Alexi Mko's bar, the Alibi Lounge, is the first black and gay-owned bs Harlem, for which he has had to make creative and paful choic to keep afloat durg the panmic. To renew his lease, he mt now e up wh $15,000 by the end of the month. Mko’s landlord, Mordy Getz says, "Everyone lov black and whe: good tenant, bad landlord, [but] that’s not how life is." The grandson of Holot survivors, Getz paid for several months of Mko's back rent already and spe havg had a tough year himself, has disunted the rent by 30%. "A landlord don't want to be harsh on his tenants, but he has obligatns terms of the bank, and terms of utili and tax, [and] if those don’t get paid the land’s gog to end up foreclosure." He wants the lounge to succeed bee he wants those who are treated like outsirs to have a space to feel safe. Together, landlord and tenant have created a GoFundMe and a plan for how to get the bs back on track. Read more here.
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- HASIDIC LANDLORD HELPS FIRST BLACK AND GAY-OWNED BS HARLEM WH BACK RENT
- HOW TO DEFE A FAY: GAY TENANT FIGHTS EVICTN
- LANDLORD HARASSED GAY TENANT
- ATTUS OF PROPERTY OWNERS TOWARDS A GAY LSEE JAPAN 2018, BY AGE GROUP
- DOJ FIL LAWSU AGAST WISNS RENTAL PROPERTY, ALLEG DISCRIMATN OF GAY TENANT
HASIDIC LANDLORD HELPS FIRST BLACK AND GAY-OWNED BS HARLEM WH BACK RENT
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HOW TO DEFE A FAY: GAY TENANT FIGHTS EVICTN
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Department of Jtice has filed a lawsu accg a Milwkee property manager of discrimatg agast a gay tenant wh a disabily by makg sexually harassg, homophobic ments and su, filed Friday U. The tenant qutn is a gay man who has bipolar disorr, post-trmatic strs disorr, prsn, and anxiety.
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The gay man, who also disclosed that he was a survivor of sexual asslt and rape, moved to the property April 2019. The tenant moved out July September 2020, the gay man filed a hog discrimatn plat wh the U. Sexual orientatn refers to an dividual’s heterosexualy, homosexualy, or bisexualy.
LANDLORD HARASSED GAY TENANT
Beg told that all tenants habg mt be related by blood or marriage – and that the landlord don’t regnize domtic partnerships or ‘gay marriag. ” “Are you gay? ” or if you are told, “No homosexualy my buildg.
Alexi Mko’s bar, the Alibi Lounge, is the first black and gay-owned bs Harlem, for which he has had to make creative and paful choic to keep afloat durg the panmic.
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ATTUS OF PROPERTY OWNERS TOWARDS A GAY LSEE JAPAN 2018, BY AGE GROUP
Brashi om the Cy of New York, the Cy Bar Associatn, the Legal Aid Society, several relig lears, AIDS-re provirs and many homosexual-rights anizatns. Shortage of HogCy officials say the se is particularly important bee of the cy's hog shortage and the rapidly growg number of people wh AIDS and the AIDS-related to fe a fay is beg an creasgly important issue around the untry as ernments stggle to terme how unrelated people livg together - like gay upl, the handipped, the elrly or group hom of sgle people -f to existg laws and rent-ntrol guil, a landlord may not evict eher the ''survivg spoe of the ceased tenant or some other member of the ceased tenant's fay who has been livg wh the tenant. Blanchard's ''gay life partner'' mak him eligible to rema the apartment.
DOJ FIL LAWSU AGAST WISNS RENTAL PROPERTY, ALLEG DISCRIMATN OF GAY TENANT
's Lbian and Gay Rights Project, asked the urt to protect ''tenants who have ma a rent-ntrolled apartment their fay home. ''For more than 10 years which Brashi and Blanchard lived together, they regard one another, and were regard by iends and fay, as spo, '' the urt papers issue of gay partners and rent ntrol has been tried lower urts recent years, wh varyg rults, but this is the first time has reached the State Court of Appeals. '' A 1984 DecisnOn the qutn of homosexual upl, the Appellate Divisn noted that gay partners ''nnot yet legally marry or enter to legally regnized fay relatnships, '' like adoptn.
The urt also referred to a 1984 cisn by the Court of Appeals, which the judg rejected a gay man's attempt to adopt his that cisn, the Court of Appeals said was up to the Legislature ''as a matter of public policy'' to grant some form of legal stat to a homosexual supporters of Mr.
Brashi the se are lookg to the urt to make a bold statement on gay rights, the se is some ways more an extensn of a Court of Appeals cisn last month overturng a Brookhaven, L. 'No Real Alternative'Homosexuals nnot legally marry, which is why the issue has bee a chief goal of the gay-rights movement.