That’s no way to treat a lady.
Two dozen drag queens say they were tossed out of Rockefeller Center because of their flamboyant outfits.
“They told us we couldn’t take pictures there – in Rockefeller Center. We said there were a lot of other people taking pictures, but they told us we couldn’t,” said one of the cross cross-dressers, who asked to be identified by his show name, Indiana Jones.
Jones and two dozen others who were stopped from spending time in the popular plaza have filed discrimination complaints with the state Division of Human Rights against Rockefeller Center and owner Tishman Speyer.
“They wouldn’t give us a reason for why we couldn’t be there, but we’re pretty sure it’s because of how we were dressed,” Jones said.
The group was allowed to briefly pose by the skating rink after one of the guards noticed the encounter was being taped, Jones said.
A spokeswoman for Rock Center, Suzanne Halpin, pooh-poohed the allegations.
“Rockefeller Center is visited and loved each year by millions of people of all cultures and backgrounds,” she said. “We do not discriminate.”
The group had gotten together on the night of July 20 for its annual Colombian Independence Day celebration and had taken a bus tour of various local landmarks that was supposed to end with a beauty pageant at a Queens nightclub.
Its members went to Rock Center without incident in 2007 but this year found themselves stopped as they paraded into the plaza while being serenaded with whistles.
“I nearly cried,” said hairdresser Cesar Barragan, who was dressed up as alter ego Alison Bibiana.
The incident was first reported by Veronica Onassis of Tras La Verdad, a Spanish-language gay and lesbian newspaper that posted video of the encounter on its Web site and YouTube.