- Bishop Tavern and Lounge
Simply looking for a fun night out with friends, Alex Borrego never imagined she'd find herself at the center of a highly-publicized uproar involving an incident of transgender discrimination.
After all, it was Thursday, ladies night, at the Bishop Tavern and Lounge, located in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, and female bar patrons could drink free until 1 a.m. So naturally, such weighty topics were not on her mind. But that’s exactly what happened after the bar snubbed Borrego, a transgender woman, and her friends earlier this month, kicking them out.
Her mistreatment by the Bishop inspired the transgender and LGBT communities to push back. Trans*Action Florida, formerly known as Florida Organization Regarding Gender Equality (or F.O.R.G.E., as it was referred), has organized a Town Hall-style public meeting to be held at the L Train bar in St. Petersburg tonight.
This article appears in Mar 22-28, 2012.