The Murphy Administration’s far-Left cultural crusade isn’t limited to the schools, Save Jerseyans.
On Friday, the Attorney General’s Office announced sanctions against an Asbury Park restaurant – Brando’s Citi Cucina – that allegedly “refused service to the complainant, a non-binary patron, because the restaurant staff believed the patron did not comply with the restaurant’s gender-binary dress code, which barred men from wearing sleeveless shirts while not imposing similar restrictions on women.”
The patron in question filed a complaint with the Division on Civil Rights last year (2023) against the popular Jersey Shore Italian eatery.
“In New Jersey, we refuse to tolerate discrimination against any LGBTQ+ individuals,” said Attorney General Matt Platkin. “Today’s resolution is the result of the hard work we’ve committed to doing so that no one is mistreated in New Jersey because of their gender identity or gender expression.”
Here’s a list of the penalties leveled against Brando’s as a result of a consent order:
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adopt a gender-neutral dress code for customers and employees for all of its New Jersey locations;
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arrange for training on the LAD, on preventing LGBTQ+ discrimination in places of public accommodation, and on Brando’s newly adopted gender-neutral dress code for all owners, managers, patrons, and employees;
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refrain from discriminating against anyone on the basis of gender identity or expression, or other protected characteristics, in violation of the LAD;
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refrain from taking any action or establishing any practice or policy that has a disparate impact on members of a protected class in violation of the LAD;
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refrain from engaging in “retaliatory conduct…or authoriz[ing] any of its employees or agents to engage in any such conduct”;
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pay $5,000 to the complainant; and
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pay a civil penalty of $5,000 to the Division on Civil Rights.
“New Jersey’s civil rights laws make it unlawful to discriminate based on gender identity. Those protections mean that places open to the public, including restaurants, can’t maintain gender-binary dress codes that exclude LGBTQ+ people,” said DCR Director Sundeep Iyer. “As today’s settlement signals, we will continue our work to enforce the robust protections our laws provide against discrimination based on gender identity or expression.”
New Jersey is one of 32 states which outlaw discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” and/or sexual orientation.
