SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—A Scottsdale bar owner named in a discrimination lawsuit has refused to be interviewed voluntarily under oath by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
“If the Attorney General’s Office wants to talk to me, they need to serve a subpoena,” said Tom Anderson, owner of Anderson’s Fifth Estate Night Club.
Last year, Anderson asked Michele deLaFreniere and some other patrons to leave the nightclub because they “freaked out” women customers by using the women’s rest rooms.
When the transgender patrons tried to use the men’s room, they complained that male patrons harassed them.
DeLaFreniere said it was a matter of discrimination and filed the complaint. Anderson has launched a legal defense fund to fight the charges.