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Finally, magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you’ll excuse me if it hurts personally, maybe a little too personally, that Rowling so casually mocks language that seeks to include me and other trans people. But I’m not shocked. This isn’t the first time that Rowling has expressed views like this. As recently as December of 2019, she was tweeting support for Maya Forstater, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a researcher who lost her job\u003c/a> over “offensive and exclusionary” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1209914794347835392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets in which she repeatedly misgendered a genderfluid person\u003c/a> as “a part-time cross dresser” and stated that “men cannot change into women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dress however you please,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rowling tweeted\u003c/a>, “but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya” This view, that biological sex—simply the way your body is built—makes you immutably one thing or the other and, therefore, trans women aren’t “real” women, is a basic tenet of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs. As trans people and issues have gained more visibility in recent years, so has the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same series of tweets, Rowling \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269407862234775552?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>, “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If. This tiny, two-letter word has stuck in my brain. If. [aside postid='arts_13845330']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that LGBTQ people face \u003ca href=\"http://avp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NCAVP-HV-IPV-2017-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disproportionately high rates\u003c/a> of intimate partner and sexual violence; the Human Rights Campaign has tracked at least 12 violent deaths of a transgender or gender nonconforming individual in 2020 alone. In addition, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality, \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/housing-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 1 in 10 transgender people\u003c/a> have been evicted because of their gender identity. The group’s \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS)\u003c/a> found that in the year prior to completing the survey, 30% of respondents who had a job reported being fired or experiencing some other form of discrimination because of their gender identity or expression. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/housing_discrimination_and_persons_identifying_lgbtq#_State%20and%20Local%20Laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 states and the District of Columbia\u003c/a> have laws that prohibit housing discrimination specifically on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity; in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/north-carolina-transgender-bathrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bathroom bills\u003c/a> that sought to limit access to public restrooms on the basis of sex have been proposed and debated in some states. And in Rowling’s U.K., British newspapers run \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">editorials\u003c/a> warning of the menace of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/a-system-of-gender-self-identification-would-put-women-at-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender ideology\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s less a question of if a trans person has been discriminated against, and more a question of how, especially for black trans people. Living the way that feels authentic and comfortable for any trans or gender-nonconforming person has historically been, and continues to be, dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making room for trans women or nonbinary people doesn’t crowd women out. My gender identity should have no bearing on another person’s. Rowling is right that saying or examining the ways her “life has been shaped by being female” isn’t hateful on its own. What \u003cem>is \u003c/em>hateful and unwelcome, however, is her assertion that “sex is real” and that someone’s gender identity can—and should—be boiled down to their sexual organs. What is hateful is the erasure of trans and nonbinary relationships. What is hateful is the insistence upon acknowledging “the lived reality of women globally” as if it’s a zero-sum game, and all women have the same reality and the same understanding of their womanhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a response\u003c/a> to Rowling’s tweets through the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. In it, he asserts trans women’s womanhood, points to trans-centric educational resources and writes: “To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you. I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you.” [aside postid='arts_13879063']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I valued in these stories was what a lot of fans valued: The depictions of fierce loyalty among friends, the idea that love is stronger (and more mysterious) than any magic, that strength comes not just from inside yourself but from the people beside you, that evil isn’t limited to genocide but also to prejudice and oppression. Voldemort wasn’t the only villain Harry faced; The Ministry of Magic, which upheld and refused to change a system rooted on prejudice, was an enemy too. I valued the idea that a person isn’t defined by the circumstances of their lives—Lupin isn’t just a werewolf to Harry, and Hagrid isn’t just a half-giant, despite how badly others might perceive them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll end with one of my favorite exchanges in the series, which takes place in \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u003c/em>. Harry emerges from his second battle with Voldemort worried over the similarities he seems to share with the evil wizard. Professor Dumbledore tells him: “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” It’s unfortunate what Rowling’s choices have revealed about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mallory Yu is an associate producer for \u003c/em>All Things Considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This past weekend, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling brought a lot of criticism on herself with a series of tweets that many read as transphobic. She seemed to have been set off by an article on access to menstrual hygiene supplies during a global pandemic that referenced “people who menstruate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who menstruate,” she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a> alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-creating-a-more-equal-post-covid-19-world-for-people-who-menstruate-97312#.XtwLnv0aEeR.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to the article\u003c/a>, “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed up \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269389298664701952?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few minutes later\u003c/a>: “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here I am, a person who once revered Rowling, a person who is also in the community that she invalidated with a few careless tweets. I’m nonbinary, meaning that my gender identity doesn’t categorize neatly as man or woman. Trans men also don’t fit into the woman category. We are, quite literally, people who menstruate, and it’s more than a little disappointing that the woman who created a wizarding world that meant everything to me doesn’t care to include me or my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m of the generation that grew up with Harry Potter and his friends. I can chart my adolescence through the series—I was 8 when I read \u003cem>Sorcerer’s Stone\u003c/em>, 17 and a fresh high school graduate when \u003cem>Deathly Hallows \u003c/em>published. My friends and I dressed up to attend midnight release parties at our local bookstores, midnight premieres at the movie theater. At my loneliest, Hogwarts was my refuge. I identified with Harry’s unease in the Muggle world, identified with the idea of needing to wear Muggle clothes in order to blend in, identified with Harry’s relief at finally finding his people. Maybe the reason I don’t fit in anywhere is that I’m a wizard, I’d think at night. Maybe I just haven’t discovered my magic yet, but when I do, I’ll find \u003cem>my\u003c/em> people. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, there was something I hadn’t discovered back then: My queer self. I was unable or unwilling to examine that queer self, the way Muggles either couldn’t or didn’t want to see Diagon Alley, hidden in plain sight. Once I had the language to describe myself, it was as if a new world revealed itself to me. Discovering the queer community and queer culture felt, to me, a lot like Harry felt walking into Diagon Alley for the first time: A riot of color and noise and wonder. Finally, a place I belonged. Finally, magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you’ll excuse me if it hurts personally, maybe a little too personally, that Rowling so casually mocks language that seeks to include me and other trans people. But I’m not shocked. This isn’t the first time that Rowling has expressed views like this. As recently as December of 2019, she was tweeting support for Maya Forstater, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a researcher who lost her job\u003c/a> over “offensive and exclusionary” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1209914794347835392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets in which she repeatedly misgendered a genderfluid person\u003c/a> as “a part-time cross dresser” and stated that “men cannot change into women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dress however you please,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rowling tweeted\u003c/a>, “but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya” This view, that biological sex—simply the way your body is built—makes you immutably one thing or the other and, therefore, trans women aren’t “real” women, is a basic tenet of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs. As trans people and issues have gained more visibility in recent years, so has the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same series of tweets, Rowling \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269407862234775552?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>, “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If. This tiny, two-letter word has stuck in my brain. If. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The last time I visited \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Stud\u003c/a>, San Francisco’s oldest gay bar, the surrealist drag collective Toxic Waste Face performed as an unhinged teen pop group. Jillian Gnarling lip-synced to a baby-voiced ’60s girl-group song in body horror makeup that made half of her face look like it was rotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time before that, partygoers casually drank around a man splayed out on the pool table in white briefs, his mouth held open with a lip retractor while another performer did diabolical dental work on him. The tableau oozed with bloody-looking prop goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had I known these would be my last visits to the Stud, I might have thrown even more dollar bills at the stage. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Stud’s 17-person ownership collective announced yesterday they’d decided to shut the bar down; they are moving out of their South of Market location on May 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city like San Francisco, where LGBTQ+ people are represented in local government and corporate boardrooms alike, the Stud is a home for those who aren’t accepted by the mainstream. Though stars like Sylvester, Etta James and Lady Gaga have graced its glitter-spangled stage over the years, it is best known as a safe haven for the community’s radicals, outsiders and scrappy artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud has been that way since its inception in the ’60s. It was one of San Francisco’s first gay bars that was hospitable to women; it nurtured various countercultures, including hippies and punks, through the decades. The bar has undergone some drastic changes in its 55-year history, but this feels different. Before, people could gather to weather those moments together in person. This time, we are forced to mourn through our computer screens. On May 31, there will be a virtual funeral for the Stud on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/dragalive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitch channel\u003c/a>, with performances by drag celebrities including Jinx Monsoon, Alaska, Heklina, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835007/juanita-more-beloved-drag-mother-is-queering-san-francisco-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juanita MORE!\u003c/a> and Peaches Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880900\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Two drag queens wear inflatable, sparkly costumes an colorful wigs on stage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toxic Waste Face performs at the Stud in 2018. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The shelter-in-place policies—which we fully agree with and support, because science is very real and very cool—we have not been able to draw an income like many bars and many restaurants across the nation,” said Stud co-owner VivvyAnne Forevermore in a press conference. “This has made it impossible to keep up with the bills that we have, even being an empty building. It was not an easy decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deep loss for us,” Forevermore continued, adding that the Stud has been in its current building since 1987. “It has survived the AIDS epidemic. And now it’s the COVID pandemic that’s forcing us to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud collective will continue on with \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/dragalive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual parties\u003c/a> until in-person gatherings are safe again, and there are plans to buy a building and reopen once the pandemic passes. Funding, however, remains a major challenge: a permanent home will likely cost the collective around a million dollars. State Senator Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney pledged to rally support in Sacramento and City Hall at a press conference announcing the closure today, but a concrete plan for reopening is still far off as the Bay Area’s nightlife industry hangs in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float--160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stud’s first Pride float in 1974. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Stud)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The temporary closure of the Stud, and its uncertain future, is another blow for the Bay Area’s queer community, which has seen numerous historic establishments disappear in recent years due to exorbitant rents. Latinx gay bar Esta Noche shuttered due to the cost of doing business in a gentrified Mission District; so did the Lexington, the last lesbian bar in a city once full of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud almost closed in 2016 but was saved by the 17 nightlife professionals who bought it collectively and gave it new life, including activist and drag queen Honey Mahogany and 48 Hills publisher and editor \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/05/the-stud-closes-its-location-in-order-to-save-itself-for-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marke Bieschke\u003c/a>. Prior to COVID-19, it was already operating on razor-thin margins. Remaining open would mean accruing hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt until the threat of the pandemic passed. The owners had to make a tough call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-800x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-800x612.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-768x587.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club kid Adrian Craig and friends at the Stud in 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Stud)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While temporary closures of nightlife venues are absolutely necessary for public health, the lack of safety nets available to them and their workers puts small business owners in impossible financial predicaments. Across the bridge in Oakland, punk bar the Stork Club and underground music venue Spirithaus have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/arts/13880741/oakland-venues-stork-club-spirithaus-shutter-due-to-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decided to shutter\u003c/a> in recent weeks with the hope of reopening in new locations later. It’s understandable, but also tragic to think about how far the Bay Area’s cultural institutions will be eroded when this is over, and how much power will be given over to corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly not done and we are going to keep fighting until we find a new space,” said general manager and co-owner Rachel Ryan. “But this is our time for all of us to mourn that weird, smelly, strange building that so many of us have found a home in.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last time I visited \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Stud\u003c/a>, San Francisco’s oldest gay bar, the surrealist drag collective Toxic Waste Face performed as an unhinged teen pop group. Jillian Gnarling lip-synced to a baby-voiced ’60s girl-group song in body horror makeup that made half of her face look like it was rotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time before that, partygoers casually drank around a man splayed out on the pool table in white briefs, his mouth held open with a lip retractor while another performer did diabolical dental work on him. The tableau oozed with bloody-looking prop goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had I known these would be my last visits to the Stud, I might have thrown even more dollar bills at the stage. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Stud’s 17-person ownership collective announced yesterday they’d decided to shut the bar down; they are moving out of their South of Market location on May 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city like San Francisco, where LGBTQ+ people are represented in local government and corporate boardrooms alike, the Stud is a home for those who aren’t accepted by the mainstream. Though stars like Sylvester, Etta James and Lady Gaga have graced its glitter-spangled stage over the years, it is best known as a safe haven for the community’s radicals, outsiders and scrappy artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud has been that way since its inception in the ’60s. It was one of San Francisco’s first gay bars that was hospitable to women; it nurtured various countercultures, including hippies and punks, through the decades. The bar has undergone some drastic changes in its 55-year history, but this feels different. Before, people could gather to weather those moments together in person. This time, we are forced to mourn through our computer screens. On May 31, there will be a virtual funeral for the Stud on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/dragalive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitch channel\u003c/a>, with performances by drag celebrities including Jinx Monsoon, Alaska, Heklina, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835007/juanita-more-beloved-drag-mother-is-queering-san-francisco-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juanita MORE!\u003c/a> and Peaches Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880900\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Two drag queens wear inflatable, sparkly costumes an colorful wigs on stage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/IMG_4483.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toxic Waste Face performs at the Stud in 2018. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The shelter-in-place policies—which we fully agree with and support, because science is very real and very cool—we have not been able to draw an income like many bars and many restaurants across the nation,” said Stud co-owner VivvyAnne Forevermore in a press conference. “This has made it impossible to keep up with the bills that we have, even being an empty building. It was not an easy decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deep loss for us,” Forevermore continued, adding that the Stud has been in its current building since 1987. “It has survived the AIDS epidemic. And now it’s the COVID pandemic that’s forcing us to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud collective will continue on with \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/dragalive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual parties\u003c/a> until in-person gatherings are safe again, and there are plans to buy a building and reopen once the pandemic passes. Funding, however, remains a major challenge: a permanent home will likely cost the collective around a million dollars. State Senator Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney pledged to rally support in Sacramento and City Hall at a press conference announcing the closure today, but a concrete plan for reopening is still far off as the Bay Area’s nightlife industry hangs in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float--160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stud’s first Pride float in 1974. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Stud)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The temporary closure of the Stud, and its uncertain future, is another blow for the Bay Area’s queer community, which has seen numerous historic establishments disappear in recent years due to exorbitant rents. Latinx gay bar Esta Noche shuttered due to the cost of doing business in a gentrified Mission District; so did the Lexington, the last lesbian bar in a city once full of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud almost closed in 2016 but was saved by the 17 nightlife professionals who bought it collectively and gave it new life, including activist and drag queen Honey Mahogany and 48 Hills publisher and editor \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2020/05/the-stud-closes-its-location-in-order-to-save-itself-for-the-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marke Bieschke\u003c/a>. Prior to COVID-19, it was already operating on razor-thin margins. Remaining open would mean accruing hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt until the threat of the pandemic passed. The owners had to make a tough call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-800x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-800x612.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s-768x587.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Stud-Bar-1980s.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club kid Adrian Craig and friends at the Stud in 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Stud)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While temporary closures of nightlife venues are absolutely necessary for public health, the lack of safety nets available to them and their workers puts small business owners in impossible financial predicaments. Across the bridge in Oakland, punk bar the Stork Club and underground music venue Spirithaus have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/arts/13880741/oakland-venues-stork-club-spirithaus-shutter-due-to-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decided to shutter\u003c/a> in recent weeks with the hope of reopening in new locations later. It’s understandable, but also tragic to think about how far the Bay Area’s cultural institutions will be eroded when this is over, and how much power will be given over to corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly not done and we are going to keep fighting until we find a new space,” said general manager and co-owner Rachel Ryan. “But this is our time for all of us to mourn that weird, smelly, strange building that so many of us have found a home in.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Then I would have to pan a book by a man who played an important role in a children’s program central to my childhood—and, well, I didn’t want to be that guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that it’s quite a good book, full of resonant moments and artistic insights, with only a few overly explanatory passages. Clemmons’ memoir is often disarming in its intimacy and honesty. He vividly recalls his struggle with his homosexuality and his surviving of frequent racism—in some of the book’s most affecting and powerful moments—as well as his noteworthy career ascent in musical performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also lays out why and how he set out to write his memoir in the first place. Of all the writing on Fred Rogers, he notes, none of it was written by a “black, gay, ordained person of the theater” who had spent decades working with arguably the most famous and highly regarded person in children’s programming. “Our relationship,” Clemmons writes, “was sustained, intense, and elbow-to-elbow. For me, you [Rogers] fulfilled the role of mentor, fan, and surrogate father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clemmons was born in the rural South and, as a boy, moved with his family to Youngstown, Ohio. From childhood to adolescence, pain, racism, and homophobia were regular obstacles in Clemmons’ life. Yet the imagination and dedication to art he cultivated early in his life set him on a path forward. He steadily made progress toward his musical goals by leaving, for him, the stifling grimness of Youngstown and opening a new chapter of his life at the highly regarded conservatory at Oberlin College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he met Fred Rogers, while pursuing graduate studies in music at Carnegie Mellon and singing at Third Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. He writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“My clearest memory of that occasion was of Fred Rogers’s sincerity and the deep look, bordering on passion, in his gentle blue eyes. He nailed me when he took my hand, turned his head slightly, and paused, as though he was waiting for me to say something. I waited too, because it was he who had come over to talk to me. He took his time and spoke of my lovely voice, my compelling interpretations, and the genuine effect the songs had had on him during the service. I smiled and returned his warmth and sincerity. It was easy to accept his praise. There was something serious yet comforting and disarming about him. His eyes hugged me without touching me.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Even though Rogers had an undeniably unique way of distilling complex emotions into humanistic balm, his relationship with Clemmons couldn’t help but be a little complicated. Clemmons, for instance, expressed reservations about performing in the role of a police officer, given the levels of historical distrust African Americans have rightly felt for many in law enforcement. Clemmons also recounts a time Rogers, out of concern for the public viability of his show and Clemmons’ career during a time prior to broader LGTBQ acceptance, encouraged Clemmons to consider staying in the closet and maybe even marrying a woman. He writes that Rogers told him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I want you to know Franç, that if you’re gay, it doesn’t matter to me at all. Whatever you say and do is fine with me, but if you’re going to be on the show as an important member of \u003cem>The Neighborhood\u003c/em>, you can’t be out as gay…I wish it were different, but you can’t have it both ways. Not now anyway. Talent can give you so much in this life, but that sexuality thing can take it all away.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It’s a complicated situation, but it’s even more distressing and tragic to consider it from Clemmons’ perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even after he moved to New York City in pursuit of opera, Clemmons still flew back to Pittsburgh to film episodes of the show, owing to a feeling of dedication to Fred Rogers and his mission. He shared Rogers’ seriousness of purpose, his commitment to producing something meaningful for the personal and spiritual enrichment of others. And his trust in Rogers’ mentorship grew slowly over time. “I found it hard to believe,” he writes, “that a white man would make that kind of deep commitment to a black man like myself. It was like a lifetime commitment to me… Mentorship was for life in my humble opinion, and that was Fred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUCowuKS40\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To so many, Dr. François S. Clemmons was Officer Clemmons from \u003cem>Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood\u003c/em>—a place where make-believe was about building self-knowledge through love, patience, and the embrace of every person’s uniquely vulnerable humanity. But the show wasn’t Clemmons’ story—this memoir is. In the book, he doesn’t ask you to be his neighbor, but rather just to hear his story: One of a man of profound strength and talent who stood up, sang out, and, after great struggle, was heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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She describes her new book as a “memoir of masculinity, kind of told the way an expatriate might speak of the country of their birth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boylan acknowledges that some in the trans community might take issue with the notion that she had a “boyhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people who feel that they always were who they are, and to refer to an earlier part of your life differently is really disrespectful,” she says. “But even though I respect that view, for me, … I had this experience and it’s an experience that I now struggle to connect to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boylan writes that when she was living as a boy, and then as a man, there were times when she found it impossible to express the thing that was in her heart. But she never had to hide what she felt for dogs. 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Who’s a good boy?” And I remember being very jealous in some ways of that dog, because my father could love this horrible dog without condition, whereas for me, it was harder, because I didn’t know who was a good boy, but I knew it wasn’t me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879066\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-2.08.50-AM.png\" alt=\"‘Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs,’ by Jennifer Finney Boylan.\" width=\"300\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-2.08.50-AM.png 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-2.08.50-AM-160x243.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs,’ by Jennifer Finney Boylan.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why she didn’t come out as trans or take hormones until she was in her 40s \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those days, coming out as transgender was unknown territory, at least it was for me. I barely even had a word for the thing that I felt. And as much as I knew I wanted to live my true life, I also felt that if I lived that life, it would almost surely lead to a life of marginality, of violence. I just thought, I might well be killed, that there was no place in the world in which I could live. There is no place in the world for me to be. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I’d gone to a doctor and been given the chance to take the medication that I needed, I probably still would have been very reluctant to do it because I was just too afraid. And I thought that I would be wrecking the rest of my life, that I would never be loved by anyone except for maybe my dog. I thought that I would never have a family, I would never have a job. It seemed like my best life might well cost me my life. I just soldiered on, hoping that it would all get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the process of coming out to her wife \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not exactly one day. It was less of a decision than, like, an erosion, maybe. … But I remember there was one day when a barrier came down at a railroad crossing and it was snowing. It was probably January of 2000. So it was the new millennium. I remember that it felt like we were in a new era. And I just watched the cars of the freight train going by and started kind of daydreaming and thinking that question: How long are you going to wait before you leave your actual life? Eventually, the barrier went up, the train disappeared down the tracks, but I was just sitting there in my car in this kind of daze until cars behind me started honking and wondering what was wrong with me. So that was the day I came home and I said to my wife, “I think I’m gonna get back into therapy.” We talked a little bit about the gender question before that moment, but that was the moment that I thought, I cannot keep living a life in which I’m not really myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her wife’s reaction \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a social worker, so her first reaction was, “Good! Therapy’s a good thing.” She wanted me to be happy, but she also felt, once it became clear that transition was coming right ahead, that she had a dilemma where she had to think: I have to help the person that I love most in the world at this moment of their crisis. But in so doing, I might lose the person that I love. It’s kind of an unsolvable dilemma. And, yet, here we are still together, after 32 years of marriage—12 as husband and wife, and 20 as wife and wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the process of figuring out what kind of woman she is as she transitioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was essentially going through a second adolescence at age 40. And a lot of the kind of trial-and-error things that girls go through and women go through when they’re 5 and 10 and 15 were things that I was having to figure out. And even now, there are some things that I’m still trying to figure out. Like doing a French braid. I’m 61. I’m beginning to think that that ship has sailed. I’m probably never going to learn how to do that now. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to live in this culture means that you’re constantly being influenced by what the culture wants you to be, and if you’re a woman, it means you’re supposed to be thin. You’re supposed to care about how pretty you are. You’re supposed to care about a lot of things that maybe you shouldn’t care about as much as the culture says you ought. … There’s a way in which I felt: If I want to fit in, if I want to pass in the world, then this is all the junk that I have to do. And it took me a while before I realized, actually, no, you can fight against that stuff. You’ve gone to all this trouble to become female. 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"content": "\u003cp>The signs have been there for a while. For months now, Michael Che—one half of \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em>‘s “Weekend Update” team and one of the show’s head writers—has been increasingly punching down in his comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started slowly. He was a super-likable presence during his brief stint on \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em> in 2014, and a welcome addition to the on-screen talent of \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> that same year, after working behind the scenes as a writer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrp_pWajmA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6209400/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Michael Che Matters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the comedian had started to walk a fine line that wasn’t quite as successful. In that Netflix special, brilliant material about Black Lives Matter, religion and gentrification rubbed uncomfortably up against jokes making light of street harassment and homelessness, and criticizing the sexual practices of both straight women and gay men. For the most part, though, Che was careful when stepping into offensive territory to first openly acknowledge that he was doing so, and second, to make a larger point in order to justify it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one particularly infamous bit, the comic used a transgender slur. “I just recently stopped using the word ‘tranny’ because a trans friend of mine told me how much it hurts,” he said. “I was like ‘What? How the f–k is ‘tranny’ hurtful? I just added a Y!’ … She was like ‘How would you like it if I called you ‘blacky’? Well played, tranny. Well played…” Is it difficult to hear Che use this language? Of course. But at least he did so in the course of drawing connections between marginalized groups, and trying to help one understand the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, however, Che has descended straight into territory that punches down just for the hell of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October “Weekend Update” segment, Che plunged headfirst into transphobic misgendering, for no valid reason at all. While attempting to make a joke about Kanye West’s music going “G-rated,” he said: “At first, I thought Kanye was losing his mind, and now I feel like he’s … just turning into an old white lady … It’s like, how long before this guy changes his name to Kathy? … Now, you might think I’m crazy, but about five years ago there was a fella named Bruce Jenner…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMdn2Ao7-88\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, he made sexist and ageist comments on the show after a 67-year-old woman gave birth in China. Che prompted a mix of laughter and groans when he said: “She can breastfeed just by standing over the crib,” and “doctors described the birth as pulling a penny out of a wad of gum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw0l6e1iOsU&feature=emb_logo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more troubling than his recent descent into unfunny is Che’s penchant for using his social media to call out specific individuals who happen to not share his views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://theoutline.com/post/8583/michael-che-feud-snl-jack-allison?utm_source=TW&zr=mi2arnha&zd=1&zi=mpawsoe6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Outline\u003c/em> published a story\u003c/a> by ex-\u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> writer Jack Allison that detailed bullying behavior by Che. After Allison took to Twitter to criticize a (definitely shady) practice used by \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> to acquire jokes, Che called out Allison directly on Instagram, listing his Twitter handle and using specific insults about Allison’s appearance and social life. (“he’s one of those bearded white guys with glasses that hates snl, but talks a lot about snl.. not much about his personal life on there, but i’m sure its awesome.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the article, Allison describes in detail how Che repeatedly reignited their squabble online, criticizing Allison’s career (“continue to submit your packet to shows that don’t know/like you! lol i heard thingssssss!”) and personality, and even attempting to paint him as a disingenuous drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1210296178996203520\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allison notes: “Sometimes weeks or whole months would go by with nothing, before all of a sudden, I made another appearance on [Che’s] Instagram Story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same \u003cem>Outline\u003c/em> article, an Uproxx critic named Steven Hyden describes coming under similar fire after writing \u003ca href=\"https://uproxx.com/tv/colin-jost-hate-saturday-night-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article\u003c/a> about Che’s “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost that described him as “the epitome of white-male mediocrity.” Hyden explained that Che “decided to mock me on his Instagram. He called me a ‘mediocre ass white dude’ and then said I like to ‘suck off rescue dogs.’ … Also, someone—can’t say it was Che, though it happened immediately after he went into his tirade against me—went into my Wikipedia page and changed it to reflect my supposed preference for having sex with canines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, when \u003cem>Daily Beast\u003c/em> writer Samantha Allen wrote an article about \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-ricky-gervais-and-other-comics-your-caitlyn-jenner-jokes-are-getting-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transphobia in comedy\u003c/a>, Che—who wasn’t even mentioned in the piece—responded by pointing his 440,000 Instagram followers squarely in her direction. 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