The men are called "trannie chasers" by some of the girls, and there is a real love-hate relationship between them.Īlana Murtaugh, a 25-year-old transsexual from South Texas, said a lot of the men at Divas tend to objectify the girls, or they simply have a fetish for T-girls, as they are sometimes called. They just like their women to have a little something extra. The owner, Steve Berkey, said the majority of the male patrons consider themselves straight.
"I'd say 85 percent of the men who come here are married, and a lot of them have kids," said bartender Alexis Miranda. It's not as simple as gay or straight, male or female. There are no easy identifiers for the women who go there, nor for the men.
The fourth floor is a more intimate bar setting, with the best-looking bartenders serving drinks, and a few sofas and easy chairs for socializing.īut that's where normalcy, as American society would define it, ends. There's the requisite disco ball hanging from the ceiling. There are topless shows some nights, and the place is like a regular strip club. The third floor has a dance floor and a stripper pole. Televisions are on either end of the bar. Men sit on stools and banter with the bartender. The ground-floor bar, when it's not being used for the lip- synch show, is just another bar. There are three levels open to the public. In some ways, Divas is just like any other bar. "I don't know why people think this place is so scary," said one patron. It is the hangout for post-op transsexuals, pre-ops, cross-dressers, gender-benders, female impersonators and the men who love them. This is Divas, the most famous, or possibly notorious, transgender bar in San Francisco.
Because this is not just any bar in any city.
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