Coffee Shops, AfterEllen, and Leaving Your Trans Boyfriends Outside: An Important Distinction

Last year a good friend of mine was in town during Lesbians Who Tech (she wasn’t there for it that time around, although she is a lesbian and she does work in tech), and we sat in a coffee shop in San Francisco talking about speaker lineups and service animals. This coffee shop, like many coffee shops of its ilk, had a very polite, very cutesy sign abou…