Police: Taxi driver kicked gay men out of r for kissg

Contents:

• NYC CABBIE ALLEGEDLY TELLS PASSENGER: ‘I DON'T DRIVE GAYS'
• A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.
• BOLT APOLOGIS AFTER TAXI DRIVER LEAV QUEER MAN STRAND WH ‘NO GAY BOY’ SULT
• GAY PASSENGER SCG B DRIVER ABUJA [VIDEO]
• TAXI DRIVER REFED TO TAKE HIM, SHOUTG “NO GAY BOY” AND OTHER HOMOPHOBIC SLURS
• POLICE: TAXI DRIVER KICKED GAY MEN OUT OF R FOR KISSG
• TAXI DRIVER WAS SPEND FOR EJECTG GAY PASSENGER
• TAXI FARE GAY

NYC CABBIE ALLEGEDLY TELLS PASSENGER: ‘I DON'T DRIVE GAYS'

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. 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.

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

It turned out several people at the party — not all of them gay — were secret Homobil ctomers.

BOLT APOLOGIS AFTER TAXI DRIVER LEAV QUEER MAN STRAND WH ‘NO GAY BOY’ SULT

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.

GAY PASSENGER SCG B DRIVER ABUJA [VIDEO]

The later gets, the more Homobil acquir an overall vibe that is one part r service, one part social servic agency. A Homobil ri is the kd where you n be hammered at the end of the night and sgg along to Dty’s Child at the top of your lungs, which happened earlier this eveng. “I did all my partyg years ago, ” says Terry, who started drivg for Homobil six months ago, after she retired om a reer as a bakery supervisor.

TAXI DRIVER REFED TO TAKE HIM, SHOUTG “NO GAY BOY” AND OTHER HOMOPHOBIC SLURS

Mora, who has driven for Homobil longer than anyone else bis s founr, Lynnee Breedlove. ” Mora got rid of her Pri and replaced wh a six-person Suba statn wagon for the good of Homobil — the r is large enough to rry an entourage, and has enough leg room for some very high heels and a roof high enough to acmodate major wigs.

Homobil aren’t the future; what they do is too weird and specific and based on the personali and ials of the people volved to apply to an dtry this large.

Homobil was and remas a seat-of the pants operatn, found by Breedlove, the former owner of a bike-msenger service lled Lickety Spl. In theory, Homobil don’t pick up anyone who hails bs the street; but practice, has cultivated a relatnship wh gay bars across the cy, and s drivers equently appear outsi them around closg time. I’ve e to the ncln that what mak Homobil so unual is the gree to which is able to operate out the open.

POLICE: TAXI DRIVER KICKED GAY MEN OUT OF R FOR KISSG

I also spect that, sce began, Homobil has had alli cy and state ernment who believed what was dog and worked behd the scen to keep om gettg shut down. In those ancient days of four years ago, when Homobil first started, Lyft didn’t even exist ( was still a “te” risharg service lled Zimri), and Uber was still a black-r service; but all that was about to change. Homobil is not a TNC.

TAXI DRIVER WAS SPEND FOR EJECTG GAY PASSENGER

But when the TNC signatn was created by the California Public Utili 2013, the new l ntaed an unexpected shout-out to Homobil.

Homobil was formed to meet the needs of nsumers whose transportatn needs are not beg aquately met by eher taxi bs or limo. We appld the founrs of Homobil for tablishg a non-prof 501(c)(3)volunteer anizatn that ters to the unrserved muni of San Francis.

TAXI FARE GAY

In California, at least, the seemgly ironclad monopoly that taxis have held over private trans the state for s is broken at the moment — which may have a lot to do wh why, right now, Homobil is able to operate openly. I am remd of this when I tag along wh Homobil to pick up Charl.

When he mak to the back seat, Mora troduc him, warmly, as a legend of queer rights history — which I have no doubt of, sce Charl is of an era where to live as openly gay (even the Tenrlo, which was the cy’s gay district before the Castro) was to be, basilly, a crazy badass. If you are wonrg about the strength of Homobil’ pay-what-you-n bs mol one of the most expensive ci the untry, you would be right to wonr.

In the early days of Homobil, the system worked pretty well: More solvent passengers tipped generoly, which ma up the difference for passengers who were more fancially margal. Homobil n’t match Uber and Lyft eher the number of drivers or technologil sophistitn. Would the profsnal gays wh their profsnal dollars take a taxi lled Homobil?