10/10 - 10/11/2014 : I'm a produced screenwriter and working actor who does very well financially, has an Ivy League education and recently moved from LA to the mountains near Bakersfield. I always tip at least a dollar for each individual drink I buy. I have a very slightly unkempt beard (I don't work a day job, after all) and short hair and was wearing brand new blue jeans, a clean black t-shirt and a just- washed J Crew corduroy sweater when I approached The Casablanca tonight, a bar to which I had never been. I had only 2 beers in me and was far from drunk, though I am a high-functioning, slightly autistic man. Before I attempted to enter, I had watched the two security men outside wave what I believe to be a metal detector wand across two black men as they entered, but they did not do the same to the few white people whom I saw enter. I will leave it at that, except to ask that if the club owners worry about weapons, then why not scan everybody? As I entered, I was stopped by a goateed wannabe tough guy wearing a "security" shirt who, out of the blue and with no provocation from me, said "You can't go in there and go asking for handouts. No panhandling, go!" The first words out of this mean-spirited bully's mouth, just based on presumption alone. I told him, "But I'm rich." Then I showed him my money, bank card and SAG card. He looked nervous, I asked to speak to the manager and he told me to go. I asked his name and he would not give it. I go to gay bars in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills exactly as I was tonight all the time and have never been treated anything remotely this rudely. Real rich people know that real rich people don't wear logos advertising their wealth or necessarily look "rich", but Casablanca hardly seems a bar exclusively tailored to the wealthy, But even if I did look "poor" or somehow "homeless" in the eyes of this narrow-minded, gauche, clueless man who could not see past a slightly unkempt beard or slight body odor?? (I had bathed earlier that day) at a gaudy gay dance club??! Even so, that is no way for any establishment to treat any fellow human, rich or poor. I did tell him off as it was the rudest and most outrageously presumptuous thing any total stranger has ever said to me. I would hope gay people would frequent some other establishment as they should know better than anybody the importance of treating people, especially a harmless eccentric who had done NOTHING, with dignity and respect. Anyway, I would never go back to any business that would hire such a clearly unstable and unhinged person doing their so-called "security". Again, truly, people of the LGBT community should think twice before going to a place that would have such a random assaulter of a total stranger's dignity, no matter what his socioeconomic status, working for them. I was looking for a gay bar in the area and would've gone back again and again if not for this angry and needlessly aggressive jerk. In my case, their crazy, superficial, blindly hateful "security" man just lost Casablanca at least hundreds if not thousands in revenue that I would've spent there.

Hay Jane your mad but hunny have your girls night out somewhere else we don't have boys night out at your bars don't want to be around men? Stay home and stop complaining

we had a girls night out and from my previous experience with Casablanca was always fun, so i recommended it to my straight friends for the girls night out. So we get to the club, were dancing, ordering drinks, and having a good time..until..one of the girls sits at the bar and the bartender (male) begins tapping her on her shoulder and orders her to get out of the chair that someonelse is going to sit there? she tells him that she was jus going to sit down for a little while and that we were going to leave, and rudely he begins to tell her bye bye bye insisting that she leaves now. He did the same thing to our other friend. I feel like he was discriminating against them because they were straight. He seemed to be more respectful to the other gays in the club. The owners did apologize for the way he was acting but we will never ever go back to that club again. If you are straight i recommend you dont go because you will be discriminated against.

Awesome Gay Nightclub in Bakersfield obviously not like fresno and LA but it's still an excellent nightclub

Great music. The club however is pretty..laid back I guess its not like the gay clubs from LA thats fer ser