This month I hung out at Sadie’s Flying Elephant, a lesbian bar in Potrero Hill. Michelle Tea invited me to hang out their and listen to LGBT poetry. I would wear a hoody, and hide out in the corner trying to be not any one gender at all.<\/p>\n
One night a very femme woman in jeans and an light pink leather jacket runs into Sadie’s. She sits next to me and is shaking. The butch bartender with a buzz cut and a peculiar habit of clutching her jaw every few seconds asks, “What’ll it be?”<\/p>\n
“Vodka soda, please,” she says in a French accent.<\/p>\n
After she gets served her drink, a skinny man with facial hair and a bowl cut slams open the door. He has a burning cigarette in his hands and blows by some butch lesbians by pushing them aside.<\/p>\n
“Listen here, cunt,” he says in a French accent, “you come back with me now.”<\/p>\n
“No!”<\/p>\n
“You come back or we are threw.”<\/p>\n
One of the lesbians tells him to leave her alone and he says, “Fuck you, bitch.”<\/p>\n
At that point events happened really quickly. He was one the floor saying something about his arm hurting and got thrown out of the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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