(a) Discrimination in public accommodations. It is unlawful for any owner, proprietor, or lessee of any place of public accommodation, because of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression:
(1) to directly or indirectly exclude, segregate, limit, refuse, or deny to any person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, benefits, privileges, services, or goods offered to the general public at that place; or
(2) to circulate, issue, display, post, mail, or otherwise publish a statement, advertisement, or sign indicating that:
(A) a person will be denied accommodations, advantages, facilities, benefits, privileges, services, or goods at that place; or
(B) the patronage or presence of a person at that place is objectionable, unwelcome, unacceptable, undesirable, or unsolicited.
(b) Defenses. It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the refusal to admit a person to a place of public accommodation or the expulsion of a person from a place of public accommodation was required by law.
(c) Exceptions. This section does not apply to:
(1) a hotel, restaurant, bar, lounge, nightclub, cabaret, theater, bowling alley, skating rink, or golf course when the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and services are restricted to members of a club and their guests; or
(2) any bona fide social, fraternal, educational, civic, political, or religious organization, when the profits of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and services (above reasonable and necessary expenses) are solely for the benefit of the organization. (Ord. Nos. 24927; 29942)