Thank God for the Village People, Kendra thought for the thousandth time, humming "In the Navy" at her desk, doing compliance checks on port services contractors.
Nothing had collapsed more quickly and completely after the Great Change than gay male culture. There were no straight people any more, but straight culture was so entrenched, so interwoven in most people's lives that it couldn't disappear overnight. And there was a certain continuity between straight guys lusting after women and post-Great Change gay girls lusting after women, particularly since they were often the same people.
But without either men or people who lusted after men, there was nothing to support gay male culture. The Great Change had done what homophobia and AIDs couldn't do. Kendra had joined a few internet groups for former gay guys and they all tended to die out after a few months. People were moving on with their new lesbian lives, and that was fine. Kendra herself wouldn't have traded the deepening of her friendship with Nancy into romantic love and marriage for anything. It was sad that the culture gay men had built over centuries of oppression and marginalization had suddenly vanished, but that was the way of the world.
But there were a few things that were just too damn catchy to die, Great Change or no Great Change. Kendra had just switched from In the Navy to YMCA when she got a text from Nancy. "Dad wants to share some girl time with you"--a sentence that would have seemed peculiar before the Great Change.
"OK, great" responded Kendra. She knew Nancy's Dad was involved in some high up government thing, something beyond three letter agency, and figured that was why she was never around. But Kevin had liked Seth, what little he had seen of him, and it would be good for Kendra to spend some time with her father in law, particularly given how highly Nancy thought of her Dad.
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"Can you get some time off work?" Aziza asked Tom over coffee the next morning. "Cause I'm thinking road trip. Always wanted to see the scenic Pacific Northwest."
"You mean?"
"Yes, it's time to fix Jennifer."