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And just this last April, he had two books out — mine, and he was the largest contributor to another book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05346/facts.san_francisco_portrait_of_a_city.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco: Portrait of a City\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fetterman said he had not encountered Lyon’s work before seeing an image called “Foggy Night, Land’s End.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I knew a lot about photographers and the history of photography,” Fetterman said. When he came across “Foggy Night,” he said, “I was totally blown away by it. I thought, ‘Why haven’t I heard of this man? Who is this man? This man is a giant — anyone who could make that kind of composition, I have to know more about him.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white night-time image with man, woman and car silhouetted in fog. \" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-1020x1019.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Foggy NIght, Land’s End,’ a 1953 image shot by San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon/Peter Fetterman Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]yon told KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/patyollin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Yollin\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 profile\u003c/a> that he became fascinated with photography early in his teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cameras were shiny objects,” he said. “I knew a guy who had one and he always seemed to have a lot of cute girls around him. I thought that if I had a camera, maybe I’d get girls, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon skipped two grades, graduated from Burlingame High School, apprenticed at a San Francisco photography studio at age 14 and then, a year later, attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams was a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2020 interview with “California Look” collaborator Philip Meza, Lyon recalled how he joined Adams and a select handful of other students on a summer trip to Adams’ home in Yosemite. He said he took from Adams certain artistic tenets, such as Adams’ famous admonition, “There’s nothing worse than a very sharp image of a very fuzzy concept.” But even then, Lyon said, he knew he needed to become his own photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling was that I could never learn all Ansel knew,” Lyon said. “I could never be more than a miniature Ansel Adams if I tried to be like him. I was never going to become a landscape photographer. I always seem to need to include some of the works of man in my work. Ansel was terrific and inspirational, but I didn’t want to emulate what he was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon was a Navy photographer during World War II, an assignment that took him to the White House, where he took a Christmas portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his extended family in 1944. He photographed President Harry S. Truman on his first day in the Oval Office following Roosevelt’s death in April 1945.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Lyon shot fashion assignments in New York City before returning to the Bay Area in 1946, where his family’s thriving real estate business awaited him. But he had other ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Photography wasn’t really an honorable profession,” Lyon told KQED in 2017. “It wasn’t a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, ‘Oh Frederick, that’s no work for a man.’ But it’s the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll through his career, Lyon was very busy getting those glimpses into the lives of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at his work logs — he logged in every shoot he did from maybe 1940 on,” Rozis, who married Lyon 20 years ago, said Saturday. “There were all kinds of interesting people, from sports to fashion to architecture to films. It’s just amazing. He said, ‘When I look at these job logs, it makes me tired.’ Every day there were two or more shoots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza says that Lyon set out to become a working photographer, a mission at which he was fabulously successful, but did not consider himself an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nevertheless, he did become one,” Meza said, the proof being the enduring attraction of the images he captured. “If it is a generation or more removed from the viewer, like some of Fred’s fine art photography, it retains these powers and is not just a curiosity because it is antique. I think his artistic sense was derived from his abundant empathy, curiosity and intelligence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-800x804.png\" alt=\"Two children sliding on cardboard down a steep street in San Francisco in 1952.\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-800x804.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-1020x1026.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-160x161.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM-1528x1536.png 1528w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-1.43.49-PM.png 1846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children street-sledding down steep hill, North Beach, San Francisco, 1952. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fetterman says that, beyond the quality of his work, Lyon stood out as someone who embraced life and other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a joyous character,” Fetterman said. “He was like Cary Grant. He was from another era of charm and manners and gracefulness — all of it genuine.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fred Lyon, photographer\"]‘I see pictures I would like to take. I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can’t believe it.’[/pullquote]Lyon’s personality — his dedication to craft, sense of wonder and joie de vivre — shine through in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED’s 2017 profile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story noted that Lyon, “reduced to a shuffle” and accompanied by his wife “to keep me from being hit by motorists,” was still venturing out to shoot the city where he was born back in 1924. “I want to be wherever the composition is right, and it’s usually in the middle of traffic. I love the 500 Club (at Guerrero and 17th streets, in the Mission) because it has the cocktail glass and the neon sign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lyon made clear in the story that he bore a deep affection for both the old San Francisco and the city it has become:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Lyon has had neither the time nor inclination to embrace nostalgia, but there are things he misses about the old San Francisco: He used to swim at Sutro Baths. Kids played in the streets. People didn’t hurry and weren’t on ‘their damn iPhones all the time.’ There wasn’t much traffic or all those ‘killer buses.’ San Franciscans didn’t dress like they were camping, and didn’t wear baseball caps backward in good restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Now that I’m officially an antique, I can say that I’m old-fashioned,’ Lyon said. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” … But Lyon loves San Francisco in its current incarnation, especially certain things: The profusion of Thai restaurants. Bicycles everywhere. Fantastic fruits and vegetables. All the watercraft on the bay. A revitalized North Beach. The Lands End Lookout. And a lot more sidewalk trees, which ‘cover up some execrable architecture.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 2017 piece had a sequel. It featured photographs from a just-published book of Lyon’s work, “\u003ca href=\"https://papress.com/products/san-francisco-noir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Noir\u003c/a>.” The piece included several images from the book, including an undated black-and-white image of a series of gabled houses with a hill full of more houses rising into the haze beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where "Houses on the Hills" is located.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-1180x917.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-960x746.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-375x292.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-520x404.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Lyon took so many pictures that he didn’t always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out where ‘Houses on the Hills’ was shot. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The caption said: “Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn’t always remember when or where they were shot. He and his wife have spent hours driving around San Francisco trying to figure out the neighborhood where ‘Houses on the Hills’ is located.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mystery of that photo’s location spawned a KQED social media challenge — to help find the spot where “Houses on the Hill” was shot. Two of our readers figured it out, and Yollin and Lyon visited the site with them. The result was another story, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11632348/crowdsourcing-a-vanished-view-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mystery Solved: Crowdsourcing a Vanished View of San Francisco\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you how amazing I think it is that you identified this,” Lyon told the two readers, Robert Aranda Jr. and Eric Chesmar, who correctly identified the picture’s Noe Valley location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Rozis, Lyon is survived by two sons, Michael and Gordon, from his first marriage, to the late Anne Murray Lyon, who died in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he approached his mid-90s, Lyon told Yollin, he felt there was still more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see pictures I would like to take,” he said. “I need another lifetime to photograph San Francisco. But my life has been so much fun I can’t believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“And then at the age of 80, he starts a career as a fine art photographer,” Meza said, referring to a career that was active right up until Lyon’s passing. “He died working on two book projects. And just this last April, he had two books out — mine, and he was the largest contributor to another book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05346/facts.san_francisco_portrait_of_a_city.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco: Portrait of a City\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fetterman said he had not encountered Lyon’s work before seeing an image called “Foggy Night, Land’s End.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I knew a lot about photographers and the history of photography,” Fetterman said. When he came across “Foggy Night,” he said, “I was totally blown away by it. I thought, ‘Why haven’t I heard of this man? Who is this man? This man is a giant — anyone who could make that kind of composition, I have to know more about him.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white night-time image with man, woman and car silhouetted in fog. \" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-1020x1019.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/FNLE-Lyon.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Foggy NIght, Land’s End,’ a 1953 image shot by San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon. \u003ccite>(Fred Lyon/Peter Fetterman Gallery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>yon told KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/patyollin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Yollin\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11629475/photographer-fred-lyon-is-93-and-still-in-love-with-san-francisco?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 profile\u003c/a> that he became fascinated with photography early in his teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cameras were shiny objects,” he said. “I knew a guy who had one and he always seemed to have a lot of cute girls around him. I thought that if I had a camera, maybe I’d get girls, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon skipped two grades, graduated from Burlingame High School, apprenticed at a San Francisco photography studio at age 14 and then, a year later, attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where Ansel Adams was a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2020 interview with “California Look” collaborator Philip Meza, Lyon recalled how he joined Adams and a select handful of other students on a summer trip to Adams’ home in Yosemite. He said he took from Adams certain artistic tenets, such as Adams’ famous admonition, “There’s nothing worse than a very sharp image of a very fuzzy concept.” But even then, Lyon said, he knew he needed to become his own photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling was that I could never learn all Ansel knew,” Lyon said. “I could never be more than a miniature Ansel Adams if I tried to be like him. I was never going to become a landscape photographer. I always seem to need to include some of the works of man in my work. Ansel was terrific and inspirational, but I didn’t want to emulate what he was doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon was a Navy photographer during World War II, an assignment that took him to the White House, where he took a Christmas portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his extended family in 1944. He photographed President Harry S. Truman on his first day in the Oval Office following Roosevelt’s death in April 1945.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Lyon shot fashion assignments in New York City before returning to the Bay Area in 1946, where his family’s thriving real estate business awaited him. But he had other ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Photography wasn’t really an honorable profession,” Lyon told KQED in 2017. “It wasn’t a profession at all. When our family physician found out what I was doing, he said, ‘Oh Frederick, that’s no work for a man.’ But it’s the ideal pursuit for an inherently nosy person. You get to peek into everyone else’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ll through his career, Lyon was very busy getting those glimpses into the lives of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked at his work logs — he logged in every shoot he did from maybe 1940 on,” Rozis, who married Lyon 20 years ago, said Saturday. “There were all kinds of interesting people, from sports to fashion to architecture to films. It’s just amazing. He said, ‘When I look at these job logs, it makes me tired.’ Every day there were two or more shoots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza says that Lyon set out to become a working photographer, a mission at which he was fabulously successful, but did not consider himself an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nevertheless, he did become one,” Meza said, the proof being the enduring attraction of the images he captured. “If it is a generation or more removed from the viewer, like some of Fred’s fine art photography, it retains these powers and is not just a curiosity because it is antique. 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Fantastic fruits and vegetables. All the watercraft on the bay. A revitalized North Beach. The Lands End Lookout. And a lot more sidewalk trees, which ‘cover up some execrable architecture.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he 2017 piece had a sequel. It featured photographs from a just-published book of Lyon’s work, “\u003ca href=\"https://papress.com/products/san-francisco-noir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Noir\u003c/a>.” The piece included several images from the book, including an undated black-and-white image of a series of gabled houses with a hill full of more houses rising into the haze beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27942_houses-on-hill-qut-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Lyon has taken so many pictures that he doesn't always remember when or where they were shot. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are big changes ahead for San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live music promoters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Another Planet Entertainment have announced plans to renovate the venue\u003c/a>, part of which includes removing many of the theater’s iconic red velvet chairs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Read more about this complex saga from KQED Arts & Culture.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what the future holds, it’s the end of an era for the beloved Castro Theatre. So we wanted to create a space to highlight some of your memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked you: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall#castrotheatre\">What was your most memorable experience at the Castro?\u003c/a> From first dates and childhood memories to unforgettable movies and an overwhelming sense of community, you delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for some of the stories you sent us. And if you didn't get the chance to share your own memories and you want to do so, you can still \u003ca href=\"#castrotheatre\">send us your thoughts on the Castro Theatre here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These submissions have been lightly edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worked at the Castro from 1983-1986. Most memorable experience? \u003cstrong>Getting married on the mezzanine level in August 1986.\u003c/strong> Being broke, I approached my manager about getting married in the theater. He agreed as long as we were done before the Saturday matinee. — \u003cem>Linda Absher\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=arts_13917362 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Castro.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hayao Miyazaki’s \"Spirited Away\" at the Castro was the most amazing movie experience of my life.\u003c/strong> The energy was incredible, and I remember how Japanese speakers were laughing before people reading the subtitles caught up. A representative of Studio Ghibli was there, I think it was \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Suzuki_(producer)\">[Toshio] Suzuki\u003c/a>, and I hope he went back and told Miyazaki how much the audience loved his film. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Fantasia,\" 1979. The organist played first, then the movie started, and my date brought out a joint!\u003c/strong> I had never tried marijuana before — I am sure that this \"altered\" my movie experience! — \u003cem>Anonymous \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of red velvet seats in a dimmed theater.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've spent so many nights at the Castro over the decades, but one of the most memorable was a screening of \"Milk.\" Cleve Jones was there along with others from the production and those who informed it. Those of us who remembered Harvey Milk were in the audience wondering whether the Sean Penn portrayal would fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the film, there was a scene showing the candlelight march after the assassination moving down Market St. from the Castro.\u003cstrong> Everyone in the theater was in tears. Including myself.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A room full of strangers together in that space, feeling the same emotions. The Castro Theatre was the center of our experience. \u003cstrong>It was a moment for our community and in our lives that I will never forget.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Fred Bove\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \"Blade Runner\" director's cut [1992] came out, I went alone to see it at the Castro. Rain was just starting when I went into the red-and-gold, well-loved, slightly shabby Art Deco interior. I'd seen the original release and a couple of video versions; this cut's subtle changes made it that much more enthralling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My head full of neon and rain, and the Bradbury building where Roy and Pris met their ends, I walked out of the theater to find the sky opened and pouring, light and reflections everywhere, water coursing down my trench coat as I walked up Castro Street. \u003cstrong>My favorite moment of immersive cinema ever.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Alana Dill\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The frontage of the Castro Theatre, shot from a low angle below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and '80s it was wondrous to sit in the Castro Theatre, enjoy the Art Deco artistry and listen to the organ player before the retro movies began. \u003cstrong>Most of all we relished the feeling of what it must have been like in gone-by eras. \u003c/strong>Seeing the stage intact below the screen, even though the stage was no longer used, allowed me to imagine what a burlesque hall must have felt like, and how audiences during the early days of film must have felt, experiencing the transition from burlesque to film entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our current era we are transitioning yet again, but if we were to radically change the Castro Theatre we would never be able to truly preserve the full legacy of showbiz and we couldn’t physically relive its former eras. \u003cstrong>If the theater can’t be profitable, let’s establish a fund to subsidize it as we would any important museum or archive.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Marti Schoen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. \u003cstrong>I don't remember which movie it was but I had sex in the balcony once, which I feel quite proud of now!\u003c/strong> Favorite movie experience was probably \"Wuthering Heights.\" And of course many rounds of Frameline. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proscenium of the Castro Theatre, shot from below. The lighting is purple and gold.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proscenium of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid growing up in the Castro (born in 1944) my wife spent Saturday in the theater. Twenty cents to get in, a nickel for candy and two movies, newsreel, serial, cartoons. \u003cstrong>A day’s worth of entertainment. Family nights in the balcony. Lots of memories, all good.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Rose Shuck \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlight: \"Nights of Cabiria,\" the great Fellini movie, with a beautiful print, maybe eight years ago. \u003cstrong>The whole, packed-house audience almost held its breath at the ending.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community moments: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. The first \"BAHFest\" (Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) in a science festival. Realizing in an \"aha!\" moment that the Jewish Film Festival was where I would run into \u003cem>all\u003c/em> my Jewish acquaintances and friends if I attended enough shows. — \u003cem>David Grosof\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watching \"Miracle on 34th Street\" with a sold-out crowd of movie lovers.\u003c/strong> The way everyone booed the evil company psychiatrist, then the place erupted in cheers when the bags of letters to Santa were poured out on the judge’s desk!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been to rock concerts and weddings and whatever else they are thinking this absolutely historic movie theater will be used for, and \u003cstrong>I have never experienced a thrill like it or a greater sense of shared joy.\u003c/strong> This place is the heart of a great community and if they tear it up it will be a travesty. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees pick up free sodas and popcorn before the town hall to discuss planned renovations at the theater on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first feature film I produced premiered at the Castro as part of the Frameline Film Festival. \u003cstrong>I will never forget my excitement as I watched the historic venue fill up with strangers coming to see my movie.\u003c/strong> My heart fills with joy thinking about it. — \u003cem>Ashley Hillis \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 1992 and I had just begun a fiery relationship with a woman living in Oakland, while I was living in Berkeley. We met at the Castro Muni station and went to the theater to see the animated film version of \"Fritz the Cat,\" based on R. Crumb's comic strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It was my first time to the Castro Theatre and its breathtaking grandeur was matched by my ecstatic joy from having just fallen in love.\u003c/strong> Frankly, I remember almost nothing from the movie, but the way the theater was so romantic and such a conducive environment for us cuddling in our bliss is indelibly etched on my mind. That romance didn't last the summer, but even 30 years later I remember the magnificence of the Castro Theatre like it was yesterday. — \u003cem>Gifford Hartman \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years back, there was a minister in Oakland that announced the end of the world was on a certain upcoming date. 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The organist played first, then the movie started, and my date brought out a joint!\u003c/strong> I had never tried marijuana before — I am sure that this \"altered\" my movie experience! — \u003cem>Anonymous \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of red velvet seats in a dimmed theater.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've spent so many nights at the Castro over the decades, but one of the most memorable was a screening of \"Milk.\" Cleve Jones was there along with others from the production and those who informed it. Those of us who remembered Harvey Milk were in the audience wondering whether the Sean Penn portrayal would fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the film, there was a scene showing the candlelight march after the assassination moving down Market St. from the Castro.\u003cstrong> Everyone in the theater was in tears. Including myself.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A room full of strangers together in that space, feeling the same emotions. The Castro Theatre was the center of our experience. \u003cstrong>It was a moment for our community and in our lives that I will never forget.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Fred Bove\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \"Blade Runner\" director's cut [1992] came out, I went alone to see it at the Castro. Rain was just starting when I went into the red-and-gold, well-loved, slightly shabby Art Deco interior. I'd seen the original release and a couple of video versions; this cut's subtle changes made it that much more enthralling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My head full of neon and rain, and the Bradbury building where Roy and Pris met their ends, I walked out of the theater to find the sky opened and pouring, light and reflections everywhere, water coursing down my trench coat as I walked up Castro Street. \u003cstrong>My favorite moment of immersive cinema ever.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Alana Dill\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The frontage of the Castro Theatre, shot from a low angle below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and '80s it was wondrous to sit in the Castro Theatre, enjoy the Art Deco artistry and listen to the organ player before the retro movies began. \u003cstrong>Most of all we relished the feeling of what it must have been like in gone-by eras. \u003c/strong>Seeing the stage intact below the screen, even though the stage was no longer used, allowed me to imagine what a burlesque hall must have felt like, and how audiences during the early days of film must have felt, experiencing the transition from burlesque to film entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our current era we are transitioning yet again, but if we were to radically change the Castro Theatre we would never be able to truly preserve the full legacy of showbiz and we couldn’t physically relive its former eras. \u003cstrong>If the theater can’t be profitable, let’s establish a fund to subsidize it as we would any important museum or archive.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Marti Schoen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. \u003cstrong>I don't remember which movie it was but I had sex in the balcony once, which I feel quite proud of now!\u003c/strong> Favorite movie experience was probably \"Wuthering Heights.\" And of course many rounds of Frameline. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proscenium of the Castro Theatre, shot from below. The lighting is purple and gold.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proscenium of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid growing up in the Castro (born in 1944) my wife spent Saturday in the theater. Twenty cents to get in, a nickel for candy and two movies, newsreel, serial, cartoons. \u003cstrong>A day’s worth of entertainment. Family nights in the balcony. Lots of memories, all good.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Rose Shuck \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlight: \"Nights of Cabiria,\" the great Fellini movie, with a beautiful print, maybe eight years ago. \u003cstrong>The whole, packed-house audience almost held its breath at the ending.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community moments: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. The first \"BAHFest\" (Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) in a science festival. Realizing in an \"aha!\" moment that the Jewish Film Festival was where I would run into \u003cem>all\u003c/em> my Jewish acquaintances and friends if I attended enough shows. — \u003cem>David Grosof\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> teamed up with LAist Studios to share an episode from the new season of their podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1604648881\">Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary\u003c/a>.” It’s the story of Oscar Gomez, a radio DJ and Chicano student leader during a time of explosive anti-immigrant political rhetoric in the early 1990s. Some people thought Gomez was going to be the next Cesar Chavez. But then he died near the UC Santa Barbara campus, under mysterious circumstances. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KPCC reporter \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/people/adolfo-guzman-lopez\">Adolfo Guzman-Lopez\u003c/a> first started digging into Gomez’s life and death back in 2019, when UC Davis awarded Gomez a posthumous degree. The new podcast investigates Gomez’s death and delves into his legacy — and reporting it prompted Guzman-Lopez to examine his own life, activism and journalism. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n September of 2021, I and a team of producers set out to find answers to the mysterious death of a 1990s Chicano college activist and college radio DJ. Over the next 10 months, as we interviewed people and looked for documents, I came to the realization that three-decade-old activism fundamentally shaped my three-decade-long journalism career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s certainly not what I expected to find when I first introduced our audience to Oscar Gomez in 2019. Oscar was a scholar-athlete at Baldwin Park High School who graduated in the spring of 1990, then enrolled at UC Davis that fall. In that same year California was entering a red-hot political climate driven by a backlash against increased immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 17, 1994, four years after Oscar’s freshman year, he was found dead on a Santa Barbara beach, apparently after a fall from a bluff near the UC Santa Barbara campus. My story \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/25-years-after-his-tragic-death-oscar-gomez-gets-his-college-degree\">detailed how he was awarded a posthumous degree\u003c/a> by UC Davis 25 years after his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, UCSB\"]‘I don’t think we’re at where we’re at today without these sacrifices and activism of the folks in the ’90s.’[/pullquote]I could have left the story there. I could have moved on. And I was about to move on. But the people I interviewed, Oscar’s activist friends, recounted stories of how Chicano college students resisted and reacted to the state’s politics, sometimes putting their own lives on the line, and that dislodged my own memories of my own activism in those years. In the past 30 years I’ve rarely talked publicly about how I was part of the early ’90s Chicano student movement, leading a student newspaper, producing a campus public affairs show and attending protests in California, some of the same protests that Oscar attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those personal connections led me to dig deeper. I spent months searching for documents and engaging in a deep process of thinking about how the activist and journalism work I did back then affects me today. I similarly dug deep into Oscar’s college activism and found overlaps between Oscar’s work and mine. The results are in the eight-episode LAist Studios podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/podcasts/imperfectparadise\">Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Time traveling back to the early ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doing this work has made me feel like I’ve been living in the years 1990-1994. Judith Segura-Mora was one of the people who triggered a waterfall of memories. She was the UC Davis student who recruited Oscar to a Chicano student organization on campus in 1990. We put two and two together and I recalled having seen her speak at the National Chicano Student Conference in Albuquerque in 1992. I paid my way there to write a story for Voz Fronteriza, the Chicano newspaper at UC San Diego. It was the first out-of-town reporting assignment in my fledgling reporting career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to Judith at a reception for the Gomez family a day before Oscar’s degree ceremony. She introduced me to Eddie Salas, who was DJing at the reception. He helped on Oscar’s Chicano public affairs radio show, “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/user-532477086\">La Onda Xicana\u003c/a>” (also known as “La Onda Chicana”), and had many late-night conversations with Oscar about a variety of musicians. Hearing Eddie’s stories about “La Onda Chicana” took me back to my own public affairs college radio show, “Radio Califas.” My show sparked an interest in the new rock bands coming out of Mexico and Latin America, an interest that would lead me to write music and concert reviews for many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1172px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-producing-Radio-Califas-at-UCSDs-station.jpg\" alt=\"young man behind a DJ booth wearing a leather jacket and glasses smiles into the camera as a record sits on a turntable in the foreground\" width=\"1172\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-producing-Radio-Califas-at-UCSDs-station.jpg 1172w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-producing-Radio-Califas-at-UCSDs-station-800x629.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-producing-Radio-Califas-at-UCSDs-station-1020x802.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-producing-Radio-Califas-at-UCSDs-station-160x126.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1172px) 100vw, 1172px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adolfo Guzman-Lopez producing ‘Radio Califas’ at UCSD’s station, KSDT. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Adolfo Guzman-Lopez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I found a box of cassettes of my show. I was surprised at the list of interviews: the film director Robert Rodriguez talking about his first film, the LA poet Marisela Norte, the renowned Chicana journalist Elizabeth Martínez, ethnic studies scholar George Lipsitz guest-DJing while he talked about 1960s and ’70s music. And I remembered that I convinced UC San Diego ethnic studies professor Jorge Mariscal to give me and the other students working on the show academic credit for our efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class was Lit/Writing 121 Reportage. Its four units and the A grade I earned raised my grade-point average enough to allow me to graduate from UC San Diego in 1993. Looking at the diversity of Latino arts, culture and politics on the show, I’d say our Radio Califas production team delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the podcast production team and I tried to find out what happened to Oscar for “Forgotten Revolutionary,” we heard many more stories of 1990s activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nValentino Gutierrez, now a high school teacher in Pico Rivera, told us of going on hunger strike to expand Chicano studies while he was an undergrad at UC Santa Barbara. Margarita Berta-Avila, a fellow student and friend of Oscar’s at UC Davis, told us how strongly she felt about the Chicano movement despite not being Mexican American (her parents are from El Salvador and Peru). Other friends of Oscar’s, like Sabrina Enrique, talked of the sexism of the 1990s movement that I believed then was a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The emotional toll of activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I heard former activists, including Judith, talk about the emotional toll so much activism took on her and her fellow student activists. She said her grades and mental health suffered. Mining my own feelings and looking at my academic transcript, I remembered how mine did, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’re at where we’re at today without these sacrifices and activism of the folks in the ’90s,” said Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, a professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like they’ve always been properly recognized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activism of 1990s college students survives in memories and on mostly analog platforms. These students’ newspapers, film print photographs and cassette audio recordings remain in dusty boxes in attics and garages, and in some university archives, if they’ve survived at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that contributes, Ambruster-Sandoval said, to 1990s Chicano student activism being a “lost period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira.jpg\" alt=\"aerial black and white photo of young activists holding signs reading 'Columbus had no green card' and 'Chicano power' and 'brown is beautiful'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists hold signs at an anti-Columbus protest on Oct. 10, 1992, in San Ysidro. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Gene Chavira)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For about 25 years, that’s what the early 1990s college activist experience felt like to me. Every time I take out copies of the UC San Diego newspaper, Voz Fronteriza, that contain my writings, the pages seem to be more yellow and more brittle. I have cassette copies of my radio shows that need to be digitized before time erases their content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I began a mainstream journalism career in the late 1990s, I heard people in my first newsroom say journalism that came out of activism and even ethnic journalism fell into the category of “advocacy journalism.” There is some truth to that. But the comments left a chilling effect that led me to put away my college journalism experiences and lock them up in favor of a traditional “objective” approach. I was at the very beginning of a paid journalism career and I didn’t want another target on my back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to tell Oscar’s story for the podcast, I had to tell my own story as a 1990s activist because he and I moved in some of the same activist circles and attended some of the same marches, including the protest in downtown Santa Barbara to support Chicano Studies Professor Rudy Acuña on Feb. 1, 1992. Acuña had been turned down for a faculty position in Chicano studies at UC Santa Barbara the year before and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-26-me-1047-story.html\">would sue the university\u003c/a>, alleging bias against him for his activism, race and age. Acuña’s 1972 book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/occupied-america-history-of-chicanos\">Occupied America: A History of Chicanos\u003c/a>,” and subsequent scholarship led many to consider him a founder of Chicano studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I met Oscar and talked to him briefly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s red-hot politics brought Oscar, me and thousands of other students to those Santa Barbara streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz.jpg\" alt=\"black and white photo of smiling students holding large banner reading 'voz fronteriza'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adolfo Guzman-Lopez (second from right, in vest) and other San Diego college students who collaborated on the UC San Diego Chicano student newspaper, Voz Fronteriza, attend a rally in Santa Barbara on Feb. 1, 1992. The tall man in the center is Arnulfo Casillas, a Chicano education and cultural activist in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara who had worked on Voz Fronteriza in the late 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Gene Chavira)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state’s institutions were being stretched to the limit after large numbers of people immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1980s to escape \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/latin-american-debt-crisis#:~:text=The%20spark%20for%20the%20crisis,at%20that%20point%20totaled%20%2480\">economic crisis in Mexico\u003c/a> and violent civil wars in Central America, both situations stoked by U.S. policies. Anti-immigrant groups responded with nativist proposals to take away the civil rights of immigrants. They successfully proposed ballot measures like \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/proposition-187-what-you-need-to-know\">Proposition 187\u003c/a> that targeted undocumented immigrants and their kids. (A federal judge ruled in 1997 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-15-mn-54053-story.html\">Prop. 187 was unconstitutional\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those anti-immigrant sentiments led me, Oscar and many other Chicano students to feel like we each had a target on our backs. And that environment spilled onto campuses, too, as Agustín Orozco, my friend from UC San Diego, describes\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2022-07-07/opinion-agustin-orozco-activism?fbclid=IwAR1kOhMJRMLU5L0uLSdABE1qxNyIxZJLDV4d1B5wltj8F6De93gQORvBZwM\"> in this essay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our shared, yet different, backgrounds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oscar and I were both Chicanos but different in many ways. He was a middle-class U.S. citizen raised in the suburbs of LA County. My mother cleaned houses for a living. She and I moved to San Diego when I was 7 years old. We overstayed our tourist visas and only received the authorization to stay permanently about a decade later, when the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, most often described as amnesty, became law in my senior year of high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar responded to the xenophobia by joining the Chicano student organization on campus, then producing a weekly college radio show that mixed various types of music with in-studio interviews and field recordings from protests and marches he attended in different parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this podcast, my identity as a Chicano felt stuck in the 1990s. But I’ve adopted a fuller understanding of what Chicano, Chicana, Chicanx, Latino and Latinx activism has led to. I now see how the student activism of the 1990s helped lead to the intersectional coalition building of current times, and the exploration of Indigenous philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more that we could find out about these people and what they went through and, you know, even in this case, how they passed away or were killed, you know, the more we can share truth with people,” said Israel Calderon, a history teacher at Oscar’s alma mater, Baldwin Park High School, and a childhood friend of Oscar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Liberate your mind’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the reasons Calderon and some of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/luchascholar/\">Oscar’s friends and relatives created a foundation in Oscar’s name\u003c/a> to raise money and hand out scholarships to Baldwin Park area high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re more interested in promoting Oscar’s message to “liberate your mind” and help those who need help than they are to mythologize Oscar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/OscarGomezProfileCrouching.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a young man in a white shirt and black cap crouches on an empty roadway\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/OscarGomezProfileCrouching.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/OscarGomezProfileCrouching-160x112.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Gomez in an undated photo, circa 1992. \u003ccite>(Courtesy KCSB)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A story that aired last year on NPR reminded me to keep my reporting focused on the human experience. It was a story about then-NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro leaving the network. The reporter described how Garcia-Navarro had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2006/06/05/5452082/are-npr-reporters-too-involved-in-their-stories\">defended her deeply personal interviewing and reporting approaches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As journalists we do not check our humanity at the door. What we must do is try and give an accurate representation of what is happening before us to the best of our ability, leaving aside our prejudices,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How and whether I compartmentalize my humanity in the work I do is a question this podcast has raised for me and for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I doing what we had set out to? Have I compromised?” said Margarita Berta-Avila, who’s now a leader with the California Faculty Association, the union for California State University professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said thinking of Oscar, 28 years after his death, has been an opportunity to check her ideals from her college years and ask whether she’s become jaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have spent 21 years telling people’s stories at Southern California Public Radio. I have, to the best of my ability, tried to tell stories about people living deep moments in their lives, and of policies that would affect people in one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel like I’ve kept a part of my humanity checked at the door at times, fearing that some kind of bias would creep in. There is no bias in connecting deeply with human experiences and letting my own humanity live in that moment, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that insight, I have El Bandido de Aztlan, Oscar Gomez, to thank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nValentino Gutierrez, now a high school teacher in Pico Rivera, told us of going on hunger strike to expand Chicano studies while he was an undergrad at UC Santa Barbara. Margarita Berta-Avila, a fellow student and friend of Oscar’s at UC Davis, told us how strongly she felt about the Chicano movement despite not being Mexican American (her parents are from El Salvador and Peru). Other friends of Oscar’s, like Sabrina Enrique, talked of the sexism of the 1990s movement that I believed then was a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The emotional toll of activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I heard former activists, including Judith, talk about the emotional toll so much activism took on her and her fellow student activists. She said her grades and mental health suffered. Mining my own feelings and looking at my academic transcript, I remembered how mine did, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’re at where we’re at today without these sacrifices and activism of the folks in the ’90s,” said Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, a professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like they’ve always been properly recognized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activism of 1990s college students survives in memories and on mostly analog platforms. These students’ newspapers, film print photographs and cassette audio recordings remain in dusty boxes in attics and garages, and in some university archives, if they’ve survived at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that contributes, Ambruster-Sandoval said, to 1990s Chicano student activism being a “lost period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira.jpg\" alt=\"aerial black and white photo of young activists holding signs reading 'Columbus had no green card' and 'Chicano power' and 'brown is beautiful'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/San-Ysidro-Anti-Columbus-protest-October-10-1992-Photo-by-Gene-Chavira-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists hold signs at an anti-Columbus protest on Oct. 10, 1992, in San Ysidro. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Gene Chavira)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For about 25 years, that’s what the early 1990s college activist experience felt like to me. Every time I take out copies of the UC San Diego newspaper, Voz Fronteriza, that contain my writings, the pages seem to be more yellow and more brittle. I have cassette copies of my radio shows that need to be digitized before time erases their content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I began a mainstream journalism career in the late 1990s, I heard people in my first newsroom say journalism that came out of activism and even ethnic journalism fell into the category of “advocacy journalism.” There is some truth to that. But the comments left a chilling effect that led me to put away my college journalism experiences and lock them up in favor of a traditional “objective” approach. I was at the very beginning of a paid journalism career and I didn’t want another target on my back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to tell Oscar’s story for the podcast, I had to tell my own story as a 1990s activist because he and I moved in some of the same activist circles and attended some of the same marches, including the protest in downtown Santa Barbara to support Chicano Studies Professor Rudy Acuña on Feb. 1, 1992. Acuña had been turned down for a faculty position in Chicano studies at UC Santa Barbara the year before and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-26-me-1047-story.html\">would sue the university\u003c/a>, alleging bias against him for his activism, race and age. Acuña’s 1972 book, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/occupied-america-history-of-chicanos\">Occupied America: A History of Chicanos\u003c/a>,” and subsequent scholarship led many to consider him a founder of Chicano studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I met Oscar and talked to him briefly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s red-hot politics brought Oscar, me and thousands of other students to those Santa Barbara streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz.jpg\" alt=\"black and white photo of smiling students holding large banner reading 'voz fronteriza'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Adolfo-Guzman-Lopez-Voz-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adolfo Guzman-Lopez (second from right, in vest) and other San Diego college students who collaborated on the UC San Diego Chicano student newspaper, Voz Fronteriza, attend a rally in Santa Barbara on Feb. 1, 1992. The tall man in the center is Arnulfo Casillas, a Chicano education and cultural activist in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara who had worked on Voz Fronteriza in the late 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Gene Chavira)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state’s institutions were being stretched to the limit after large numbers of people immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1980s to escape \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/latin-american-debt-crisis#:~:text=The%20spark%20for%20the%20crisis,at%20that%20point%20totaled%20%2480\">economic crisis in Mexico\u003c/a> and violent civil wars in Central America, both situations stoked by U.S. policies. Anti-immigrant groups responded with nativist proposals to take away the civil rights of immigrants. They successfully proposed ballot measures like \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/proposition-187-what-you-need-to-know\">Proposition 187\u003c/a> that targeted undocumented immigrants and their kids. (A federal judge ruled in 1997 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-15-mn-54053-story.html\">Prop. 187 was unconstitutional\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those anti-immigrant sentiments led me, Oscar and many other Chicano students to feel like we each had a target on our backs. And that environment spilled onto campuses, too, as Agustín Orozco, my friend from UC San Diego, describes\u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2022-07-07/opinion-agustin-orozco-activism?fbclid=IwAR1kOhMJRMLU5L0uLSdABE1qxNyIxZJLDV4d1B5wltj8F6De93gQORvBZwM\"> in this essay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our shared, yet different, backgrounds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oscar and I were both Chicanos but different in many ways. He was a middle-class U.S. citizen raised in the suburbs of LA County. My mother cleaned houses for a living. She and I moved to San Diego when I was 7 years old. We overstayed our tourist visas and only received the authorization to stay permanently about a decade later, when the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, most often described as amnesty, became law in my senior year of high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar responded to the xenophobia by joining the Chicano student organization on campus, then producing a weekly college radio show that mixed various types of music with in-studio interviews and field recordings from protests and marches he attended in different parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this podcast, my identity as a Chicano felt stuck in the 1990s. But I’ve adopted a fuller understanding of what Chicano, Chicana, Chicanx, Latino and Latinx activism has led to. 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Have I compromised?” said Margarita Berta-Avila, who’s now a leader with the California Faculty Association, the union for California State University professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said thinking of Oscar, 28 years after his death, has been an opportunity to check her ideals from her college years and ask whether she’s become jaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have spent 21 years telling people’s stories at Southern California Public Radio. I have, to the best of my ability, tried to tell stories about people living deep moments in their lives, and of policies that would affect people in one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel like I’ve kept a part of my humanity checked at the door at times, fearing that some kind of bias would creep in. There is no bias in connecting deeply with human experiences and letting my own humanity live in that moment, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that insight, I have El Bandido de Aztlan, Oscar Gomez, to thank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It was the early 1960s, and across the country, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses had converged to create a dark era for LGBTQIA+ people – especially gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spider, spider, along the ceiling slide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spin your prison cell locking me inside,\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">now should my fearful trembling send\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a tremor through your webbed descent\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">then it is true what I surmise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that men their dreadful dooms devise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on as thin a silk as yours.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">- Gene Ampon, #11302\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero State Hospital, circa 1962\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The state psychiatric facility on California’s central coast had opened just eight years before Ampon got there, proudly proclaiming to be the only one in the world to specialize in the treatment of “sexual deviants.” Scholars would come to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066356-dishonorablepassions_atascadero\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">describe it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the most notorious facility in the Western United States to confine and mistreat gay men. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gene Ampon\"]'It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.’[/pullquote]Most patients were adults who’d been targeted, entrapped and arrested for public displays of gay behavior. And because “homosexuality” was considered a \u003ca href=\"https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=orwwu\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric disorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, judges could commit them to Atascadero – sometimes before their criminal cases had been adjudicated – for evaluation and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066374-uncontrolleddesires\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">indefinite treatment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others weren’t even adults. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ampon was just 16 years old when law enforcement delivered him to the locked hospital. His story is part of a dreadful chapter in California history, when gay men, and even teens, were confined by the state and subjected to treatments that today would be considered torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a time that’s been largely forgotten, crowded out by celebrations of LBGTQIA+ Pride. Yet it’s essential that we remember. Because gay rights are once again under attack – in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Florida\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-gops-new-platform-calls-gay-people-abnormal-rejects-trans-identi-rcna34530\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/04/08/families-share-questions-fear-alabama-approves-anti-trans-bills/9510912002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and beyond. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As in most bleak chapters of history, there are points of light – heroes who rejected the notion of “homosexuality” as a mental illness, and galvanized a movement that brought about radical change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men stand next to each other inside a house.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon and Roger Anderson had been together for 44 years when a reporter visited their Seattle home on Queen Anne hill in August 2021. Their walls are covered in photos and postcards of their global adventures. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 75-year-old Gene Ampon agreed to an interview in August 2021. The Seattle home he’s shared with his life partner for four decades sits atop peaceful Queen Anne Hill. Wind chimes that Ampon collected cover the porch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He suffered a stroke in 2019, and at the time of the interview he had just completed a round of chemotherapy for cancer in his liver and lungs. His hope in openly sharing his experience, he said, was that “moving forward,” the country and world would have more “enlightened attitudes toward dealing with gay people, especially young gay people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was born in the Bay Area in 1946 to a Filipino father and Irish mother, who soon split up. Money was tight and chaos in his home life gave him some freedom to roam. At age 13, he was spending school days at an arcade near San Francisco’s Tenderloin and its thriving gay scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I used to like pinball machines,” he said. “And there were always older men who would say, ‘Oh you need another quarter?’ I said sure, why not?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, Ampon was lying about where he was spending the night in order to hang out with other gay teens – and hook up with men for a place to sleep and a free meal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We did actually a lot of cuddling,” he said, “and there was some sex.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’d been picked up for truancy before, so Ampon was on the radar of local police. One day, while he was having lunch at a diner, officers strolled in to question him. He landed in juvenile hall and “it snowballed from there.” He said youth corrections officials told him they didn't want his “homosexuality” to corrupt other kids, so they moved him through a series of youth facilities for nearly five months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Men in Ampon’s era were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066379-criminallawsusedagainstlgbtq\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">often criminalized for being gay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They could be charged with “lewd and lascivious behavior” for simply holding hands, kissing in public or dancing in a bar. Undercover cops who posed as potential sex partners entrapped men in public parks and restrooms. Charges included solicitation, loitering, vagrancy and indecent exposure. Oral and anal copulation carried more serious consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Ampon was a juvenile, so all he had to do to get locked up was skip school and hang around the gay scene. Because back then, a judge could find a teen to be a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066368-psychopathicdelinquent\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic delinquent”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> simply for violating social norms. If their parents or guardians agreed, they’d get shipped off to a state facility for an indefinite stay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the perspective of time, Ampon can laugh at the label.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It kind of sounds like you're little monsters,” he said. “It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg 1294w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-800x905.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-1020x1154.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-160x181.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon shortly after his release from Atascadero State Hospital. The photo is among many that cover the walls of the Seattle home that he and Roger Anderson have shared for decades. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Roger Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon insisted that his years at Atascadero do not define him. But as a young man, he conceded, “I was angry.” He wrote an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066382-insideatascaderogeneampon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">account of his confinement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after his release that was published by two gay newspapers in the early 1970s. He dedicated his prose poem to “all homosexual prisoners who must daily endure heterosexual justice-oppression.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that written account, he described how guards came to his cell with the judge’s order, signed by his parents, too. Soon, he was in handcuffs in the back of a Sheriff’s car, headed to Atascadero. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The car sped south along the California coast\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stretching, snapping the ties of family and home.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sitting, watching his childhood fade thru\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the rear-view mirror into mile-long years of fog behind.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reminding himself to not let them know they’d hurt him;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">his defiance shackled to the backseat.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imprisoned by names he’d been labeled with:\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incorrigable, truant, vagrant, queer, faggot, punk. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A Menace to Society,” he recalled them saying;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a crime whose only victim was himself. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like everyone committed to Atascadero, Ampon was considered a patient, not a prisoner. He was there for “treatment,” because “homosexuality” had been listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – since the first edition was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1952. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1973, the APA removed the diagnosis of \"homosexuality\" as a mental illness from the DSM. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2310px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917726\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg\" alt='An old pamphlet that reads \"Mental Disorders\" on the front.' width=\"2310\" height=\"1733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg 2310w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2310px) 100vw, 2310px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Homosexuality' was listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – beginning with the first edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. Gene Ampon’s life partner, Roger Anderson, obtained a rare copy of this 1965 supplement. It moved all types of so-called 'sexual deviance,' homosexuality included, to the catagory of 'sociopathic personality disturbance,' from the former 'psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.' \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if you were gay in 1962, when Ampon got to the hospital, you’d be diagnosed with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066383-1965dsm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.” \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teens at Atascadero were in the minority, housed with grown men, some of whom were seriously mentally ill and had committed violent crimes. On Ampon’s second day, a group of adult patients sexually assaulted him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was in the utility room, one of the few rooms that didn’t really have a door,” he said. “It’s where the buckets and mops were.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To reclaim some power, he converted future assaults into transactions – agreeing to sex in exchange for cigarettes and food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I guess I was a growing boy and I always wanted more,” he said, “kind of like Oliver Twist.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero would get excoriated in the radical gay press in the early 1970s for a host of inhumane treatments. One headline picked up nationwide described the facility as a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066385-dachau\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dachau for Queers.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A review of historical records indicates that by the time those reports were circulating, the worst was over. But in Ampon’s day, there was no radical gay press in existence to call attention to the horrors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/243118795\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transorbital lobotomies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, performed with an ice pick, occurred largely during the 1950s and were rare by Ampon’s time. But electroconvulsive shock therapy was in full force for all kinds of patients, not just gay patients. Some received as many as 60 treatments in a single year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11917727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg\" alt=\"A handwritten note.\" width=\"800\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-1020x341.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-160x54.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066388-ect4homosexuality\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handwritten notes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. He was given ECT in the late 1960s to “cure” his attraction to men. Then the doctor taunted him, “I bet you won’t do that again.” Ampon knew about these treatments, and wrote about them in his prose poem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saw the electric shock box wheeling down the hall\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stopping at someone else’s room; the guards taunting\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">him with the threat, “Your turn next.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new terror shot through his thoughts as the overhead light \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">flickered while each jolt burned into some unfortunate brain. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon’s age spared him the electroshock. Instead, for more than two years, he got a morning dose of phenobarbital – a barbiturate used to control seizures or, for very short periods, to control anxiety. Psychiatric medication was relatively new but widely used, often with the sole goal of sedating patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was also punished with solitary confinement, he said. The longest stint stemmed from “a puppy love” crush. When hospital guards noticed the friendship, they shipped his crush off to prison, and Ampon to a sweltering windowless concrete cell, with nothing but a thin sleeping mat. He spent a month there, lost in thought, composing poems about spiders and doom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond punishment and pills, \"treatment\" consisted of pressuring Ampon to not be gay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I remember this one doctor who was talking about homosexuality,” Ampon recalled with a mischievous smile. “And he said, 'Well, there is a normal homosexual period between 8 and 12 and then beyond that it’s abnormal.' So I piped up and said, ‘Is that a.m. or p.m.?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His humor was a testament to his resilience even then. But Ampon wanted out, and he’d end up trying to play the game, telling his treatment team he wanted to “explore” heterosexual experiences “They thought that was good,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Gene Ampon turned 18, in mid-1964, he was released. His parents had hardly visited. He was on his own, with no follow-up support. As it happens, he got out just in time. Because “treatment” at Atascadero was about to become even more sadistic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2022/06/24/when-gayness-was-a-crime-and-a-mental-illness-one-mans-journey-from-involuntary-confinement-to-pride/\">Read a full-length version of this story at MindSite News\u003c/a>, and learn about a few key people who stepped in to fight on behalf of gay men while they were confined at Atascadero, and as they were released to the community.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lee Romney is an independent journalist with a specialty in mental health and criminal justice. Jenny Johnson is a former public defender who co-founded San Francisco’s Behavioral Health Court. This story is a preview of their podcast-in-production, \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://novemberinmysoul.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">November In My Soul\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about mental illness, confinement and liberty in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their reporting has received support from a California Humanities California Documentary Project Production grant; the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism California Impact Fund; and the California Health Care Foundation. Also, t\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hey also thank the research librarians at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC, and at the California State Archives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story takes us back to an era before the rights of gay people were recognized as inherent to their humanity and right to privacy. This week, that era seems less far away than it used to.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Friday's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade\u003c/a> makes clear that the removal of a woman's right to privacy and bodily autonomy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913295/lgbtq-advocates-fear-implications-of-overturning-roe-v-wade\">might next mean the removal of federally protected rights for LGBTQ people\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Indeed, Justice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion concurring with the ruling, wrote that the court “should reconsider” three \"demonstrably erroneous decisions:” \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/496\">Griswold v. Connecticut\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a 1965 decision granting married couples the constitutional right to contraception; \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-102\">Lawrence v. Texas\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a 2003 case that struck down anti-sodomy laws; and \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-556\">Obergefell v. Hodges\u003c/a>\u003ci>, the 2015 case granting gay couples the constitutional right to marry.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a collaboration between MindSite News and KQED's The California Report Magazine.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">G\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ene Ampon committed the poem he called “Spider Spider” to memory when he was a teenager locked in solitary confinement at Atascadero State Hospital. It was the early 1960s, and across the country, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses had converged to create a dark era for LGBTQIA+ people – especially gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spider, spider, along the ceiling slide\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spin your prison cell locking me inside,\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">now should my fearful trembling send\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a tremor through your webbed descent\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">then it is true what I surmise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that men their dreadful dooms devise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on as thin a silk as yours.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">- Gene Ampon, #11302\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero State Hospital, circa 1962\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The state psychiatric facility on California’s central coast had opened just eight years before Ampon got there, proudly proclaiming to be the only one in the world to specialize in the treatment of “sexual deviants.” Scholars would come to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066356-dishonorablepassions_atascadero\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">describe it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the most notorious facility in the Western United States to confine and mistreat gay men. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most patients were adults who’d been targeted, entrapped and arrested for public displays of gay behavior. And because “homosexuality” was considered a \u003ca href=\"https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=orwwu\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric disorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, judges could commit them to Atascadero – sometimes before their criminal cases had been adjudicated – for evaluation and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066374-uncontrolleddesires\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">indefinite treatment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others weren’t even adults. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ampon was just 16 years old when law enforcement delivered him to the locked hospital. His story is part of a dreadful chapter in California history, when gay men, and even teens, were confined by the state and subjected to treatments that today would be considered torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a time that’s been largely forgotten, crowded out by celebrations of LBGTQIA+ Pride. Yet it’s essential that we remember. Because gay rights are once again under attack – in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Florida\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-gops-new-platform-calls-gay-people-abnormal-rejects-trans-identi-rcna34530\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/04/08/families-share-questions-fear-alabama-approves-anti-trans-bills/9510912002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alabama\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and beyond. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As in most bleak chapters of history, there are points of light – heroes who rejected the notion of “homosexuality” as a mental illness, and galvanized a movement that brought about radical change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men stand next to each other inside a house.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GeneRogerAtHomeInSeattle-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon and Roger Anderson had been together for 44 years when a reporter visited their Seattle home on Queen Anne hill in August 2021. Their walls are covered in photos and postcards of their global adventures. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 75-year-old Gene Ampon agreed to an interview in August 2021. The Seattle home he’s shared with his life partner for four decades sits atop peaceful Queen Anne Hill. Wind chimes that Ampon collected cover the porch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He suffered a stroke in 2019, and at the time of the interview he had just completed a round of chemotherapy for cancer in his liver and lungs. His hope in openly sharing his experience, he said, was that “moving forward,” the country and world would have more “enlightened attitudes toward dealing with gay people, especially young gay people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was born in the Bay Area in 1946 to a Filipino father and Irish mother, who soon split up. Money was tight and chaos in his home life gave him some freedom to roam. At age 13, he was spending school days at an arcade near San Francisco’s Tenderloin and its thriving gay scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I used to like pinball machines,” he said. “And there were always older men who would say, ‘Oh you need another quarter?’ I said sure, why not?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, Ampon was lying about where he was spending the night in order to hang out with other gay teens – and hook up with men for a place to sleep and a free meal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We did actually a lot of cuddling,” he said, “and there was some sex.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’d been picked up for truancy before, so Ampon was on the radar of local police. One day, while he was having lunch at a diner, officers strolled in to question him. He landed in juvenile hall and “it snowballed from there.” He said youth corrections officials told him they didn't want his “homosexuality” to corrupt other kids, so they moved him through a series of youth facilities for nearly five months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Men in Ampon’s era were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066379-criminallawsusedagainstlgbtq\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">often criminalized for being gay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They could be charged with “lewd and lascivious behavior” for simply holding hands, kissing in public or dancing in a bar. Undercover cops who posed as potential sex partners entrapped men in public parks and restrooms. Charges included solicitation, loitering, vagrancy and indecent exposure. Oral and anal copulation carried more serious consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Ampon was a juvenile, so all he had to do to get locked up was skip school and hang around the gay scene. Because back then, a judge could find a teen to be a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066368-psychopathicdelinquent\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic delinquent”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> simply for violating social norms. If their parents or guardians agreed, they’d get shipped off to a state facility for an indefinite stay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the perspective of time, Ampon can laugh at the label.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It kind of sounds like you're little monsters,” he said. “It wasn’t like I’d killed somebody or stole something, but they didn’t really have any idea what to do with gay kids.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1294\" height=\"1464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene.jpeg 1294w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-800x905.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-1020x1154.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/YoungGene-160x181.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ampon shortly after his release from Atascadero State Hospital. The photo is among many that cover the walls of the Seattle home that he and Roger Anderson have shared for decades. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Roger Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon insisted that his years at Atascadero do not define him. But as a young man, he conceded, “I was angry.” He wrote an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066382-insideatascaderogeneampon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">account of his confinement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after his release that was published by two gay newspapers in the early 1970s. He dedicated his prose poem to “all homosexual prisoners who must daily endure heterosexual justice-oppression.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that written account, he described how guards came to his cell with the judge’s order, signed by his parents, too. Soon, he was in handcuffs in the back of a Sheriff’s car, headed to Atascadero. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The car sped south along the California coast\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stretching, snapping the ties of family and home.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sitting, watching his childhood fade thru\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the rear-view mirror into mile-long years of fog behind.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reminding himself to not let them know they’d hurt him;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">his defiance shackled to the backseat.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imprisoned by names he’d been labeled with:\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incorrigable, truant, vagrant, queer, faggot, punk. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A Menace to Society,” he recalled them saying;\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a crime whose only victim was himself. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like everyone committed to Atascadero, Ampon was considered a patient, not a prisoner. He was there for “treatment,” because “homosexuality” had been listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – since the first edition was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1952. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1973, the APA removed the diagnosis of \"homosexuality\" as a mental illness from the DSM. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2310px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917726\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg\" alt='An old pamphlet that reads \"Mental Disorders\" on the front.' width=\"2310\" height=\"1733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM.jpeg 2310w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/1965DSM-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2310px) 100vw, 2310px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Homosexuality' was listed in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – beginning with the first edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. Gene Ampon’s life partner, Roger Anderson, obtained a rare copy of this 1965 supplement. It moved all types of so-called 'sexual deviance,' homosexuality included, to the catagory of 'sociopathic personality disturbance,' from the former 'psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.' \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if you were gay in 1962, when Ampon got to the hospital, you’d be diagnosed with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066383-1965dsm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“psychopathic personality disorder with pathologic sexuality.” \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teens at Atascadero were in the minority, housed with grown men, some of whom were seriously mentally ill and had committed violent crimes. On Ampon’s second day, a group of adult patients sexually assaulted him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was in the utility room, one of the few rooms that didn’t really have a door,” he said. “It’s where the buckets and mops were.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To reclaim some power, he converted future assaults into transactions – agreeing to sex in exchange for cigarettes and food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I guess I was a growing boy and I always wanted more,” he said, “kind of like Oliver Twist.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atascadero would get excoriated in the radical gay press in the early 1970s for a host of inhumane treatments. One headline picked up nationwide described the facility as a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066385-dachau\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dachau for Queers.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A review of historical records indicates that by the time those reports were circulating, the worst was over. But in Ampon’s day, there was no radical gay press in existence to call attention to the horrors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/243118795\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transorbital lobotomies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, performed with an ice pick, occurred largely during the 1950s and were rare by Ampon’s time. But electroconvulsive shock therapy was in full force for all kinds of patients, not just gay patients. Some received as many as 60 treatments in a single year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11917727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg\" alt=\"A handwritten note.\" width=\"800\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-800x268.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-1020x341.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality-160x54.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/ECT4Homosexuality.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22066388-ect4homosexuality\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handwritten notes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from an Atascadero research assistant describe one gay patient’s experience. He was given ECT in the late 1960s to “cure” his attraction to men. Then the doctor taunted him, “I bet you won’t do that again.” Ampon knew about these treatments, and wrote about them in his prose poem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He saw the electric shock box wheeling down the hall\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stopping at someone else’s room; the guards taunting\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">him with the threat, “Your turn next.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new terror shot through his thoughts as the overhead light \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">flickered while each jolt burned into some unfortunate brain. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon’s age spared him the electroshock. Instead, for more than two years, he got a morning dose of phenobarbital – a barbiturate used to control seizures or, for very short periods, to control anxiety. Psychiatric medication was relatively new but widely used, often with the sole goal of sedating patients. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ampon was also punished with solitary confinement, he said. The longest stint stemmed from “a puppy love” crush. When hospital guards noticed the friendship, they shipped his crush off to prison, and Ampon to a sweltering windowless concrete cell, with nothing but a thin sleeping mat. He spent a month there, lost in thought, composing poems about spiders and doom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond punishment and pills, \"treatment\" consisted of pressuring Ampon to not be gay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I remember this one doctor who was talking about homosexuality,” Ampon recalled with a mischievous smile. “And he said, 'Well, there is a normal homosexual period between 8 and 12 and then beyond that it’s abnormal.' So I piped up and said, ‘Is that a.m. or p.m.?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His humor was a testament to his resilience even then. But Ampon wanted out, and he’d end up trying to play the game, telling his treatment team he wanted to “explore” heterosexual experiences “They thought that was good,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Gene Ampon turned 18, in mid-1964, he was released. His parents had hardly visited. He was on his own, with no follow-up support. As it happens, he got out just in time. Because “treatment” at Atascadero was about to become even more sadistic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2022/06/24/when-gayness-was-a-crime-and-a-mental-illness-one-mans-journey-from-involuntary-confinement-to-pride/\">Read a full-length version of this story at MindSite News\u003c/a>, and learn about a few key people who stepped in to fight on behalf of gay men while they were confined at Atascadero, and as they were released to the community.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lee Romney is an independent journalist with a specialty in mental health and criminal justice. Jenny Johnson is a former public defender who co-founded San Francisco’s Behavioral Health Court. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\">Roe v. Wade — the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision that guaranteed at least some degree of abortion access in the U.S. — is gone.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-1392.html\">a case from Mississippi that weighed whether bans on abortion before fetal viability are constitutional\u003c/a>. As many across the U.S. feared since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913033/heres-what-could-happen-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\">a draft opinion of a decision in the case leaked in May\u003c/a>, June 24’s majority has struck down Roe v. Wade, and effectively reversed nearly 50 years of legal standing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913033/heres-what-could-happen-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\">giving individual states the power to ban any and all abortion procedures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Share your voice with us\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to take action, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912860/roe-v-wade-where-to-donate-abortion-reproductive-rights-supreme-court\">learn about ways to support abortion access now\u003c/a>, within California and further afield, in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912860/roe-v-wade-where-to-donate-abortion-reproductive-rights-supreme-court\">guide from KQED Arts and Culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a space to share your thoughts, or tell your own story about abortion, KQED Public Radio’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives\">Perspectives\u003c/a> series — our morning series that lets listeners have their say in their own words — wants to hear from you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you feel about living in a nation without Roe v. Wade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Share your thoughts in the form below, and we may be in touch to talk about featuring your story, told by you in your own voice, on air. You can also email \u003ca href=\"mailto:mtrautwein@kqed.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mtrautwein@kqed.org\u003c/a> or call (415) 553-2108 and leave us a message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you prefer to just ask us a question about what this means for the U.S. and California, \u003ca href=\"#ask\">you can send us your question here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCV-FMA3W1019BmzePKn_0BQkcSy8Bfluu3ZP_ZcOt-oDHAA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remembering the reality before Roe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ever since May’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1096053620/supreme-court-roe-wade-leaked-draft-opinion-politico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leak of Justice Alito’s draft opinion\u003c/a>, people around the state have feared the official fall of Roe: how it will affect the lives of people needing abortions around the nation, and how this new reality might harken back to the time before Roe. And many have been compelled to share their personal experiences with abortion — some for the very first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Lesley McClurg spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/29/1101973218/women-share-their-experience-of-getting-an-abortion-before-roe-made-it-legal\">several women who ended their pregnancies before Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>. For many, the memories of their illegal abortions were traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These women included Pearl Lipner, who sought an abortion in 1963 when she was 18 years old and using the birth control pill. For $1,500 in cash, she was given an abortion using the dangerous technique of packing the uterus with gauze, used back then by unskilled abortion providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something happened, I was not to go to the hospital because I’d be immediately arrested,” said Lipner. Twenty-four hours later, she was alone and in excruciating pain, and passed out as she began hemorrhaging. Hours later, a friend arranged for a former Vietnam medic to visit her home to give Lipner a blood transfusion — with likely stolen blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClurg also spoke with her own mother, Jan, whom she says opened the conversation by saying, “You know, you might not be here today if I hadn’t had an abortion in 1968.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan McClurg related how after her own illegal abortion in Mexico City, she began bleeding heavily — “I remember just being terrified” — but, like Lipner, didn’t dare go to the hospital for fear of the legal repercussions. She recovered quickly but said, “I go years and don’t even think about it. And then when I do, I still get so emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told her daughter she has no regrets. “There was no way on Earth that I was prepared for motherhood. It was not meant to be,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the full story from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Women Share Their Experience of Getting an Abortion Before Roe Made it Legal\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mcclurg-abortionmag/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More Californians share their abortion stories\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of Friday’s decision, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889084/women-who-have-had-abortions-reflect-on-a-world-without-roe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum discussed the implications of a world without Roe\u003c/a>, and invited listeners to call in and share their personal experiences with abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outpouring of responses reflected both the weight and trauma of unwanted pregnancy, and the liberation granted by laws that support bodily autonomy. You can read those listener accounts in our article \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914690\">‘The Decision That Was Right for Me’: Advocates and KQED Listeners Share Their Abortion Stories\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many people reached out to Forum to share their stories that not all could be featured in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889084/women-who-have-had-abortions-reflect-on-a-world-without-roe\">the hour-long show\u003c/a>. But as Roe is struck down, and California grapples with the reality of a nation with no guaranteed abortion access, we’re bringing their stories to you now:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.carolebumpus.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carole Bumpus:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>“When I became pregnant while unmarried and in college, I chose to deliver my baby and give her up for adoption. This was in 1967 and during the Vietnam war. The father of the baby was unwilling to accept responsibility, my own father was an Anglican [Episcopal] priest, and I didn’t want to bring shame to our family. I went far, far away to deliver in a state where I knew no one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fifteen years later, when I was ending a brutal marriage, I found I was pregnant again. I chose abortion and have never felt one moment of regret. I couldn’t abide staying in the marriage and had two other children to take care of and raise while working two jobs. I wanted to give my living children what energy I had left for them. One of the reasons I went ahead with the abortion was because it was so painful to lose my first baby to adoption. When that sweet child reached the age of 25, she reached out to me and we have been connected ever since — but not without the residual loss of sharing her life before our meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since then I became a family therapist working with juveniles who ended up in detention. The legal term that was given to many of them was ‘throwaway children’ and were exactly the ones whose parents could not take care of them. This increased my belief that babies who are chosen will have a better life. Our stories do not end with the abortion, but become part of a bigger story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Forum listener:\u003c/strong> “For me at 29 years old, [abortion] was a difficult choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I was single, traveled for work, wanted a child but not without a partner. I did not feel I could be a single mother, and it was important to me to bring a child into a loving family. Without a willing partner, I could not bring a child into that life. I knew I could never have given birth and given the child away for adoption — that would have destroyed me emotionally and mentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’m] now 65 years old, still with the same man, still not married, never had children. It was the right decision at the time and I have never regretted the choice. So grateful for having the choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Domenica Devine:\u003c/strong> “I was 15 when I got pregnant. I did drugs and drank and had sex with multiple men — boys really. I thought I was so smart, but emotionally I had not a clue. The only smart thing I did was to get an abortion. It was not a decision I took lightly. It was a misery trying to decide what to do. I had plenty of examples of what solo motherhood looked like in my neighborhood and that frightened me. It looked dismal and not what I wanted for myself. Without my high school diploma and no way to support myself, I can’t imagine what my life would have looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hurt. I remember how much the procedure hurt, too. No anesthesia. I’ve recently had the same procedure, for obviously different reasons, and they knocked me out. I wonder now if the procedure was meant to hurt. As if the physical pain was necessary. I wonder about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At 17, having moved from home, with my own job and my own life, I was on the pill. And though I was diligent, perhaps I missed one, or I was the 1% breakthrough. I don’t suppose I’ll ever know. But I knew that I was not grown up enough to take on that responsibility. I could barely make rent. I wasn’t doing a great job of taking care of myself. So I had my second abortion. That decision was not easy either, but it was thoughtful, considered and deliberate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I would have accomplished much had I had children at that age. I got married — 33 years now. Besides my stepson, children were not in the cards for us. My husband and I traveled, lived in a few different cities, and I got the education I wanted. I found my bliss in science and I finally got my doctorate in education. I have had a wonderful life and wouldn’t change a minute. What I have is a life lived fully. Which would not have been, had I not made the decision to have two abortions. I suppose if I had been forced to raise two children without any support, my life might have been all right, but I doubt it. The social safety net for single mothers just doesn’t exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Forum listener: \u003c/strong>“When I was 19 in 1991, I became pregnant. I was in my sophomore year in college and I wasn’t even sure which sexual partner I had gotten pregnant with, my boyfriend or my ex-boyfriend. I loved my ex-boyfriend, but he was completely unstable, later diagnosed as bipolar and a heavy cocaine user. I was not even sure that I wanted children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to my mom and she helped me realize I was not ready to be a mother. It was a lifetime commitment. How could I afford a child? I decided to have an abortion. Afterwards, in the recovery room, the girl next to me tried to make small talk, but I told her I couldn’t speak right then. I was thinking about what I had done. I felt slightly sad, but mostly relieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went on to graduate with a master’s degree and have a fulfilling professional life. Additionally, I worked as an abortion counselor at the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health in Tennessee for four years. I saw so many women with their own personal stories. Some wanted to discuss it, others insisted they didn’t need to speak about their decision. I held the hand of hundreds of women while they were going through the procedure. It was meaningful work and was the best job that I ever had. I was helping women and some teenagers through a difficult decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ask\">\u003c/a>Send us your questions about the end of Roe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you want to ask us a question — whether it’s what losing Roe v. 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This leaves many vendors feeling they have no other choice but to develop their own exit strategies if their business is not included in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos White is part of a younger generation of San José residents who grew up at the market and are now employed in the tech industry — balancing two sides of San José. “It just feels like Big Tech is coming in and steamrolling all the little people out,” she said, “which is hard to say because I work in Big Tech. But my roots are at the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2047px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg\" alt=\"Katrina Ramos White and Russell White stand inside their stall moving metal hangers around and hanging plush figurines. They are surrounded by toys of many shapes, sizes and colors.\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg 2047w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramos White and her siblings grew up running around the dozens of aisles of La Pulga, while their parents worked at the toy stall. Her parents, Kim and Tony Ramos, are now retired. They worked for decades at the flea market on the weekends at the same time they had full-time jobs during weekdays. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A safety net\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Kim and Tony Ramos retired at the start of 2020 from both their full-time jobs and the flea market, they gave their children the option of either continuing to run their stall until La Pulga eventually closes, or close it before then, and sell off the inventory. Ramos White wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the stall, so she and her husband have kept the family business open — at least, for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that we could do for the next few years, especially with the end kind of nearing,” Ramos White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13905374\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/006_SanJose_BerryessaFleaMarket_10222021-1920x1280.jpg\"]Ramos White is a community product manager at MyHealthTeam, a social networking app for people who have similar chronic illnesses to cultivate communities. White works in marketing for Dripto, a new cryptocurrency company. Both are in their late 20s, and they want to start a family in a home of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple currently lives at home with Ramos White’s parents, just a few miles away from the flea market. By working at both their full-time jobs and at La Pulga on the weekends, they are saving as much as they can to afford buying a house of their own someday — but when they drive around San José today, a future there feels unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim and Tony Ramos (front) have seen many of their children leave the Bay Area due to the high cost of living. ‘I don’t have any little grandkids around me anymore, like I used to,’ Kim Ramos said. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right down the street from where I grew up, these luxury condos and townhouses are popping up,” Ramos White said. “My husband and I, who make a decent amount, still wouldn’t be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment. I always dreamed about living in the same neighborhood, sending my kids to the same schools I went to. That’s not a reality unless we want to just live with my parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, only 32% of potential first-time home buyers could afford a median-priced home in Santa Clara County, \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/download-the-2022-index#:~:text=Download%20the%202022%20Silicon%20Valley%20Index&text=Updated%20annually%2C%20it%20is%20a,for%20leadership%20and%20decision%20making\">according to an annual report from Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a think tank organization based in the South Bay. Over the past few years, Ramos White’s older siblings have moved out of California to find cheaper real estate. Now the family gets together a few times a year, as opposed to every night when everyone was living in the Bay Area. It’s been hard for her mom, Kim, to adjust to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any little grandkids around me anymore, like I used to,” Kim Ramos said. “I used to look forward to getting out of work and going to pick up the two little ones and bring them home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katrina Ramos White, flea market vendor\"]‘I always dreamed about living in the same neighborhood, sending my kids to the same schools I went to. That’s not a reality unless we want to just live with my parents.’[/pullquote]It would have been impossible for Kim and Tony Ramos to buy their own home and raise their kids without the income from their toy stall, said Tony. The stall served as a sort of safety net that helped smooth over rough patches when their weekday jobs cut back on hours or expenses went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to San José State. My older brother and older sister went to San José State, and the flea market paid for all of that,” Ramos White said. “Especially during the recession in 2008. My mom always says that the flea market really kept our family afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim and Tony are now enjoying retirement after decades of working every weekend at the toy stall. They are happy that Ramos White and her siblings went to college and have stable jobs, but realize their family’s relationship with the flea market is different from that of other families who solely rely on the flea market to pay the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see people who are totally dependent on the flea market and it’s a different kind of scenario [for them],” said Tony. “There is no way out. They are hurting, but for us, we’re maintaining it [for] those times that Silicon Valley is up and down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the end of the day draws near, Katrina and Russ begin to pack up their stall, including hundreds of toys. Russ worries that a lot of the original essence of La Pulga will be lost if it becomes a digital marketplace. ‘How many vendors at the flea market are going to be selling their fruits online?’ he asks. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>An online flea market? It’s just not the same\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bumb family and the city of San José have been negotiating about how to downsize the flea market since 2007. That’s when the city voted to rezone the land as a “mixed-use transit village,” surrounding the new BART station, which opened last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of 2020, a group of vendors formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berryessafleamarketvendorsassociation\">Berryessa Flea Market Vendor Association\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878548/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance\">organized extensively to ensure that no vendors are displaced\u003c/a> as the Berryessa BART Urban Village is developed. City officials have been trying to work with vendors to potentially move their small businesses to an online marketplace, in case they do not have a spot in the reimagined indoor marketplace within the Urban Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11879717\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49568_014_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\"]While a few vendors are embracing the shift to a digital marketplace, many lament what will be lost when the sights, sounds, smells and conversations that can be enjoyed in a huge, bustling flea market give way to something much smaller, much more sedate, sandwiched inside a mixed-use development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many vendors at the flea market are going to be selling their fruits online?” asked White. “People will literally drive two hours from home to go to the San José flea market. [Closing it] will forever change things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike his wife, White didn’t grow up going to the flea market each weekend; he started working at the toy stall as an adult. In his time working at the stall, he’s learned how other vendors and customers barter and haggle, skills that he believes give swap meets their character and energy — and that can’t be easily substituted online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga is a place where so many immigrant families and their children come together to make their dreams of financial stability a reality, Ramos White said. Waking up at dawn, knowing how to pull in customers, haggling to never lose a sale and staying past sunset to clean up — that’s the hustle culture that she says defines the energy of both the market and the families that have made it into a San José landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories from the South Bay' tag='san-jose']“Being children of immigrants, we know that they came to this country to give us a better life and everything that we do was built on their backs,” she said. “If you need to make money, you need to make money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s inherited this mentality from her parents, but has also incorporated what she’s learned from her own experiences at La Pulga. As she and Russ prepare for potentially letting go of their stall in a couple years, they’re not letting go of their dream of buying a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that the hundreds of families who work at the flea market are going to keep hustling to survive in the Bay Area, with or without La Pulga. “People’s backs are going to be up against the wall and they are going to make it happen because that’s all we know how to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>City officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/urban-villages/urban-village-plans-under-development/berryessa-bart\">approved this plan last summer\u003c/a>, but since then, property developers have not provided much information on how hundreds of stalls — which provide an extensive range of goods including furniture, produce, crafts and clothing — will fit inside the much smaller space. This leaves many vendors feeling they have no other choice but to develop their own exit strategies if their business is not included in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos White is part of a younger generation of San José residents who grew up at the market and are now employed in the tech industry — balancing two sides of San José. “It just feels like Big Tech is coming in and steamrolling all the little people out,” she said, “which is hard to say because I work in Big Tech. But my roots are at the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2047px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg\" alt=\"Katrina Ramos White and Russell White stand inside their stall moving metal hangers around and hanging plush figurines. They are surrounded by toys of many shapes, sizes and colors.\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg 2047w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramos White and her siblings grew up running around the dozens of aisles of La Pulga, while their parents worked at the toy stall. Her parents, Kim and Tony Ramos, are now retired. They worked for decades at the flea market on the weekends at the same time they had full-time jobs during weekdays. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A safety net\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Kim and Tony Ramos retired at the start of 2020 from both their full-time jobs and the flea market, they gave their children the option of either continuing to run their stall until La Pulga eventually closes, or close it before then, and sell off the inventory. Ramos White wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the stall, so she and her husband have kept the family business open — at least, for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that we could do for the next few years, especially with the end kind of nearing,” Ramos White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When singer Marina Crouse was a child in Southern California, Spanish surrounded her but was not a language she spoke. She’s a fourth-generation Californian and a Chicana, but when she was born, in the late 1960s, speaking English was heavily prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People now value being bilingual, but at that time, and before that, it was not necessarily valued,” says Crouse, who now lives in El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as an adult, she made a concerted effort to learn Spanish. It was a pursuit she became so committed to that she has since become a Spanish professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crouse’s study of language and literature came only after she pursued a career in music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916613 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"A women sings into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464-1920x1536.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8464.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Marina Crouse is well-known for her throaty blues. But her new album features Spanish songs originally sung by ‘crossover‘ artist Eydie Gormé. \u003ccite>(R Hakins/Freight and Salvage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I studied classical music [in college] and I thought I was going to be maybe an opera singer,” says Crouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was expensive to hire a teacher, and Crouse’s family couldn’t afford to help support her education. Crouse, who grew up in a lower-income, single-parent home, needed financial security, and wasn’t sure her love of music would translate into a true career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after college, graduate school, and a divorce, Crouse’s daughter encouraged her to return to music. She discovered that her bold, brassy voice was perfect for singing blues, and released her first album, “Never Too Soon,” in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/O1-xmJmLTCQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Crouse is back with a new album , “\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinacrouse.com/music\">Canto de Mi Corazón\u003c/a>” (released by the Bay Area’s Little Village Foundation), that celebrates her love of the Spanish language. It’s also a tribute to an artist whose work has long inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a record cover of an album called 'Amor' by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse holds a copy of the album ‘Amor’ performed by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos. Crouse remembers her grandmother playing the record whenever she would visit her as a child in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Crouse, the renowned singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eydie_Gorm%C3%A9\">Eydie Gormé\u003c/a> — who rose to stardom in the 1950s and 1960s — recorded in both English and Spanish. But Gormé’s background was a bit different: Her parents were Turkish-born Jews who emigrated to New York and spoke Ladino, a language derived from Spanish by Jews who were expelled from their homeland during the Spanish Inquisition. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeGLk4nGus&ab_channel=iTubeNL\">Gormé performed in Spanish\u003c/a> with a group called The Trio Los Panchos, becoming among the earliest so-called “crossover” artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her music, and the music she did in Spanish with Trio Los Panchos, was probably the most memorable music for me growing up,” says Crouse, whose new album pays tribute to Gormé, with versions of the songs “Piel Canela, Sabor a Mi” and “Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado.” She sings the entire album in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse, who grew up in Los Angeles, says her childhood was difficult. She moved around a lot and attended many different schools, she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she was a child, her grandmother’s house was an anchor for her. And that’s where she first encountered Gormé’s music, immediately noticing how happy it made her grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916611\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 232px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and a baby sit on an elderly woman's lap.\" width=\"232\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg 451w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny--160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse (left) says listening to Eydie Gormé’s records in Spanish with her grandmother is among her favorite memories from a childhood that was otherwise turbulent. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She had one of these big stereos that look like a 1960s TV console,” Crouse says. “And you would lift up the heavy top and put the records on in there and then the speakers were on each side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse remembers studying the album covers, reading the names of songs and looking at the pictures. Even though she didn’t understand the lyrics back then, the music — and the experience — left a lasting impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this sort of magical thing. And the music was so beautiful,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Piel Canela” is one of Crouse’s favorite tracks on the new album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lyrics are just so gorgeous,” she says. “It’s about brown skin, and the beauty of brown skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse says singing in Spanish “feels incredible” after the frustration she experienced as a child, when people often assumed she spoke Spanish, and she sometimes felt ashamed because she didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to sort of phonetically sing along, but I didn’t really understand what they were talking about,” she says. “After spending all these years studying Spanish and teaching literature and poetry and really, you know, sinking into words, it just feels … it sounds very cliché — it just feels like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/p046AdGMDc4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marina Crouse plans to celebrate her new album at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bandsintown.com/artist-rsvp/11902503?event_id=103493680&utm_campaign=event&utm_medium=api&app_id=WIX_marina-crouse-sings&utm_source=public_api&came_from=267&spn=0&signature=ZZea27e3c573a72de12bebfee46904818726858739fbb90311044b19ab85c27f88\">record release party \u003c/a>July 23 at The Sound Room in Oakland. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She discovered that her bold, brassy voice was perfect for singing blues, and released her first album, “Never Too Soon,” in 2018.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/O1-xmJmLTCQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/O1-xmJmLTCQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Now, Crouse is back with a new album , “\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinacrouse.com/music\">Canto de Mi Corazón\u003c/a>” (released by the Bay Area’s Little Village Foundation), that celebrates her love of the Spanish language. It’s also a tribute to an artist whose work has long inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a record cover of an album called 'Amor' by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8543-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse holds a copy of the album ‘Amor’ performed by Eydie Gormé and The Trio Los Panchos. Crouse remembers her grandmother playing the record whenever she would visit her as a child in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Crouse, the renowned singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eydie_Gorm%C3%A9\">Eydie Gormé\u003c/a> — who rose to stardom in the 1950s and 1960s — recorded in both English and Spanish. But Gormé’s background was a bit different: Her parents were Turkish-born Jews who emigrated to New York and spoke Ladino, a language derived from Spanish by Jews who were expelled from their homeland during the Spanish Inquisition. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeGLk4nGus&ab_channel=iTubeNL\">Gormé performed in Spanish\u003c/a> with a group called The Trio Los Panchos, becoming among the earliest so-called “crossover” artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her music, and the music she did in Spanish with Trio Los Panchos, was probably the most memorable music for me growing up,” says Crouse, whose new album pays tribute to Gormé, with versions of the songs “Piel Canela, Sabor a Mi” and “Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado.” She sings the entire album in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse, who grew up in Los Angeles, says her childhood was difficult. She moved around a lot and attended many different schools, she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she was a child, her grandmother’s house was an anchor for her. And that’s where she first encountered Gormé’s music, immediately noticing how happy it made her grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916611\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 232px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11916611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl and a baby sit on an elderly woman's lap.\" width=\"232\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny-.jpg 451w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Granny--160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Crouse (left) says listening to Eydie Gormé’s records in Spanish with her grandmother is among her favorite memories from a childhood that was otherwise turbulent. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Marina Crouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She had one of these big stereos that look like a 1960s TV console,” Crouse says. “And you would lift up the heavy top and put the records on in there and then the speakers were on each side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse remembers studying the album covers, reading the names of songs and looking at the pictures. Even though she didn’t understand the lyrics back then, the music — and the experience — left a lasting impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this sort of magical thing. And the music was so beautiful,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Piel Canela” is one of Crouse’s favorite tracks on the new album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lyrics are just so gorgeous,” she says. “It’s about brown skin, and the beauty of brown skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crouse says singing in Spanish “feels incredible” after the frustration she experienced as a child, when people often assumed she spoke Spanish, and she sometimes felt ashamed because she didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to sort of phonetically sing along, but I didn’t really understand what they were talking about,” she says. “After spending all these years studying Spanish and teaching literature and poetry and really, you know, sinking into words, it just feels … it sounds very cliché — it just feels like home.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/p046AdGMDc4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/p046AdGMDc4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marina Crouse plans to celebrate her new album at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bandsintown.com/artist-rsvp/11902503?event_id=103493680&utm_campaign=event&utm_medium=api&app_id=WIX_marina-crouse-sings&utm_source=public_api&came_from=267&spn=0&signature=ZZea27e3c573a72de12bebfee46904818726858739fbb90311044b19ab85c27f88\">record release party \u003c/a>July 23 at The Sound Room in Oakland. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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