NYC Cabbie Allegedly Tells Passenger: ‘I Don’t Drive Gays’ – NBC New York

A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.

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The r that I’m ridg shotgun for the eveng is a Homobile.

Homobil is a quirky, pay-what-you-will nonprof r service the Bay Area created by queer people (and their alli), for queer people (and their alli).

It was the bathroom walls that first clued me to the existence of Homobil. The year was 2011, and stickers began to appear the bathrooms of gay bars across the cy.

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A ltle while later, at a party, a iend took out her phone to ll a b, and the host stopped her and told her to text Homobil stead. It turned out several people at the party — not all of them gay — were secret Homobil ctomers. The cy’s taxi pani had already clued to their existence and eaked out, but Homobil mollified them by explag that s drivers only picked up people who lled them first, and that they were pickg up exactly the kd of people — the drag queens, particular — that taxi drivers didn’t want to pick up.

The Homobil bs mol was the oppose of “too big to fail”; was aimg for “too small for anyone to see as petn. William Gibson once said, “The future is here: jt isn’t fully distributed yet” — and few suatns is this more te than the life of the visibly gay.

“A lot of taxi drivers are immigrants om Middle Eastern untri, ” says Rashid, a Homobil regular. He is head to Ltle Orphan Andy’s, a 24-hour gay der the Castro, and wearg a plastic raat and a peach-lored neon women’s bathg su. The later gets, the more Homobil acquir an overall vibe that is one part r service, one part social servic agency.