Back To The Queer Future #5: Duck The Police

You are rattled awake to find yourself sat on a bus at night. Though when you see people leaning out the side and feel the vehicle struggle up a steep hill you realise it’s actually a San Francisco cable car! You notice quite a few butch-looking women in their finest dapper getup, and what’s more, several are furtively holding hands with their rather femme partners. You’re wondering where they could all be heading when the trolley shudders to a halt and the couples start to file out.

You hop off and follow the queer folk a couple of blocks to the entrance of a bar, the name “Tommy’s" hanging over the door. You slip inside and find the bar is packed full of lesbian couples drinking and dancing. You’ve just introduced yourself to a hot wom...

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Sally

Sally lives in the UK. Her work has been featured in a Korean magazine about queer people and their pets, and a book about haunted prisons. She never intended for any of this to happen.

Sally has written 79 articles for us.