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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131572\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131572 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Brendan_Eich_Mozilla_Foundation_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LGBT rights advocates have been on a considerable roll the last few years. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court victories\u003c/a>, unprecedentedly favorable \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/support-for-same-sex-marriage-hits-new-high-half-say-constitution-guarantees-right/2014/03/04/f737e87e-a3e5-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion polls\u003c/a>, pop cultural \u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/looking#/\" target=\"_blank\">milestones\u003c/a>, and perhaps the most underrated achievement in contemporary American life -- the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/03/harvey-milk-stamp/\" target=\"_blank\">imprimatur\u003c/a> of the United States Postal Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, you might ask: Are we at the point where opposition to LGBT rights is so dépassé as to be unacceptable in the public sphere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can at least consider that possibility after the resignation of Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla, due to public pressure over a 2008 contribution he made to the campaign of Proposition 8 -- the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, later thrown out by an appellate court. Mozilla initially defended itself by \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/29/mozilla-supports-lgbt-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">publicly declarin\u003c/a>g its \"official support of equality and inclusion for LGBT people,\" but the furor did not die, gaining more momentum after the dating website OkCupid called on its users to dump Mozilla's Firefox browser because Eich was \"an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes right after another Silicon Valley exec, Jacquelline Fuller of Google, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/world-vision-google-board-member-resigns-gay-marriage_n_5085554.html?utm_hp_ref=religion\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a> from the board of World Vision, a Christian aid group, after its U.S. affiliate \u003ca href=\"http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">reversed a short-lived policy\u003c/a> of hiring Christians in legal, same-sex marriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Eich's resignation yesterday, KQED's Charla Bear \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/mozilla-ceo-resigns-over\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to tech pundit Kara Swisher\u003c/a>, who thought Eich's failure to apologize for the donation or to overtly recant his position spurred people inside the company to favor his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some opinions published in the aftermath of Eich's departure. Perhaps the most interesting comes from Andrew Sullivan, a longtime supporter of same-sex rights. Sullivan was fairly scathing in two posts criticizing the pressure put on Mozilla, and which he titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hounding of a Heretic\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop. 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. ... Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in another \u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-a-heretic-ctd/\" target=\"_blank\">post \u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He did not understand that in order to be a CEO of a company, you have to renounce your heresy! There is only one permissible opinion at Mozilla, and all dissidents must be purged! Yep, that’s left-liberal tolerance in a nut-shell. No, he wasn’t a victim of government censorship or intimidation. He was a victim of the free market in which people can choose to express their opinions by boycotts, free speech and the like. He still has his full First Amendment rights. But what we’re talking about is the obvious and ugly intolerance of parts of the gay movement, who have reacted to years of being subjected to social obloquy by returning the favor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sullivan notes that his \"in-tray is inundated with your dissents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one of them, from HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-at-Large Michelangelo Signorile, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Andrew Sullivan, 'Left-Liberal Intolerance' Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(I)t wasn't the Prop 8 contribution, and Eich's refusal to renounce it, that eventually did Eich in. He was \u003ca href=\"http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/mozilla-is-messy/\" target=\"_hplink\">being defended\u003c/a> by company executives last week and throughout the early part of this week, even as the dating site OKCupid \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/03/okcupid-blocks-firefox-users-over-ceo-brendan-eichs-anti-gay-views.html%20Edit\" target=\"_hplink\">had urged users\u003c/a> to boycott Firefox. Eich even \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/04/eichint.html\" target=\"_hplink\">gave an interview\u003c/a> on Tuesday suggesting he was staying put. Eich only announced he was stepping down after it was revealed late Wednesday that he'd \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controversial-mozilla-ceo-made-donations-right-wing-candidates-brendan-eich\" target=\"_hplink\">given money\u003c/a> to Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign in 1992, and later to Ron Paul's campaign. Suddenly, in addition to defending a CEO who gave money to homophobic efforts, Mozilla would have to defend a CEO who supported Buchanan, a far-right extremist and isolationist who's been accused of racist and anti-Semitic attacks, and who also was, rightly, driven off MSNBC -- though that took \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/17/427875/why-msnbc-dumped-pat-buchanan-his-10-most-outrageous-statements/\" target=\"_hplink\">years longer\u003c/a> to accomplish than the few weeks it took to purge Alec Baldwin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More editorials from around the Web:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\u003c/a> (Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eich wasn't a prominent pusher of Prop. 8. He didn't mix his politics with business, in which case critics would have grounds to cite the nexus between Eich's personal beliefs and corporate success. He wrote a personal check for $1,000. In tech circles, that's snack money....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, winning has made some advocates ... less tolerant, not more so. It's not enough that they won, they have to make opponents grovel in penance. No need for stockades in 2014 when you can dangle stock options and flame nonbelievers via Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's like political time travel. Advocates demand that public figures renounce their 2008 opposition to same-sex marriage as illegitimate. If \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Barack+Obama%22\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Hillary+Clinton%22\">Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> could do it, surely soulless CEOs can do it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me posit that there were some antigay bigots who supported Prop. 8. But there also were a lot of Californians who wrestled with the issue but chose to stick with a more traditional conclusion. A yes vote didn't mean they hate their gay friends and family members. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just a Reminder: The Campaign for Prop 8 Was Unprecedentedly Cruel\u003c/a> (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Prop 8 is now dead, and because its passage was largely overshadowed by President Barack Obama’s election victory, it’s easy to forget the vicious tactics of the pro-Prop 8 campaign. Or, I should say, it’s easy to forget them if you’re not gay—because almost every gay person I know remembers the passage of Prop 8 as the most traumatic and degrading anti-gay event in recent American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The tactics used by pro-Prop 8 campaigners were not merely homophobic. They were laser-focused to exploit Californians’ deepest and most irrational fears about gay people, indoctrinating an entire state with cruelly anti-gay propaganda. Early on, Prop 8’s supporters decided to focus their campaign primarily on children, stoking parents’ fears about gay people brainwashing their kids with pro-gay messages or, implicitly, turning their children gay. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article with commercials\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_25489008/quinn-brendan-eich-mozillas-former-chief-executive-needed\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Quinn, Mozilla's former chief executive, needed to tell us more\u003c/a> (Michelle Quinn, San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm sorry to see Mozilla's Brendan Eich go, but in this era of transparency, he didn't do enough to save his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He failed to realize that these days, the CEO of a tech company is more like a politician than a business executive, operating in the glare of intense public scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in not explaining why he made a $1,000 donation to support Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, or clarifying his views now, he let the bubbling controversy over his stance fester and reach a point in which his only option was to step down....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people will say a mob drummed him out of the Internet village. That intolerance and political correctness ruled the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not it. Like an elected official, he needed to say more about who he is, to earn credibility. He needed to do that for himself and for Mozilla. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_25489008/quinn-brendan-eich-mozillas-former-chief-executive-needed\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Purge the Bigots\u003c/a> (William Saletan, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of my colleagues are celebrating. They call Eich a bigot who got what he deserved. I agree. But let’s not stop here. If we’re serious about enforcing the new standard, thousands of other employees who donated to the same anti-gay ballot measure must be punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people gave money to the campaign for Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that declared, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” You can download the entire list, via the Los Angeles Times, as a compressed spreadsheet. (Click the link that says, “Download CSV.”) Each row lists the donor’s employer. If you organize the data by company, you can add up the total number of donors and dollars that came from people associated with that company....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-seven companies in the database are linked to more than 1,300 employees who gave nearly $1 million in combined contributions to the campaign for Prop 8. Twenty-five tech companies are linked to 435 employees who gave more than $300,000. Many of these employees gave $1,000 apiece, if not more. Some, like Eich, are probably senior executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do these bigots still have jobs? Let’s go get them....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re serious about taking down corporate officers who supported Proposition 8, and boycotting employers who promote them, we'd better get cracking on the rest of the list. Otherwise, perhaps we should put down the pitchforks. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/okcupids_gay_rights_stunt_has_its_limits_taking_a_deeper_look_at_the_savvy_ploy/\" target=\"_blank\">OkCupid's gay rights stunt has its limits\u003c/a> (Josh Eidelson, Salon)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Eich was an understandable target; consumer pressure on a CEO over a political donation is infinitely more defensible than \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/10/18/kochs_to_workers_vote_mitt_or_else/\">termination\u003c/a> of a lower-level employee over a bumper sticker. But Eich was also an easy target, one who exemplifies the way boycott talk gets focused on whether a CEO shares our personal convictions, rather than on how a company wields its power (it also illustrates the \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/sorry_frank_bruni_liz_cheney_is_no_worse_than_congress/\">special status\u003c/a> of gay marriage in the media). \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/thats_cold_whole_foods_polar_vortex_firing_spurs_chicago_strike/\">Firing\u003c/a> a mom for staying home with her son during the polar vortex is a better reason to boycott Whole Foods than its CEO’s anti-Obamacare O\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/whole-foods-ceo-obamacare-fascism_n_2488029.html\">p-Ed\u003c/a>; Chick-fil-A’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/chick_fil_a_too_sinful_to_fry_chicken/\">alleged efforts\u003c/a>to impose Christian conservatism on its employees should alarm us more than its CEO’s comments to the press. While Eich’s 2008 donation is a legitimate cause for consternation – and a worthier one than, say, a quote to a reporter – it’s a worse basis on which to choose a browser than how the company currently stacks up in its treatment of LGBT employees. The best potential effect of scrutiny over an old donation would be extracting concessions on a company’s current policies and politics.CEOs aren’t gods who earn our fealty or identification based on admiration. Rather, they – and more important, the corporations they represent – are economic and political actors who should be pressured to redirect – or, better, redistribute – their power toward progressive ends. \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/okcupids_gay_rights_stunt_has_its_limits_taking_a_deeper_look_at_the_savvy_ploy/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/03/brendan_eich_why_mozilla_s_ceo_had_to_resign_over_gay_marriage_views.html\" target=\"_blank\">If You're Against Gay Marriage, You're a Bad CEO\u003c/a> (Will Oremus, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The notion that your political views shouldn’t affect your employment is a persuasive one. Where would we be as a democracy if Republicans were barred from jobs at Democrat-led companies, or vice versa?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>But this is different. Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan. It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others. An organization like Mozilla might tolerate that in an underling, and it might even tolerate it in a CTO. But in a CEO—the ultimate decision-maker and public face of an organization—it sends an awful message. That’s doubly so for an organization devoted to openness and freedom on the Web—not to mention one with numerous gay employees...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an even bigger problem for a tech company in Silicon Valley, where competition for top engineers is fierce. Mozilla’s edge over goliaths like Google and Facebook is that it offers employees a chance to work for an organization whose values they can truly believe in. A bigoted boss, no matter how well-meaning, undermines that appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/03/brendan_eich_why_mozilla_s_ceo_had_to_resign_over_gay_marriage_views.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mozillas-gay-marriage-litmus-test-violates-liberal-values/360156/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values\u003c/a> (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for (Eich's) ouster were premised on the notion that all support for Proposition 8 was hateful, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> that a CEO should be judged not just by his or her conduct in the professional realm, but also by political causes he or she supports as a private citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that attitude spreads, it will damage our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider an issue like abortion, which divides the country in a particularly intense way, with opponents earnestly regarding it as the murder of an innocent baby and many abortion-rights supporters earnestly believing that a fetus is not a human life, and that outlawing it is a horrific assault on a woman's bodily autonomy. The political debate over abortion is likely to continue long past all of our deaths. Would American society be better off if stakeholders in various corporations began to investigate leadership's political activities on abortion and to lobby for the termination of anyone who took what they regard to be the immoral, damaging position?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn't difficult to see the wisdom in inculcating the norm that the political and the professional are separate realms, for following it makes so many people and institutions better off in a diverse, pluralistic society. The contrary approach would certainly have a chilling effect on political speech and civic participation, as does Mozilla's behavior toward Eich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its implications are particularly worrisome because whatever you think of gay marriage, the general practice of punishing people in business for bygone political donations is most likely to entrench powerful interests and weaken the ability of the powerless to challenge the status quo. There is very likely hypocrisy at work too. Does anyone doubt that had a business fired a CEO six years ago for making a political donation \u003cem>against\u003c/em> Prop 8, liberals silent during this controversy (or supportive of the resignation) would've argued that contributions have nothing to do with a CEO's ability to do his job? They'd have called that firing an illiberal outrage, but today they're averse to vocally disagreeing with allies. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mozillas-gay-marriage-litmus-test-violates-liberal-values/360156/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131572\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131572 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Brendan_Eich_Mozilla_Foundation_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LGBT rights advocates have been on a considerable roll the last few years. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court victories\u003c/a>, unprecedentedly favorable \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/support-for-same-sex-marriage-hits-new-high-half-say-constitution-guarantees-right/2014/03/04/f737e87e-a3e5-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion polls\u003c/a>, pop cultural \u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/looking#/\" target=\"_blank\">milestones\u003c/a>, and perhaps the most underrated achievement in contemporary American life -- the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/03/harvey-milk-stamp/\" target=\"_blank\">imprimatur\u003c/a> of the United States Postal Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, you might ask: Are we at the point where opposition to LGBT rights is so dépassé as to be unacceptable in the public sphere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can at least consider that possibility after the resignation of Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla, due to public pressure over a 2008 contribution he made to the campaign of Proposition 8 -- the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, later thrown out by an appellate court. Mozilla initially defended itself by \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/29/mozilla-supports-lgbt-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">publicly declarin\u003c/a>g its \"official support of equality and inclusion for LGBT people,\" but the furor did not die, gaining more momentum after the dating website OkCupid called on its users to dump Mozilla's Firefox browser because Eich was \"an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes right after another Silicon Valley exec, Jacquelline Fuller of Google, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/world-vision-google-board-member-resigns-gay-marriage_n_5085554.html?utm_hp_ref=religion\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a> from the board of World Vision, a Christian aid group, after its U.S. affiliate \u003ca href=\"http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">reversed a short-lived policy\u003c/a> of hiring Christians in legal, same-sex marriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Eich's resignation yesterday, KQED's Charla Bear \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/mozilla-ceo-resigns-over\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to tech pundit Kara Swisher\u003c/a>, who thought Eich's failure to apologize for the donation or to overtly recant his position spurred people inside the company to favor his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some opinions published in the aftermath of Eich's departure. Perhaps the most interesting comes from Andrew Sullivan, a longtime supporter of same-sex rights. Sullivan was fairly scathing in two posts criticizing the pressure put on Mozilla, and which he titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hounding of a Heretic\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop. 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. ... Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in another \u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-a-heretic-ctd/\" target=\"_blank\">post \u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He did not understand that in order to be a CEO of a company, you have to renounce your heresy! There is only one permissible opinion at Mozilla, and all dissidents must be purged! Yep, that’s left-liberal tolerance in a nut-shell. No, he wasn’t a victim of government censorship or intimidation. He was a victim of the free market in which people can choose to express their opinions by boycotts, free speech and the like. He still has his full First Amendment rights. But what we’re talking about is the obvious and ugly intolerance of parts of the gay movement, who have reacted to years of being subjected to social obloquy by returning the favor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sullivan notes that his \"in-tray is inundated with your dissents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one of them, from HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-at-Large Michelangelo Signorile, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Andrew Sullivan, 'Left-Liberal Intolerance' Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(I)t wasn't the Prop 8 contribution, and Eich's refusal to renounce it, that eventually did Eich in. He was \u003ca href=\"http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/mozilla-is-messy/\" target=\"_hplink\">being defended\u003c/a> by company executives last week and throughout the early part of this week, even as the dating site OKCupid \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/03/okcupid-blocks-firefox-users-over-ceo-brendan-eichs-anti-gay-views.html%20Edit\" target=\"_hplink\">had urged users\u003c/a> to boycott Firefox. Eich even \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/04/eichint.html\" target=\"_hplink\">gave an interview\u003c/a> on Tuesday suggesting he was staying put. Eich only announced he was stepping down after it was revealed late Wednesday that he'd \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controversial-mozilla-ceo-made-donations-right-wing-candidates-brendan-eich\" target=\"_hplink\">given money\u003c/a> to Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign in 1992, and later to Ron Paul's campaign. Suddenly, in addition to defending a CEO who gave money to homophobic efforts, Mozilla would have to defend a CEO who supported Buchanan, a far-right extremist and isolationist who's been accused of racist and anti-Semitic attacks, and who also was, rightly, driven off MSNBC -- though that took \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/17/427875/why-msnbc-dumped-pat-buchanan-his-10-most-outrageous-statements/\" target=\"_hplink\">years longer\u003c/a> to accomplish than the few weeks it took to purge Alec Baldwin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More editorials from around the Web:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\u003c/a> (Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eich wasn't a prominent pusher of Prop. 8. He didn't mix his politics with business, in which case critics would have grounds to cite the nexus between Eich's personal beliefs and corporate success. He wrote a personal check for $1,000. In tech circles, that's snack money....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, winning has made some advocates ... less tolerant, not more so. It's not enough that they won, they have to make opponents grovel in penance. No need for stockades in 2014 when you can dangle stock options and flame nonbelievers via Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's like political time travel. Advocates demand that public figures renounce their 2008 opposition to same-sex marriage as illegitimate. If \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Barack+Obama%22\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Hillary+Clinton%22\">Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> could do it, surely soulless CEOs can do it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me posit that there were some antigay bigots who supported Prop. 8. But there also were a lot of Californians who wrestled with the issue but chose to stick with a more traditional conclusion. A yes vote didn't mean they hate their gay friends and family members. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just a Reminder: The Campaign for Prop 8 Was Unprecedentedly Cruel\u003c/a> (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Prop 8 is now dead, and because its passage was largely overshadowed by President Barack Obama’s election victory, it’s easy to forget the vicious tactics of the pro-Prop 8 campaign. Or, I should say, it’s easy to forget them if you’re not gay—because almost every gay person I know remembers the passage of Prop 8 as the most traumatic and degrading anti-gay event in recent American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The tactics used by pro-Prop 8 campaigners were not merely homophobic. They were laser-focused to exploit Californians’ deepest and most irrational fears about gay people, indoctrinating an entire state with cruelly anti-gay propaganda. Early on, Prop 8’s supporters decided to focus their campaign primarily on children, stoking parents’ fears about gay people brainwashing their kids with pro-gay messages or, implicitly, turning their children gay. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article with commercials\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_25489008/quinn-brendan-eich-mozillas-former-chief-executive-needed\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Quinn, Mozilla's former chief executive, needed to tell us more\u003c/a> (Michelle Quinn, San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm sorry to see Mozilla's Brendan Eich go, but in this era of transparency, he didn't do enough to save his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He failed to realize that these days, the CEO of a tech company is more like a politician than a business executive, operating in the glare of intense public scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in not explaining why he made a $1,000 donation to support Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, or clarifying his views now, he let the bubbling controversy over his stance fester and reach a point in which his only option was to step down....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people will say a mob drummed him out of the Internet village. 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If we’re serious about enforcing the new standard, thousands of other employees who donated to the same anti-gay ballot measure must be punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people gave money to the campaign for Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that declared, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” You can download the entire list, via the Los Angeles Times, as a compressed spreadsheet. (Click the link that says, “Download CSV.”) Each row lists the donor’s employer. If you organize the data by company, you can add up the total number of donors and dollars that came from people associated with that company....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-seven companies in the database are linked to more than 1,300 employees who gave nearly $1 million in combined contributions to the campaign for Prop 8. Twenty-five tech companies are linked to 435 employees who gave more than $300,000. Many of these employees gave $1,000 apiece, if not more. 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But Eich was also an easy target, one who exemplifies the way boycott talk gets focused on whether a CEO shares our personal convictions, rather than on how a company wields its power (it also illustrates the \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/sorry_frank_bruni_liz_cheney_is_no_worse_than_congress/\">special status\u003c/a> of gay marriage in the media). \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/thats_cold_whole_foods_polar_vortex_firing_spurs_chicago_strike/\">Firing\u003c/a> a mom for staying home with her son during the polar vortex is a better reason to boycott Whole Foods than its CEO’s anti-Obamacare O\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/whole-foods-ceo-obamacare-fascism_n_2488029.html\">p-Ed\u003c/a>; Chick-fil-A’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/chick_fil_a_too_sinful_to_fry_chicken/\">alleged efforts\u003c/a>to impose Christian conservatism on its employees should alarm us more than its CEO’s comments to the press. While Eich’s 2008 donation is a legitimate cause for consternation – and a worthier one than, say, a quote to a reporter – it’s a worse basis on which to choose a browser than how the company currently stacks up in its treatment of LGBT employees. The best potential effect of scrutiny over an old donation would be extracting concessions on a company’s current policies and politics.CEOs aren’t gods who earn our fealty or identification based on admiration. 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Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan. It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others. An organization like Mozilla might tolerate that in an underling, and it might even tolerate it in a CTO. But in a CEO—the ultimate decision-maker and public face of an organization—it sends an awful message. That’s doubly so for an organization devoted to openness and freedom on the Web—not to mention one with numerous gay employees...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an even bigger problem for a tech company in Silicon Valley, where competition for top engineers is fierce. Mozilla’s edge over goliaths like Google and Facebook is that it offers employees a chance to work for an organization whose values they can truly believe in. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-131495\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/harveymilk.jpg\" alt=\"harveymilk\" width=\"383\" height=\"600\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So yesterday this \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TPM/status/451475759228809216\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet\u003c/a> comes through from the political site Talking Points Memo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Harvey Milk stamp will be first to feature an openly gay elected official (PHOTO): \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/APQUoFRjOI\">http://t.co/APQUoFRjOI\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TPM/statuses/451475759228809216\">April 2, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Clicking through to the \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/harvey-milk-stamp?utm_content=buffer986d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">story\u003c/a>, there's a great big picture of what is purportedly the new Harvey Milk stamp; the U.S. Postal Service said last October that it would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Postal-Service-to-issue-Harvey-Milk-stamp-4888960.php\" target=\"_blank\">honor the slain San Francisco supervisor and gay civil rights leader\u003c/a>, but did not release a design or say when the stamp would be available. (\"I'm sure the right-wing homophobes will probably warn their kids not to lick it,\" San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a former Milk associate, said at the time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only thing -- the post cites a philatelist (if we can say that word) website, \u003ca href=\"http://www.linns.com/news/breaking-stamp-news/332/Harvey-Milk-stamp-design-revealed\" target=\"_blank\">Linns.com\u003c/a>, as the source of the news. Some LGBT websites also put up \u003ca href=\"https://news.google.com/news?ncl=d1AWj8h0m85eZxMT5eH3MdmwQ3OoM&q=harvey+milk+stamp&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aaQ9U8rQD6rqyQGM-4DADw&ved=0CDQQqgIwAA\" target=\"_blank\">posts about the stamp\u003c/a>, but they all cite the same Linns item, which also states, \"The stamp will be issued on Harvey Milk Day, May 22, in a location or locations yet to be determined. Both Washington, D.C., and San Francisco are potential first-day cities.\" (Update: \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/harvey-milk-stamp-unveiled\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC\u003c/a>, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"273bd408989b6275b900908d64c2684b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a USPS spokesperson told us over email, \"We have nothing to announce at this time. Please check back ... within a week or two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK. We asked Jay Bigalke, author of the post and online editor at Linns: What gives? How'd he get hold of the stamp?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish I could share with you extra details, but everything we know up (till) today is in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.linns.com/news/breaking-stamp-news/332/Harvey-Milk-stamp-design-revealed\" target=\"_blank\">story\u003c/a>. … That's the Harvey Milk stamp image, but I can't reveal my source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently there's a postage stamp Deep Throat out there, leaking like a sieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Bigalke if the stamp would be popular among collectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stamp collectors typically collect stamps to fill spaces in their albums, so, yes, it is expected that they will buy this stamp,\" he said. \"So far as the general public is concerned, this stamp might not be as popular as, for example, the Harry Potter stamp, because Harry Potter is better known and is a hugely popular topic. But who knows? We won’t know until the stamp has been on sale for a while and we’ve seen sales figures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honoring Milk on a stamp was the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.change.org/petitions/honor-harvey-milk-s-legacy-with-a-usps-stamp\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> circulated online almost three years ago. The petition accumulated 10,000 signatures in two months.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/d.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/d.jpg\" alt=\"Deanna Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of competitors in gay rodeos across the country. Photo: courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of competitors in gay rodeos across the country. Photo: Courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matthew Hansen, \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/03/25/gay-competitors-rodeo/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To flip a 700-pound cow off its feet and onto the ground, start with the mouth. Find the space between its teeth, on the rubbery, wet gums, and hook your fingers inside. Or go for a headlock. Or wedge a hip into the soft space between its neck and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna Trujillo-James recommends trying it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has four pairs of hats, five pairs of boots, good-luck jeans and good-luck shirts. On weekends, she will drive from her home in Oakland to a beaten-up rodeo ground off the highway in Morgan Hill, sign a waiver, and tussle with cattle for hours. At parties, when people ask her hobbies, she tells them, “I wrestle steers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of amateur contestants who, every February through October, suit up for the gay rodeo circuit, a series of local rodeo competitions that span gay communities across the nation, including an arena near the famed Las Vegas Strip and the state fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of eight months, competitors work to collect enough points to get the coveted letter in the mail, inviting them to October’s World Gay Rodeo Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. There, the champions walk away with prize money, bragging rights and a collection of the wide, shiny belt buckles that mark rodeo elite in any league. The spectators cheer and party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To compete there,” Trujillo-James said, “takes your breath away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130359\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. Photo: courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. Photo: Courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Such moments of grace aren’t common in the sport. Rodeo is an often muddy, sweaty competition, where chutes clang open, competitors thud into paddock dirt, and cattle and horses throw kicks that can break riders’ bones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is also a historic American pursuit, a mix of Spanish and Mexican horsemanship and the frontier skills of the American cowboy — roping, riding, herding. Today, rodeo grounds span the United States and the prairie provinces of Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally a sport of cattle towns, rodeo is both growing and opening up. Within the United States, gay, Native American, black, Hispanic and Hawaiian groups all host rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay rodeo is a smaller, amateur version of the big-money professional rodeo circuit, but with a more pronounced mission. It had humble beginnings in 1975, when the gay community in Reno wanted to throw a rodeo for charity but struggled to find a local rancher who would rent livestock for a gay event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of that first assortment of five cows, a pig and a pony, gay rodeo has become a complex enterprise. This year, 12 states and Canada will host gay rodeos, and “Queens and Cowboys,” an independent documentary about the circuit, is raising awareness of the sport on the film festival circuit. In keeping with tradition, many rodeos still raise money for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of competitors, Trujillo-James did not grow up watching cowboys bucking bulls. She was a studious kid in Southern California, raised by a single mother with a big extended family. When her family discovered she was dating a woman, she and her mother stopped speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy James is Trujillo-James’ wife, and a gay rodeo promoter. Her father would take her to rodeos in his native Wyoming every year. Like Trujillo-James, coming out was a trial for James. She ran away from home at 17, after her parents found her love letters to another woman. She was legally emancipated from her family just before turning 18, after a family intervention went bad and her father ended up pointing a gun at her, James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rodeo was a bond in both families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their last visit to see James’ father before he died, they took him out to the same rodeo she had visited as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest joy in my life is that father got to meet Dee, and accepted her,” James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130358\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James’ mother now regales friends with stories about her cowgirl daughter. For years, she had hoped her daughter’s interest in women was “just a phase,” but now discusses gay rodeo with pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tells people, ‘My daughter’s a gay cowgirl.’ She loves educating people,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets gay rodeo apart from other rodeo leagues is its resolutely amateur nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of competitors — straight and gay — who choose our rodeo because they are going to get challenged off some pretty good livestock, but not as much as the mainstream rodeo where the livestock are just going to knock you out,” Judy James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, gay rodeo is gender-neutral, allowing men and women to compete equally in events. While women are often restricted to barrel racing or other non-contact events in traditional rodeo, women competitors in gay rodeos can bull ride, bareback ride and wrestle steers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay rodeo incorporates the traditional events found in any rodeo, like riding and roping, with decidedly non-traditional ones: putting panties on a goat, or helping a drag queen ride a bull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are things you’re just not going to find anywhere but a gay rodeo,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the pro leagues, no one is going to make a living off gay rodeo. Competitors often pay nearly as much in entry fees as they will make in prize money, sometimes more than $100 per weekend for a $250 prize. But Judy James says the finances are beside the point. Instead, it’s an opportunity — even outside the arena — to be a part of a deeper culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a Batman lifestyle,” she said. “This is who we are. I may not wear a cowboy hat here, but it’s still a part of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in San Francisco’s Castro District, an epicenter for gay fashion and culture, a cowboy hat and a pair of boots turns heads. Within the Bay Area’s gay community, rodeo competitors are a small, tight-knit group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in their full Western outfits, they sometimes become objects of fascination on nights out. “It’s a reversal. Now we’re the grand dames of the ball because there are eight of us in a room full of hundreds of drag queens,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1013-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1013-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Lyle feeds his rodeo bulls in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Lyle feeds his rodeo bulls in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Photo: Matthew Hansen/Peninsula Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the small towns in the Bay Area where they sometimes compete — like the mountain town of La Honda in San Mateo County — the reaction is similar. “When we show up, people shout, ‘Gay cowboys are here!’ We bring in a lot of business to these small communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rodeo world is changing around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Lyle is an old hand at the sport; He rode his first bull at 14 and aches from old competition injuries. Today he runs the rodeo grounds where Trujillo-James trains in Morgan Hill, and supplies bulls for gay and traditional rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyle has seen rodeo wax and wane in popularity. Its peak saw riders seduced by movies such as “Urban Cowboy” in 1980, he said, but the Professional Bull Riders craze has swept a lot of interest away from the traditional competition. Now, when he hosts a rodeo, it’s usually in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and rodeo promoter KC Andersen worry about the future of the sport in a rapidly urbanizing Bay Area. Andersen said the rodeo world tends to stick together, though, and that bodes well for the sport’s longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gay rodeos, black rodeos, Hispanic rodeos, we all support each other,” she said. “We’re all trying to keep the heritage going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy James agrees, but is optimistic for the future of the sport: “We have competitors who have children, who are teenagers now and are getting ready to start competing. It’s what they know. It’s the way it should be.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/d.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/d.jpg\" alt=\"Deanna Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of competitors in gay rodeos across the country. Photo: courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of competitors in gay rodeos across the country. Photo: Courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matthew Hansen, \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/03/25/gay-competitors-rodeo/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To flip a 700-pound cow off its feet and onto the ground, start with the mouth. Find the space between its teeth, on the rubbery, wet gums, and hook your fingers inside. Or go for a headlock. Or wedge a hip into the soft space between its neck and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna Trujillo-James recommends trying it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has four pairs of hats, five pairs of boots, good-luck jeans and good-luck shirts. On weekends, she will drive from her home in Oakland to a beaten-up rodeo ground off the highway in Morgan Hill, sign a waiver, and tussle with cattle for hours. At parties, when people ask her hobbies, she tells them, “I wrestle steers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of amateur contestants who, every February through October, suit up for the gay rodeo circuit, a series of local rodeo competitions that span gay communities across the nation, including an arena near the famed Las Vegas Strip and the state fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of eight months, competitors work to collect enough points to get the coveted letter in the mail, inviting them to October’s World Gay Rodeo Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. There, the champions walk away with prize money, bragging rights and a collection of the wide, shiny belt buckles that mark rodeo elite in any league. The spectators cheer and party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To compete there,” Trujillo-James said, “takes your breath away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130359\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. Photo: courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. Photo: Courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Such moments of grace aren’t common in the sport. Rodeo is an often muddy, sweaty competition, where chutes clang open, competitors thud into paddock dirt, and cattle and horses throw kicks that can break riders’ bones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is also a historic American pursuit, a mix of Spanish and Mexican horsemanship and the frontier skills of the American cowboy — roping, riding, herding. Today, rodeo grounds span the United States and the prairie provinces of Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally a sport of cattle towns, rodeo is both growing and opening up. Within the United States, gay, Native American, black, Hispanic and Hawaiian groups all host rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay rodeo is a smaller, amateur version of the big-money professional rodeo circuit, but with a more pronounced mission. It had humble beginnings in 1975, when the gay community in Reno wanted to throw a rodeo for charity but struggled to find a local rancher who would rent livestock for a gay event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of that first assortment of five cows, a pig and a pony, gay rodeo has become a complex enterprise. This year, 12 states and Canada will host gay rodeos, and “Queens and Cowboys,” an independent documentary about the circuit, is raising awareness of the sport on the film festival circuit. In keeping with tradition, many rodeos still raise money for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of competitors, Trujillo-James did not grow up watching cowboys bucking bulls. She was a studious kid in Southern California, raised by a single mother with a big extended family. When her family discovered she was dating a woman, she and her mother stopped speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy James is Trujillo-James’ wife, and a gay rodeo promoter. Her father would take her to rodeos in his native Wyoming every year. Like Trujillo-James, coming out was a trial for James. She ran away from home at 17, after her parents found her love letters to another woman. She was legally emancipated from her family just before turning 18, after a family intervention went bad and her father ended up pointing a gun at her, James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rodeo was a bond in both families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their last visit to see James’ father before he died, they took him out to the same rodeo she had visited as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest joy in my life is that father got to meet Dee, and accepted her,” James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130358\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James’ mother now regales friends with stories about her cowgirl daughter. For years, she had hoped her daughter’s interest in women was “just a phase,” but now discusses gay rodeo with pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tells people, ‘My daughter’s a gay cowgirl.’ She loves educating people,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets gay rodeo apart from other rodeo leagues is its resolutely amateur nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of competitors — straight and gay — who choose our rodeo because they are going to get challenged off some pretty good livestock, but not as much as the mainstream rodeo where the livestock are just going to knock you out,” Judy James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, gay rodeo is gender-neutral, allowing men and women to compete equally in events. While women are often restricted to barrel racing or other non-contact events in traditional rodeo, women competitors in gay rodeos can bull ride, bareback ride and wrestle steers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay rodeo incorporates the traditional events found in any rodeo, like riding and roping, with decidedly non-traditional ones: putting panties on a goat, or helping a drag queen ride a bull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are things you’re just not going to find anywhere but a gay rodeo,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the pro leagues, no one is going to make a living off gay rodeo. Competitors often pay nearly as much in entry fees as they will make in prize money, sometimes more than $100 per weekend for a $250 prize. But Judy James says the finances are beside the point. Instead, it’s an opportunity — even outside the arena — to be a part of a deeper culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a Batman lifestyle,” she said. “This is who we are. I may not wear a cowboy hat here, but it’s still a part of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in San Francisco’s Castro District, an epicenter for gay fashion and culture, a cowboy hat and a pair of boots turns heads. Within the Bay Area’s gay community, rodeo competitors are a small, tight-knit group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in their full Western outfits, they sometimes become objects of fascination on nights out. “It’s a reversal. Now we’re the grand dames of the ball because there are eight of us in a room full of hundreds of drag queens,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1013-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1013-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Lyle feeds his rodeo bulls in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. 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Its peak saw riders seduced by movies such as “Urban Cowboy” in 1980, he said, but the Professional Bull Riders craze has swept a lot of interest away from the traditional competition. Now, when he hosts a rodeo, it’s usually in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and rodeo promoter KC Andersen worry about the future of the sport in a rapidly urbanizing Bay Area. Andersen said the rodeo world tends to stick together, though, and that bodes well for the sport’s longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gay rodeos, black rodeos, Hispanic rodeos, we all support each other,” she said. “We’re all trying to keep the heritage going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP and KQED) — The California State Assembly voted Monday to make \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a78/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Democrat Toni Atkins\u003c/a> its next speaker, replacing John Pérez. Atkins will be the third woman to lead the Assembly, and the first out lesbian to serve in the role. Pérez, who became Assembly speaker four years ago, was its first openly gay leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129721\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/calcapito-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"346\" height=\"257\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A transition date has not been set, but Atkins will assume the role later this spring. Pérez, a Los Angeles Democrat, is termed out this year and running for state controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins, the Democratic majority leader, was elected to run the 80-member Assembly by unanimous voice vote. As majority leader, she will appoint members to committees and subcommittees, establish committee schedules, and allocate funds and staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers praised her commitment to social justice and the diversity she brings to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called her election as speaker \"surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was honestly never in my world vision that I could do this,\" the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-toni-atkins-speaker-20140317,0,432403.story#axzz2wKXnhikD\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> reported her as saying. \"So it's an incredible personal honor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\"I suspect her humble beginnings growing up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia prepared her to appreciate the needs of the less fortunate and to give them a voice in the halls of power, which she has done,\" said Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans said they work well with Atkins despite policy differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Though we hold different political views, she and I have had a very cordial and productive working relationship as the leaders of our respective caucuses,\" Assembly Republican leader Connie Conway said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins told her fellow lawmakers that her priorities include stabilizing the state budget, addressing the state's long-term water needs and improving the economy. She said she'd take a special interest in reducing homelessness and affordable housing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chamber she will lead has a Democratic supermajority, with nearly half of all Assembly members first elected in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She won her seat in 2010 after serving on the San Diego City Council, including a stint as interim mayor, and has two years remaining before her term expires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Senate is expected to choose Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, as its new leader, as Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg also terms out.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Screen-shot-2014-03-14-at-11.33.54-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Screen-shot-2014-03-14-at-11.33.54-AM-640x336.png\" alt='A rendering of what the new Castro Street will look like. The project has moved from \"proposed\" to under construction. (Graph: SF Planning Dept) ' width=\"640\" height=\"336\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of what the new Castro Street will look like. The project has moved from \"proposed\" to under construction. 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