Bobby Rodriguez, 21, had to wipe off his lipstick and take off his fake lashes to comply with the bar's "dress code."

Bobby Rodriguez

All Bobby Rodriguez wanted to do was go out and have fun with his friends. But when the 21-year-old got to the door at the Whiskey River nightclub in Corpus Christi, Texas, Wednesday night, he was told he wouldn't be allowed inside because he was wearing makeup.

Bobby Rodriguez Bobby Rodriguez, wearing the outfit he wore to the Whiskey River nightclub Wednesday.

Describing the incident to BuzzFeed News, Rodriguez said the door attendant looked at his ID, and then at his face, and told him, "Unfortunately we can't let you in because you're a male on your ID and you need to be dressed as a male."

"I'm a dude. I know I’m a dude. I just like to put on makeup," Rodriguez said, adding that he always wears makeup when he goes out. "You will not catch me out and about without makeup." His friends were already inside the bar, Rodriguez said, so he decided to go back to the car to wipe off his lipstick and take off his fake lashes. When he returned without the makeup, he said, the door attendant let him in. Once inside, Rodriguez put up a Facebook post about the encounter.



"This homophobic security guard at the door told me i couldn't come into whiskey's unless I wiped off my makeup because there is a rule," he wrote. He noted that there were "no signs stating that men need to dress like men and so on for women."