NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JULY 2, 2007 Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) will hold a press conference Monday morning outside the Caliente Cab Company restaurant on Seventh Avenue South where a bouncer ejected Khadijah Farmer, a lesbian, after the city's annual Gay Pride march because he deemed her too masculine. TLDEF Executive Director Michael Silverman represents Farmer. They will join other local activists to discuss Caliente Cab Company's discriminatory conduct toward Ms. Farmer. They will also demand that the restaurant take immediate steps to address this discrimination and ensure that it does not happen again.

WHAT:
Press Conference

WHEN:
Monday, July 2, 11 am

WHERE:
Outside Caliente Cab Company, 61 7th Avenue South (at Bleecker Street), Manhattan

WHO:
Khadijah Farmer
Michael Silverman, executive director, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund

WHY:
"I was thrown out of the restaurant because of who I am and how I look," Farmer said. "It was humiliating. No one should be subject to that type of discrimination."

"Discrimination against transgender people, or gay men and lesbians who do not conform to gender norms, has no place in New York City," Silverman added.