I used to be a dancer there for apx 6 weeks and didn’t show up for my next shift after the constant sexual comments made by Mr. Moore (yes I know I was a dancer, but you can be complimentary and still keep it professional).
My ex, Sierra N. Andrews, and I one year decided to go to Crew’s Inn after our friend won the Missed America charity pageant…and we were told that my ex and our friend could not enter because they did not look like “men.” When my ex politely questioned the doorperson, David Moore burst out, grabbed her by the arm and shoved her out the door. Yes, definintely a class act.
My current partner and I will not patronize this establishment again. The patio area in the back constantly smells like sewage and the dancers are not attractive like they used to be. On the other hand, his neighbor on the other side of the street had great music now, a great crowd and hot strippers on Tuesdays. And to think that Zipper’s used to be a dump and Crews used to be hot….
Maybe David should either take a look around him and do something to fix his bar…or hand the torch over to the new generation. Nevertheless, he needs to remember that there is a T in that LGBT acronym.
– John Vance
hey there, this is wrong… remember that one day we all use to be the same little gay boys wanting to get in… but years go by and some feel they need to go in a different direction… i believe we should be treated with respect that we deserve, we all seek the respect from the other world, but how do we gain that respect if we cant give it to our selfs…. I am certicied to teach the TABC certications and find the importance in this issue…. but dont judge everyone by the way they dress but by the way each one acts at that point in time… we all hurt at the end cause of one mis – jugdement … we all have been there one point in time, but we are all thge same in the inside… we are all gay men… just wanting to be excepted… remember the person in the stale next to me may be doing the worst thing in your establishment (drugs) but he wont be thrown out cause he is dressed as a boy, but i live as a woman and i cant even come through the door…. remember at the end we all hurt cause we dont gain the respect of the straight world but issues like this is were they find to disrepect us…
“hey there, this is wrong… remember that one day we all use to be the same little gay boys wanting to get in”
“we are all gay men… just wanting to be excepted… remember the person in the stale next to me may be doing the worst thing in your establishment (drugs) but he wont be thrown out cause he is dressed as a boy, but i live as a woman and i cant even come through the door”
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And THAT boys and boys is EXACTLY what further’s the stereotype that all transsexuals (post and pre-op) are merely gay males …
This affair has nothing to do how drag queens look. It doesn’t mater if they are tall, short, ugly, or black. What matters is how they act. When drag queens graduate from their extended adolescence into adults –called transgendered members of society — then all this nonsense with the law and civil society will stop. After all, there is more to life than parading down Main Street in expensive costumes while cracked on sexual urges and street drugs! Get out of the dark and show your faces in the light of day you dragged out wanna be queens!