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Reaction to Supreme Court ruling in LGBTQ case: ‘Equality is going out the window really quickly with this group’
Crete, Illinois, Library Board member Jackie McKethen listens to a presentation during a May 17, 2023 meeting. - Alexandra Kukulka/Chicago Tribune/TNS

Reaction to Supreme Court ruling in LGBTQ case: ‘Equality is going out the window really quickly with this group’

CHICAGO — In 2004, Jackie McKethen, a transgender woman, walked into a Springfield bar, ordered a drink and struck up a conversation with the man sitting next to her. When she ordered her second drink, McKethen, of Crete, said the bartender told her he couldn't serve her. When she asked why, she said the bartender told her that another man, who had moved to the other end of the bar after she started talking to the man next to her, expressed concern. “He said ‘There’s a gentleman at the other end of the bar that doesn’t want to encourage you to stay,’” McKethen said. McKethen said she and the b...

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