Whether you're gay, straight or anything else, you have the right to ride in a cab, an angry Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday in response to the hack who booted a same-sex couple from his taxi because they were hugging.

"I thought the taxi driver's behavior -- if it is as reported -- was a disgrace," Bloomberg said.

"Somebody's orientation has absolutely nothing to do with whether they can ride a taxi. That kind of attitude doesn't fit with what this city's become," Bloomberg scolded.

Medhat Mohamed kicked Paul Bruno and Bruno's boyfriend out of his yellow cab in the East Village on Monday night after he spotted the duo canoodling in the back seat.

The couple called it discrimination, but the driver claimed he feared they were about to have sex while he was driving.

"I wanted to pay attention to getting them to their destination instead of worrying if they were going to have sex or not," Mohamed said.

He insisted he is not anti-gay.

Bloomberg said the hack should have focused more on the road and less on the back seat.

"I don't know the facts or what the cabdriver said. I'm just telling you that a cabdriver shouldn't worry about the orientation of the people that get in the taxi cab," he said.

"The cabdriver's job is to get them there safely, as expeditiously as possible."

Bloomberg even plugged the taxi industry, saying, "Hopefully, the cabdriver makes a good living because we want more people to become cabdrivers."

But it was unclear whether Mohamed would be behind the wheel for much longer.

Taxi and Limousine Commission agents were investigating, and sources said Mohamed could face charges of refusing service, discourtesy and acting against the best interest of the public.

If convicted, he would face a fine of several hundred dollars on each charge, and the TLC would try to toss his license.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called on the city's Commission on Human Rights to levy charges.

"Its outrageous," she said. "If true, it's a clear violation of city human-rights law."