On The Rise

On The Rise is a bakery in Oakland CA owned by Lucas Arrowood. He originally started there as a part time employee and in no time they were allowing him to try his own recipes. Within another year he owned it and renamed it On the Rise for its implications to the GLBT rights movement. The bakery is very GLBT friendly and often features baked goods that made it clear that his shop is GLBT friendly as well. His customers don’t mind in the least and it has probably been part of his thriving business. His mother, Alice Arrowood, works with him.
It appears in the novella Someday in the anthology A More Perfect Union.