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he was just a lowbrow mug who wouldn’t know how to treat a member of the gentler sex if she smacked him upside the head with a sack full of vaginas.
Turns out, she didn’t have a naturally crooked smile; that was just the look she had when she was busting my chops, which it appeared was most of the time.
Awww <3
In fact, both chop suey and the fortune cookie were invented in San Francisco, not China, to appeal to non-Chinese.
Female drag clubs were popular in North Beach in the 1940s (and into the 1950s, when the city codified hostility toward gay and lesbian clubs). The most famous of the lesbian drag clubs was Mona’s 440, which is portrayed in Ellen Klages’s novel Passing Strange.
