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"content": "\u003cp>One day after \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481744095/police-say-multiple-victims-after-shooting-at-orlando-nightclub\">a depraved attack on an Orlando, Florida, nightclub\u003c/a> left 49 victims dead and 53 more wounded, investigators are working to learn more about the man they say was the lone shooter: Omar Mateen, who was killed at the scene. The case is being treated as a terrorist investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on the case Monday, President Obama said, \"It appears that the shooter was inspired by various extremist information\" online; he added that \"all those materials\" are now being scrutinized and \"exploited.\" The president discussed the Orlando case in the Oval Office, in which he spoke for nearly 15 minutes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president added that investigators aren't seeing signs that Mateen was directed by ISIS, noting that the gunman pledged allegiance to the group at a late juncture. Comparing the attack to one that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/03/458277103/san-bernardino-shootings-what-we-know-one-day-after\">hit San Bernardino\u003c/a> last December, Obama called it \"homegrown extremism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8a8K1WgkD678jObob1UYocKospazhhk7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families and friends of people who were in the Pulse nightclub have spent the past 24 hours trying to learn whether their loved ones survived, gathering in the street near the scene of the shooting. As of Monday morning, investigators said that 48 of the 49 victims had been identified, and that 24 families had been notified so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All victims have now been removed from the scene, and the process of reconstructing the events with forensics techniques is now beginning,\" Paul Wysopal, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Tampa division, said at a morning news conference in Orlando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said Mateen, who had come under FBI scrutiny at least twice over potential links to terrorism, carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history with guns he had legally purchased in recent days. Mateen also pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call during the attack, but officials said they haven't seen a direct link between the gunman and the terrorist group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack targeted Pulse Orlando, a gay nightclub that had been throwing a Latin Night dance party. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481811964/-that-could-have-been-me-a-change-of-plans-spared-these-orlando-residents?live=1\">In a report for NPR\u003c/a>, Eileen Holliday depicted the club as \"a longtime staple in the gay community\" that drew a wide-ranging audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timeline of the Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence began in the early hours of Sunday, June 12. Drawing from the police summary given Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after 2 a.m. ET, an Orlando police officer who was in uniform and working at Pulse responded to shots fired. The officer exchanged fire with the attacker near the entrance. More officers arrived; a second gun battle ensued and the gunman retreated into a bathroom, according to Orlando Police Chief John Mina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,\" read a message posted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pulseorlando\">the club's Facebook account\u003c/a> at 2:09 a.m. But not everyone got out, and the attack became a hostage situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circumstances then became relatively stable, Mina said, adding that negotiators spoke to the gunman and that no gunfire was heard. Mateen was \"cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us,\" Mina said. But the police chief added that the police were concerned the attacker might have had an explosive vest or another bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 5 a.m., police opted to force entry into the club by using an explosive to breach the exterior cinder-block wall of a bathroom full of people near a bathroom where Mateen had holed up. The decision was made out of concern that a \"further loss of life was imminent,\" Mina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10987793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/gettyimages-539749234_wide-9216c31501940b94358a05472144169cb3bc91af-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"FBI agents inspect the rear wall of the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where authorities say 49 victims died Sunday. The gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, was killed by police.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10987793\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents inspect the rear wall of the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where authorities say 49 victims died Sunday. The gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, was killed by police. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, Mateen was in a bathroom with 4-5 hostages, Mina said. He added that another 12-15 people are believed to have been in the adjacent bathroom. But the explosive breach didn't penetrate the wall completely, so an armored vehicle was also used to put a hole in the wall, and hostages began to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect came out of that hole himself,\" Mina said, and began firing at police. He was then killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando police say 11 officers were involved in that part of the operation, which they say rescued some 30 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Investigation, and the Weapons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police identified the gunman as Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida. A U.S. citizen, Mateen used an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun to carry out the attack, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agent with the field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Mateen legally purchased the firearms, acquiring them in the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI's Wysopal said Monday that some 100 leads have been generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing criminal investigation is in the early stages, said U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley. He added that other potential charges are possible, but officials don't currently believe there's an ongoing threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Lombardo of the ATF said her agency traced the weapons and confirmed that their last purchaser was Mateen. She added that a third weapon, which was found in Mateen's vehicle, was still being traced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Suspect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen was born in New York and worked as a security guard. He was married and had a 3-year-old son, according to his father, who spoke to the media Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tampa FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Ronald Hopper, the FBI had investigated Mateen twice: In 2013, after he \"made inflammatory comments to coworkers alleging possible terrorist ties\" and in 2014 when the agency evaluated his possible ties to U.S. suicide bomber Moner Mohammad Abusalha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR reported yesterday, FBI agents \"determined the contact was 'minimal' and did not constitute a threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials who've been briefed on the attack have told NPR's Carrie Johnson that Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's father has spoken publicly about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,\" Seddique Mir Mateen told \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/terror-hate-what-motivated-orlando-nightclub-shooter-n590496\">NBC News\u003c/a> Sunday. \"We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This had nothing to do with religion,\" The elder Mateen added. But he also described recent incidents in which his son had been angered by seeing men kissing each other in Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, addressed the media in Boulder, Colorado, saying her former husband was mentally unstable and \"would get mad out of nowhere.\" She said she left him with the help of her family, after he became physically abusive and controlling. Yusufiy also said Mateen had a history with steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cW1smw4lkc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Orlando is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityoforlando.net/victims\">updating its public list\u003c/a> of those killed in the attack, pending notification of next of kin. As of Monday morning, more than half of the 49 clubgoers who lost their lives had been named; of those who have, their ages run from 20-50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando is operating a hotline for anyone seeking information about friends or loved ones -- the number is 407-246-4357.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR is working to provide information about those who lost their lives, on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481785763/heres-what-we-know-about-the-orlando-shooting-victims\">page devoted to the victims\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando residents and others lined up to donate blood Sunday. Dozens of vigils were planned for Sunday in Florida and beyond. LGBT pride events in Washington, D.C., included a remembrance. And in New York, people gathered at the legendary Stonewall Inn last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shocking loss of life in Orlando was also mentioned several times during \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/13/481801620/tony-awards-honors-florida-victims-hamilton-wins-11-categories\">last night's Tony Awards ceremony\u003c/a>, including one instance in which Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man behind the record-setting musical \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thr/status/742157187892420608\">recited a sonnet\u003c/a> in response to the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/THR/status/742157187892420608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internationally, people in Belgium and Paris -- two places that recently saw brutal attacks on civilians -- paid their respects and showed their solidarity with Orlando. The Eiffel Tower will be lighted in rainbow colors tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.weareorlando.org/\">WeAreOrlando site\u003c/a> was set up to provide information about other events, as well as to promote a GoFundMe donation page that was set up by Equality Florida to help the victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer have declared states of emergency over the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481776539/obama-an-attack-on-any-american-is-an-attack-on-all-americans\">President Obama said\u003c/a> that \"although it's still early in the investigation, we know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate. As Americans, we are united in grief, in outrage, and in resolve to defend our people.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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More officers arrived; a second gun battle ensued and the gunman retreated into a bathroom, according to Orlando Police Chief John Mina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,\" read a message posted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pulseorlando\">the club's Facebook account\u003c/a> at 2:09 a.m. But not everyone got out, and the attack became a hostage situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circumstances then became relatively stable, Mina said, adding that negotiators spoke to the gunman and that no gunfire was heard. Mateen was \"cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us,\" Mina said. But the police chief added that the police were concerned the attacker might have had an explosive vest or another bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 5 a.m., police opted to force entry into the club by using an explosive to breach the exterior cinder-block wall of a bathroom full of people near a bathroom where Mateen had holed up. 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A U.S. citizen, Mateen used an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun to carry out the attack, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agent with the field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Mateen legally purchased the firearms, acquiring them in the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI's Wysopal said Monday that some 100 leads have been generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing criminal investigation is in the early stages, said U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley. He added that other potential charges are possible, but officials don't currently believe there's an ongoing threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Lombardo of the ATF said her agency traced the weapons and confirmed that their last purchaser was Mateen. She added that a third weapon, which was found in Mateen's vehicle, was still being traced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Suspect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen was born in New York and worked as a security guard. He was married and had a 3-year-old son, according to his father, who spoke to the media Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tampa FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Ronald Hopper, the FBI had investigated Mateen twice: In 2013, after he \"made inflammatory comments to coworkers alleging possible terrorist ties\" and in 2014 when the agency evaluated his possible ties to U.S. suicide bomber Moner Mohammad Abusalha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR reported yesterday, FBI agents \"determined the contact was 'minimal' and did not constitute a threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials who've been briefed on the attack have told NPR's Carrie Johnson that Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's father has spoken publicly about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,\" Seddique Mir Mateen told \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/terror-hate-what-motivated-orlando-nightclub-shooter-n590496\">NBC News\u003c/a> Sunday. \"We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This had nothing to do with religion,\" The elder Mateen added. But he also described recent incidents in which his son had been angered by seeing men kissing each other in Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, addressed the media in Boulder, Colorado, saying her former husband was mentally unstable and \"would get mad out of nowhere.\" She said she left him with the help of her family, after he became physically abusive and controlling. Yusufiy also said Mateen had a history with steroids.\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/8cW1smw4lkc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8cW1smw4lkc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Orlando is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityoforlando.net/victims\">updating its public list\u003c/a> of those killed in the attack, pending notification of next of kin. As of Monday morning, more than half of the 49 clubgoers who lost their lives had been named; of those who have, their ages run from 20-50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando is operating a hotline for anyone seeking information about friends or loved ones -- the number is 407-246-4357.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR is working to provide information about those who lost their lives, on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481785763/heres-what-we-know-about-the-orlando-shooting-victims\">page devoted to the victims\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando residents and others lined up to donate blood Sunday. Dozens of vigils were planned for Sunday in Florida and beyond. LGBT pride events in Washington, D.C., included a remembrance. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 7:10 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: An earlier version of this story cited a Santa Monica police statements that the arrested suspect intended harm at the Los Angeles Pride parade. Police now say that was \"a misstatement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SANTA MONICA -- An Indiana man armed with three assault rifles and chemicals used to make explosives was arrested in Southern California on Sunday and told police he was headed to a gay pride parade -- an event that annually draws hundreds of thousands of people, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early morning arrest in Santa Monica of James Wesley Howell, 20, came just a few hours after at least 50 people were shot and killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, though authorities said they had found no evidence of a connection between the suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents called police to report suspicious behavior from Howell, who was parked facing the wrong way in a white sedan, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers arrived they saw an assault rifle sitting in Howell's passenger seat, Santa Monica police Lt. 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They found two more assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and ammunition and a five-gallon bucket with chemicals that could be used to make an explosive device, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks had initially tweeted that Howell told officers he wanted to do harm at the gay pride event, but she later said that tweet was inaccurate, and that Howell only said he was going to the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[As reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gay-pride-la-weapons-20160612-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lt. Saul Rodriguez said later the tweet was a misstatement. He said the suspect told investigators that he was going to the Pride festival but said he did not make additional statements about his intentions. \"It was a misstatement,\" Rodriguez said. \"Unfortunately, she was given incorrect information initially, which indicated that that statement was made; however, that statement never was made. He did indicate that he was planning on going to the Pride festival but beyond anything as far as motives or his intentions that statement was never made nor did any officer receive that statement.\"]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The huge parade and festival known as LA Pride took place later in the day about seven miles away in West Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"N7XY17hL4iE5mcL3VMimUmwt4P9cYjry\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities would answer no further questions on Howell or his motives. The FBI has taken over the lead of the investigation from the local police. Indiana State Police Capt. Dave Bursten referred all questions about the investigation to authorities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook page that is apparently Howell's is full of pictures of a white Acura like the one he was arrested in, and pictures that appear to match the photo police released of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The page's most recent public post, from June 3, shows a photo comparing Adolf Hitler to Hillary Clinton. An anti-Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders photo was posted in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it shows no enmity for gays or membership in any movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The page says he lives in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and he went to high school in nearby Louisville, Kentucky. It says he recently left a job as a security guard, and he now works as an auditor at a company that makes air filtration products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the scene in Santa Monica, police spent the day searching the white four-door Acura sedan still parked facing the wrong direction on a busy thoroughfare in a mostly residential area of the seaside city west of Los Angeles. There was a red plastic gas can near the car and items laid out on a white sheet next to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heriberto Gomez, a lifelong resident who says he watches over the neighborhood, stepped outside at 3 a.m. Sunday and saw the car in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez said the man then ran across the street and hid in bushes and overhanging trees. It appeared the man was looking back at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was looking at him for a minute, for a long minute,\" Gomez said. \"He didn't want to come my way because he seen me standing right here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizers of LA Pride said in a statement before the parade that \"we are heartbroken that so many of our brothers, sisters and allies were lost in this tragic attack.\" Organizers said the tragedy made them all the more determined to continue with plans with heightened security from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our brave founders made this happen to show the world who we are,\" the statement said. \"We will be loud. We will be proud, and we will celebrate in honor of all those lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Oliver of Los Angeles attends the parade every year. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's the early '60s. It’s a Saturday night on the pre-hippie Sunset Strip. It’s a swinging scene, men in sharp suits, women in cocktail dresses. Everybody smokes. In a lounge called The Interlude, they’re squeezing in to see Troy Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’d never imagined myself even having that much talent,” admits Walker. “I was just a singer and I liked showing off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That inclination paid off for Walker, who was raised in Arizona. As a young boy, he first realized his divine gift of song during a Christmas worship service in his hometown of Phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Mommy wanted a girl, Daddy wanted a boy, now they’re both happy. I played with it rather than let it bring me down. And it worked fine because I was never out of work, never have been.'\u003ccite>Troy Walker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I remember on a Christmas cantata in church, our choir director Mr. Beasley had me sing ‘O Holy Night,’” Walker says. “I had a very high soprano voice. I sang it and I looked at my mother and she was crying and Mr. Beasley stood up and said, ‘God has sent us an angel.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to Hollywood in 1958, “just to come out to Hollywood. I understood I could be a little freer, especially in my personal life, so I came out to Hollywood to see if that could happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I walked into a bar on Hollywood Boulevard, and the young man behind the piano asked me if I could sing. I’d sing in school, so I said, ‘Yep,’ and he gave me the microphone and I sang a song. I was only 19. And the owner came over and asked me if I could come in every night and sing a couple songs and he’d give me 10 bucks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251447759\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time I was downright broke, and I asked if I could get an advance because my rent was due. At that time it was nine bucks a week. He said, ‘Don’t try and con me, kid.’ I told him I’d be back the next night. That’s how it started, and it’s been that way ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker was, to put it mildly, a very pretty boy, something that he learned to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right.’ It just worked for me,” he says. “‘Mommy wanted a girl, Daddy wanted a boy, now they’re both happy.’ I played with it rather than let it bring me down. And it worked fine because I was never out of work, never have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flamboyant young Walker developed a set of current hits and standards recorded by artists he admired like Judy Garland, Johnny Ray and Johnny Mathis. His chops were formidable; his ability to sell a song and give his all to the crowd was immense. He released his first album in 1962. His second -- and last -- record came out two years later, and while neither took off, his reputation as a must-see live act flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896794 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg\" alt=\"Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'" he says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-400x471.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-1180x1390.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-960x1131.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'\" he says. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was on fire, packing rooms and drawing names like Ricky Nelson, Natalie Wood, Ronald Reagan and Elvis himself. He shared the stage with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Pat Collins the Hip Hypnotist. He joked, he trash talked, he worked risque but never mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a dazzling, flamboyant attraction, meaning he was as openly gay as an act could be in those closeted times. But it wasn’t really camp, it was just who he was. And that was something that may have hindered his professional growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often wondered why the big [career] push wasn’t made and I just kind of decided, well, nobody wanted at that time to affiliate themselves with a somewhat effete, somewhat maybe feminine man. It was that age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker survived, playing all manner of nightspots. For years he was an attraction at the legendary Palomino Club in North Hollywood. “I became the headliner at the Palomino,” he states. “[Owner] Tommy Thomas called me and asked me to come and I said, ‘They’ll stone me,’ 'cause it was very country. But I wound up there for 17 years every Tuesday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was that five years ago he began singing at Cody Bryant’s Viva Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Burbank that’s become the singer’s monthly gig, backed by guitarist Bryant’s house band for the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So who does he draw?” asks Bryant. “For some people it’s a freak show, [there’s] some intelligentsia, some hipsters. He cuts a funny path across a lot of personality types. But he’s infinitely human, and that’s what translates to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes people like Jan Damiano, who go way back with Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me to do the twist on Sunset Strip at the Interlude,” she says after a recent Walker set at the Cantina. “My husband and I went there and we learned the twist, and we were twisting everywhere, Miami and everywhere, but I learned from him. It’s a long time ago! He loves his audience. And that’s why people come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-400x239.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I let them know I was there for them,” says Walker of his audience. “A lot of performers don’t project that. They don’t have that thing about letting them know you really are grateful they’re there, and that’s a feeling you have to have to be a good performer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Kenny, the actor/comedian and voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Walker follower for years, catching him whenever he can. Like snowflakes and fingerprints, Walker’s sets are never the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really never know what you’re going to get with Troy,” offers Kenny. “A lot of it seems to depend on what mood he’s in and what he’s going through and what songs are resonating with him on a given night, so the shows are kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between. What’s not to like?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker uses no set list, but moves from song to song seemingly on a whim, rarely finishing anything. You might hear a chorus, a couple verses, and then it’s on to something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music follows him,” says Damiano. “He goes where he wants, he segues on a word. He sails. He floats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to kind of guess,” offers Bryant. “You have to listen, you have to make your ears go out 3 feet on the side of your head to figure out where in the hell he’s going to go. And to make him look good. You want him to look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896846\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896846 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-800x567.jpg\" alt='Actor Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Troy Walker fan for years calling his shows \"kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Troy Walker fan for years, calling his shows \"kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between.\" \u003ccite>(Brad Barket/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And really, that’s the thing. Everybody’s rooting for Troy. He’s lovable. He’s impish. He’s a pussycat who’s had a lot of lives but no grand strategy for success. His 50-year career vision has never extended beyond the last set of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t say that I had a real plan,” Walker admits. “I just came to Hollywood and people asked me what I did and I said, ‘I’m a singer.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he does it all for the nice people out there in the dark who have been filling the seats—or most of them—for this unique act that never ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give a meaning to my life,” Walker says of his loyal followers. “They want me, even if nobody else does, and I guess that’s the way I qualify what I do. People have no idea, they lay things out like ego and selfishness, but it’s not that at all. If every night you get 20 or 30 minutes of this [he claps] and standing ovations periodically, and you say, “Wow. I’m worth something.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this Wednesday night in Burbank, for a handful of hipsters, drinkers and gray-haired women he’s turned briefly back into 25-year-olds, he’s worth a lot.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I walked into a bar on Hollywood Boulevard, and the young man behind the piano asked me if I could sing. I’d sing in school, so I said, ‘Yep,’ and he gave me the microphone and I sang a song. I was only 19. 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That’s how it started, and it’s been that way ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker was, to put it mildly, a very pretty boy, something that he learned to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right.’ It just worked for me,” he says. “‘Mommy wanted a girl, Daddy wanted a boy, now they’re both happy.’ I played with it rather than let it bring me down. And it worked fine because I was never out of work, never have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flamboyant young Walker developed a set of current hits and standards recorded by artists he admired like Judy Garland, Johnny Ray and Johnny Mathis. His chops were formidable; his ability to sell a song and give his all to the crowd was immense. He released his first album in 1962. His second -- and last -- record came out two years later, and while neither took off, his reputation as a must-see live act flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896794 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg\" alt=\"Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'" he says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-400x471.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-1180x1390.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-960x1131.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'\" he says. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was on fire, packing rooms and drawing names like Ricky Nelson, Natalie Wood, Ronald Reagan and Elvis himself. He shared the stage with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Pat Collins the Hip Hypnotist. He joked, he trash talked, he worked risque but never mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a dazzling, flamboyant attraction, meaning he was as openly gay as an act could be in those closeted times. But it wasn’t really camp, it was just who he was. And that was something that may have hindered his professional growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often wondered why the big [career] push wasn’t made and I just kind of decided, well, nobody wanted at that time to affiliate themselves with a somewhat effete, somewhat maybe feminine man. It was that age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker survived, playing all manner of nightspots. For years he was an attraction at the legendary Palomino Club in North Hollywood. “I became the headliner at the Palomino,” he states. “[Owner] Tommy Thomas called me and asked me to come and I said, ‘They’ll stone me,’ 'cause it was very country. But I wound up there for 17 years every Tuesday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was that five years ago he began singing at Cody Bryant’s Viva Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Burbank that’s become the singer’s monthly gig, backed by guitarist Bryant’s house band for the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So who does he draw?” asks Bryant. “For some people it’s a freak show, [there’s] some intelligentsia, some hipsters. He cuts a funny path across a lot of personality types. But he’s infinitely human, and that’s what translates to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes people like Jan Damiano, who go way back with Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me to do the twist on Sunset Strip at the Interlude,” she says after a recent Walker set at the Cantina. “My husband and I went there and we learned the twist, and we were twisting everywhere, Miami and everywhere, but I learned from him. It’s a long time ago! He loves his audience. And that’s why people come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-400x239.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I let them know I was there for them,” says Walker of his audience. “A lot of performers don’t project that. They don’t have that thing about letting them know you really are grateful they’re there, and that’s a feeling you have to have to be a good performer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Kenny, the actor/comedian and voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Walker follower for years, catching him whenever he can. Like snowflakes and fingerprints, Walker’s sets are never the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really never know what you’re going to get with Troy,” offers Kenny. “A lot of it seems to depend on what mood he’s in and what he’s going through and what songs are resonating with him on a given night, so the shows are kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between. What’s not to like?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker uses no set list, but moves from song to song seemingly on a whim, rarely finishing anything. You might hear a chorus, a couple verses, and then it’s on to something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music follows him,” says Damiano. “He goes where he wants, he segues on a word. He sails. He floats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to kind of guess,” offers Bryant. “You have to listen, you have to make your ears go out 3 feet on the side of your head to figure out where in the hell he’s going to go. And to make him look good. 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"content": "\u003cp>Subhi Nahas remembers the exact day when he knew he’d have to leave Syria. It was in the spring of 2012. He was 24, on a bus, going to his university to take a final exam. It was the last exam he needed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says they came up to a checkpoint, and a group of soldiers stopped the bus. They checked the IDs of all the young men, and then they singled out Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what happened next. “They take you to a room, and put you in a chair, where you’re all alone,” he recalls. “The chairs, and the table, and the ground, they’re full of blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250266753″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were Syrian government soldiers. They were cracking down on rebels who opposed the president, Bashar al-Assad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Nahas had nothing to do with the civil war, these soldiers decided to pick on him anyway. They’d noticed that he looked different. He acted effeminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says for 30 minutes they harassed him and called him homophobic names. He was scared for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that moment I was like, feeling that — yeah, that’s the end of it,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t. They let him go without hurting him. But after that, Nahas was too afraid to go back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came back home I was saying to myself, ‘What’s the point of staying in Syria, while you cannot complete your studies?’ Without this you cannot do anything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dangers at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soldiers who messed with Nahas were from the Assad regime. But a few months later, rebels opposing Assad took root in Nahas’ city, Maarat al-Numan. They belonged to al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of al-Qaida. For Nahas, they were even worse than the regime. He remembers them announcing that they would “cleanse the city of sodomites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-400x282.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-960x677.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime. \u003ccite>(Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I cannot go to university, I cannot go out,” Nahas remembers. “So I have to stay home all the time. But, then, staying at home was not safe, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many LGBT people who become refugees, Nahas felt threatened by his own family. His parents never accepted the idea of a gay son. Nahas lived at home with them, but his father didn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we did not even say good morning to each other,” says Nahas. “Even when we speak, he never expressed his emotions or feelings … except when he’s really angry and he wanted to express how angry he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, they were in the kitchen. They had a fight, and his father lost his temper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grabbed my head from the back and he just smashed it into the kitchen counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas still has a scar on his chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not safe outside and you’re not safe inside, and your family will not protect you from your father because your father has anger management issues, you better run,” Nahas says. “Nobody’s going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He immediately made plans to cross the border into Lebanon, where he had a friend he could stay with. This journey was legal, but he had heard horrible stories about gay people who were raped as they tried to get across. So he bribed a taxi driver to deal with all the checkpoints. Nahas sat in the back of the cab and pretended he couldn’t talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Refugee Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stayed in Lebanon for six months. And then he moved to Turkey, where it was a little easier to be gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different, completely different experience,” says Nahas, “especially exploring myself, exploring my sexuality, trying to understand my body more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He even went to his first gay pride parade in Istanbul. It was there that he met a lawyer from a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oraminternational.org\">ORAM\u003c/a>, the Organization for Refuge and Migration. They’re based in San Francisco and they advocate for LGBT refugees around the world. He kept the lawyer’s card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my life would be threatened the next week after meeting them,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas started to get threatening phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what you’re doing, promoting this perversion,” Nahas remembers the caller saying, “either you stop, or you deserve to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VFWhWLxAbUZbF0wRZRDw0g0HaFRo6MXy”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He discovered that the caller was a friend of a friend who had joined ISIS. Nahas remembers at one point getting 40 calls in a single hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contacted ORAM, and asked how to get out of the country. They told him about the U.N.’s Refugee Resettlement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian migrants in Turkey have two basic options if they want to settle in another country. They can travel to a country like Germany, hoping they receive asylum, or they can petition the U.N. for resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. resettles only people who are part of a persecuted group. One of those groups is LGBT people. But there are \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\">4.5 million\u003c/a> Syrian refugees. And less than \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/559ce97f9.html\">1 percent\u003c/a> of them are resettled by the U.N.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my case would be, like, really accepted,” says Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process took almost a year. He did interview after interview, screening after screening, until one day the Department of Homeland Security sent him a letter saying, effectively, “Your case has been deferred for further investigation, thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas says this was the hardest part — not knowing if they’d ever get back to him. His friends at ORAM tried to keep his hopes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, calming me, helping me to, you know, digest the whole thing,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then suddenly, with no more explanation than before, he found out that he was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas flew to California on June 4, 2015. He even knew who he was going to live with — an older gay couple in Oakland had agreed to be his sponsors, to host him in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Hertz and his partner gave Nahas a room in their house in North Oakland. He lived there for two months before finding other housing. (Hertz’s partner requested not to be identified for this story).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-400x294.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hertz got involved with LGBT refugee rights five years ago. “Here I am this successful gay lawyer living a liberated life,” says Hertz. “When someone comes forward saying there are gay people in trouble in other countries, how could I say no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had donated time and money to ORAM, but hosting a refugee in his home was a much more personal commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertz says his biggest concerns were “things like, ‘Oh my God, what if he gets here and has a nervous breakdown and locks himself in his room and doesn’t come out for six months? What am I going to \u003cem>do\u003c/em>?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they got along like family. They especially enjoyed cooking Mediterranean food together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Nahas went back to Hertz’s house to prepare an elaborate lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows Hertz the way he learned how to cut a pomegranate without getting juice everywhere. The pomegranate goes on a roasted eggplant dish, which Nahas calls \u003cem>mlatash\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hertz’s commitments as a sponsor was to help Nahas with his paperwork. \u003ca href=\"http://jfcs-eastbay.org/lgbt-refugee-services/\">JFCS East Bay\u003c/a>, Nahas’s official resettlement agency, gave Hertz a list of all the appointments Nahas needed to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hertz wasn’t available, he got his friends to help. Nahas explained why — especially for LGBT refugees — creating that kind of community is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas most refugees might be resettled into a community from their home country, “if you’re an LGBT most of the time you’re escaping from your own community, or you’re escaping from your family, or you have nobody,” says Nahas. “So you need somebody to be with you, and you need somebody to help you in the first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Nahas is working at ORAM — the same organization he reached out to when he was in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows me a poster that he designed with ORAM. It says “You Are Safe Here” in a dozen languages, in rainbow colors. They’re sending it to refugee offices around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas has had a remarkably smooth transition into the United States. Some help came from the government. When they first arrive, refugees get a small stipend, food stamps and health care. And like almost everybody in the refugee program, Nahas is on track to eventually get a green card and U.S. citizenship. But what sets his case apart is the bond he made with Hertz and the local gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good feeling when you really know that somebody cares and loves you this much,” says Nahas. “It’s life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article first appeared at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/gay-and-syrian-one-refugee-s-journey-san-francisco\">\u003cem>KALW.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They belonged to al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of al-Qaida. For Nahas, they were even worse than the regime. He remembers them announcing that they would “cleanse the city of sodomites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-400x282.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-960x677.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime. \u003ccite>(Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I cannot go to university, I cannot go out,” Nahas remembers. “So I have to stay home all the time. But, then, staying at home was not safe, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many LGBT people who become refugees, Nahas felt threatened by his own family. His parents never accepted the idea of a gay son. Nahas lived at home with them, but his father didn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we did not even say good morning to each other,” says Nahas. “Even when we speak, he never expressed his emotions or feelings … except when he’s really angry and he wanted to express how angry he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, they were in the kitchen. They had a fight, and his father lost his temper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grabbed my head from the back and he just smashed it into the kitchen counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas still has a scar on his chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not safe outside and you’re not safe inside, and your family will not protect you from your father because your father has anger management issues, you better run,” Nahas says. “Nobody’s going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He immediately made plans to cross the border into Lebanon, where he had a friend he could stay with. This journey was legal, but he had heard horrible stories about gay people who were raped as they tried to get across. So he bribed a taxi driver to deal with all the checkpoints. Nahas sat in the back of the cab and pretended he couldn’t talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Refugee Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stayed in Lebanon for six months. And then he moved to Turkey, where it was a little easier to be gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different, completely different experience,” says Nahas, “especially exploring myself, exploring my sexuality, trying to understand my body more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He even went to his first gay pride parade in Istanbul. It was there that he met a lawyer from a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oraminternational.org\">ORAM\u003c/a>, the Organization for Refuge and Migration. They’re based in San Francisco and they advocate for LGBT refugees around the world. He kept the lawyer’s card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my life would be threatened the next week after meeting them,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas started to get threatening phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what you’re doing, promoting this perversion,” Nahas remembers the caller saying, “either you stop, or you deserve to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He discovered that the caller was a friend of a friend who had joined ISIS. Nahas remembers at one point getting 40 calls in a single hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contacted ORAM, and asked how to get out of the country. They told him about the U.N.’s Refugee Resettlement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian migrants in Turkey have two basic options if they want to settle in another country. They can travel to a country like Germany, hoping they receive asylum, or they can petition the U.N. for resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. resettles only people who are part of a persecuted group. One of those groups is LGBT people. But there are \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\">4.5 million\u003c/a> Syrian refugees. And less than \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/559ce97f9.html\">1 percent\u003c/a> of them are resettled by the U.N.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my case would be, like, really accepted,” says Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process took almost a year. He did interview after interview, screening after screening, until one day the Department of Homeland Security sent him a letter saying, effectively, “Your case has been deferred for further investigation, thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas says this was the hardest part — not knowing if they’d ever get back to him. His friends at ORAM tried to keep his hopes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, calming me, helping me to, you know, digest the whole thing,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then suddenly, with no more explanation than before, he found out that he was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas flew to California on June 4, 2015. He even knew who he was going to live with — an older gay couple in Oakland had agreed to be his sponsors, to host him in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Hertz and his partner gave Nahas a room in their house in North Oakland. He lived there for two months before finding other housing. (Hertz’s partner requested not to be identified for this story).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-400x294.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hertz got involved with LGBT refugee rights five years ago. “Here I am this successful gay lawyer living a liberated life,” says Hertz. “When someone comes forward saying there are gay people in trouble in other countries, how could I say no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had donated time and money to ORAM, but hosting a refugee in his home was a much more personal commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertz says his biggest concerns were “things like, ‘Oh my God, what if he gets here and has a nervous breakdown and locks himself in his room and doesn’t come out for six months? What am I going to \u003cem>do\u003c/em>?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they got along like family. They especially enjoyed cooking Mediterranean food together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Nahas went back to Hertz’s house to prepare an elaborate lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows Hertz the way he learned how to cut a pomegranate without getting juice everywhere. The pomegranate goes on a roasted eggplant dish, which Nahas calls \u003cem>mlatash\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hertz’s commitments as a sponsor was to help Nahas with his paperwork. \u003ca href=\"http://jfcs-eastbay.org/lgbt-refugee-services/\">JFCS East Bay\u003c/a>, Nahas’s official resettlement agency, gave Hertz a list of all the appointments Nahas needed to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hertz wasn’t available, he got his friends to help. Nahas explained why — especially for LGBT refugees — creating that kind of community is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas most refugees might be resettled into a community from their home country, “if you’re an LGBT most of the time you’re escaping from your own community, or you’re escaping from your family, or you have nobody,” says Nahas. “So you need somebody to be with you, and you need somebody to help you in the first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Nahas is working at ORAM — the same organization he reached out to when he was in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows me a poster that he designed with ORAM. It says “You Are Safe Here” in a dozen languages, in rainbow colors. They’re sending it to refugee offices around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas has had a remarkably smooth transition into the United States. Some help came from the government. When they first arrive, refugees get a small stipend, food stamps and health care. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Central California school district settled a free speech lawsuit brought by a high school junior who was sent home for refusing to change out of a T-shirt that said, \"Nobody Knows I'm a Lesbian.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal approved Tuesday night requires the Manteca Unified School District, which serves the cities of Stockton, Lathrop and Manteca, to adopt a policy clarifying that students may wear clothing with statements celebrating their or their classmates' cultural identities, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is the latest in a long line of legal disputes over the clothing messages that school and college officials may prohibit for the stated purpose of maintaining discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor Victor, 16, and her mother sued two Sierra High School administrators who told the girl in August that her shirt was an improper display of sexuality that violated the school's dress code and might be disruptive. A teacher had her called to the office when she showed up in the shirt, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I knew that rule did not exist, and I knew that was my free speech right to wear that shirt to school.'\u003ccite>Taylor Victor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The law on this is very clear: Public schools can't censor the personal beliefs of students,\" ACLU attorney Linnea Nelson said. \"The message of Taylor's T-shirt expresses the most fundamental type of speech already protected by the First Amendment, the California Constitution and the California education code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the settlement, school administrators deny violating Victor's free speech rights and they and the district deny any wrongdoing. The school board approved the required dress code updates Tuesday night, spokeswoman Victoria Brunn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students continue to be supported in their right for self-expression in all of our high schools,\" Brunn said in a statement. \"Our No.1 priority continues to be the ability to keep our kids safe physically and emotionally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor, who was open at school about identifying as a lesbian, said she had reviewed the district's dress code before deciding to wear the shirt. Not finding any rules prohibiting pro-gay messages, she says she chose to go home instead of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1da1K7aKgoatRwxVSJL8Rq0ML9vn4ssX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that rule did not exist, and I knew that was my free speech right to wear that shirt to school,\" Victor said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@ACLU_NorCal/i-sued-my-high-school-for-censorship-and-won-521b400b59b8#.2710nmfb6\" target=\"_blank\">has published a blog post for the ACLU of Northern California\u003c/a> titled, \"I Sued My High School for Censorship and Won.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high school senior in South Carolina was suspended in September for also refusing to change out of a T-shirt with the same phrase as Victor's. The school district ended up overturning the punishment, saying the shirt bothered some adults but wasn't a problem for other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other recent cases, Ohio University last year agreed to revise its student conduct code and pay $32,000 to a student who sued after a campus group was told not to wear T-shirts bearing a sexually suggestive double entendre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, a Connecticut school district agreed to let a high school student wear a T-shirt with a slash mark through a gay pride rainbow after facing the threat of legal action from the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal courts have allowed some limits on student speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that an Alaska school acted within its discretion to discourage illegal drug use when it suspended a student who displayed a banner saying \"Bong Hits 4 Jesus\" at an Olympic torch relay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in 2014 that administrators at a Northern California high school plagued by racial strife lawfully banned T-shirts bearing the American flag while the campus commemorated \"Mexican Heritage Day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Central California settlement in the works last week, Victor was given the go-ahead to wear the disputed T-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wore the shirt on the first day I was allowed to,\" she said. \"My mom bought me the same shirt in a different color, and she bought me a sweat shirt that says 'Dare to be Different' in rainbow colors.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://lexingtonclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lexington Club\u003c/a> has been serving San Francisco’s lesbian women since 1997. It’s one of the few places that community in the city can call their own, and now they must say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some people, \"The Lex\" is more than a bar -- it's a community space, billed as \"Your Friendly Neighborhood Dyke Bar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been open every night, even on holidays, and never charged a cover. It hosts shows, parties, community meetings and political events. New DJs could try their hand at mixing and new bands were always welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It was pretty exciting but very doable back then [in the '90s]. My rent at the bar was cheaper than my rent on my apartment.'\u003ccite>Lila Thirkield,\u003cbr>\nThe Lexington Club's owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Owner Lila Thirkield says it’s been an important place for young women moving to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are going to be losing home base,” Thirkield says, adding that the Lex has been a safe space for people to experiment and figure things out. “What somebody looks like when they roll into town and what they look like a year later is completely different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirkield says she is closing because her clientele has been forced to leave the city due to rising costs. It's situated at the corner of 19th and Lexington streets, near Valencia, a part of the city that used to be a well-known LGBT-friendly community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We served what was a huge queer women neighborhood in the '90s,\" Thirkield says, \"and now I find it to be largely different from that. I think that’s why our sales have slowed down ... We are not just losing bars but the cultural edges with what’s changing here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the bar looks like it will close, the East Bay Express \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/sfs-last-lesbian-bar-is-not-going-gentle-into-that-good-night/Content?oid=4253564\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a> on an effort to preserve the place's memory: \u003ca href=\"http://lexingtonclubarchivalproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lexington Club Archival Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirkield opened the Lexington Club when she was just 25 years old, when the city seemed much different, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty exciting but very doable back then. My rent at the bar was cheaper than my rent on my apartment,” says Thirkield. “There were people flooding through the doors as soon as we opened them. It was clearly something this city needed and wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lexington Club has been busier the last couple months as people have come to say their goodbyes. Bartenders have seen a lot of old faces come back -- some people have even flown in from out of town, Thirkield says. She was nervous to make the announcement last fall, but says she's seen a great outpouring of love from the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lex is having its final party Saturday. Its last night of service will be April 30.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When state Attorney General Kamala Harris issued a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-statement-proposed-ballot-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> Wednesday indicating that she would ask a court to allow her to ignore a proposed anti-gay ballot measure, legal experts I talked to scoffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Harris' efforts to avoid writing the ballot title and summary for the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0008%20%28Sodomy%29_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">\"Sodomite Suppression Act\u003c/a>,\" some election law experts expressed doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's generally not seen as discretionary to write the title and summary,\" said Rick Hasen of UC Irvine Law School. \"You can't just deny it on grounds that it's unconstitutional,\" which the proposed ballot measure clearly is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, the ballot measure would fine people $1 million each time they promoted \"sodomistic propaganda,\" for good measure adding that the offender should get \"imprisonment up to 10 years, and/or (be) expelled from the boundaries of the state of California for up to life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think that's crazy? There's also this: Anyone who \"willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's better to write the ballot title and summary because a court orders you to than to do it voluntarily,\" said Hasen. In other words, it's good politics to be able to say you tried to keep it off the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area election lawyer \u003ca href=\"http://web.nmgovlaw.com/professionals/james-r-parrinello/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Parrinello \u003c/a>said: Not so fast. At first, he was skeptical of legal maneuvers to keep the anti-gay measure off the ballot. \"I suppose I could cobble together a legal reasoning,\" Parrinello said, while adding he could more easily imagine a decision denying Harris' request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upon further reflection, Parrinello thought Harris might have some legal ground to stand on. He cites two California cases where courts allowed local election officials to ignore local ballot measures submitted for title and summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was a \u003ca href=\"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1010492.html\" target=\"_blank\"> 2006-08 case from Ojai, \u003c/a>where City Attorney Monte L. Widders did just what the California attorney general did this week -- ask for judicial permission relieving him of his duty to write the titles and summaries. In that instance, the proposals involved chain stores and affordable housing. The lower court denied Widders' request to ignore the measures, but an appellate court\u003cem> reversed\u003c/em> it in favor of the city attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1224446.html\" target=\"_blank\">other case \u003c/a>Parrinello cites is from 1996-99 in Shasta County. In that one, county counsel Karen Keating Jahr sought relief from writing the ballot title and summary of a measure allowing voters to adjust the salaries of Shasta County's Board of Supervisors. The trial court sided with Jahr's contention that she did not have to write a title and summary of a ballot measure that was clearly unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris' request is now before a Superior Court judge in Sacramento. No matter the outcome, it's unclear whether the Orange County attorney pushing the measure will be able to collect the necessary signatures to place it on the 2016 ballot. And even then, voters would not likely support it. And if they did, it would no doubt be declared unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isn't direct democracy grand?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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