Trans Rights Rising: 2 Shows Revisit the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots

AMERICAN THEATRE: Where can you go where it feels safe to sit with relaxed shoulders? When I first moved to Seattle in 2005, it was Bauhaus, a coffee shop on the corner of Melrose & Pine. My first visit was spent upstairs, reading Daniel Clowes’s Ghost World straight through. I left feeling exposed, as if Clowes had read the most private entries from my Livejournal and put them to print. A few months later, a friend and I stood in line to order, eyeing a barista perched on a counter, changing an LP in the record player. My friend turned to me and said, “I’m going to be the mother of his children someday.” By 2007, I was nannying their firstborn.