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Aruba Bar in Metrowalk has done it again.  This bar, which reeks of discrimination, has continually refused entry to transgenders via a sign at the entrance:  No Cross-Dressing.

BB Gandanghari went to Aruba Bar & Restaurant because she wanted to watch her friend Rannie Raymundo’s show. But she and her friends were denied entry because they were cross-dressing. A similar incident happened not so long ago – at the same bar, to a different person: Inday Garutay.

“Rules,” Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”
The incident that happened to me and my friends on the night of April 24 is an example of rules violating the principles which motivate humanity to live in equality, to treat each other with respect, and to uphold each other’s dignity.

(continue reading on BB’s Blog www.iambbgandanghari.com)

While Aruba can say that it is their “right” to refuse entry to people and to choose their customers, they do not have the right to discriminate against anyone. They do not have the right to trample on anyone’s dignity just because that person does not conform with their narrow-minded culture and upbringing.  They do not have the right to treat anyone with less respect just because that person is not up to par with their moral standards.  What is Aruba so afraid of that they resort to transphobia? I wonder how people can be so afraid of our beautiful transgender sisters.

I daresay we call for a BOYCOTT of this bar – a bar that thinks that they are so good, they can choose their customers and that they can choose to discriminate!  Stop the hate Aruba because if you continue doing that, I’m pretty sure you will be out of business in no time!

We’re also calling the attention of our dear members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to please do your part in ending the hate, in  putting a stop to all the discrimination against members of the LGBT community.  PASS THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL!

Read more about BB Gandanghari’s experience on her blog: Time For Change!

Searching for photos of Bebe Gandanghari online is quite a task. But the long wait is over! Thanks to ManilaGayGuy, Bebe Gandanghari’s photos (from what seems like a fashion editorial of sorts) have now seen the light of day!

I don’t know about you but there’s something about Bebe Gandanghari that reminds me of Ruffa Guttierez.

More photos after the Jump.

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