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Every person participating or watching the mass wedding will have the chance to cast one vote for the couple they would like to see win the honeymoon. So the more friends in attendance, the better chance each couple has to win, he said. Ballots will be drawn from three containers, one for gay couples, one for lesbian couples, and one for straight couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the winners are selected, everyone at the ceremony is invited to eat wedding cake and drink champagne (for a small fee) at Hotel Shattuck Plaza. DJ O Aces will spin romantic tunes for the couple’s first dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be three licensed officiates: Berkeley City Councilman Darryl Moore, Berkeley school board member Judy Appel, and Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEO Polly Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley was the first city to recognize domestic partnerships and the first to include sexual orientation in its anti-discrimination policies,” said Moore. “We still have a long way to go towards equality throughout the U.S., but in this city and state, we have a lot to celebrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Appel: “I am deeply honored to be officiating these weddings in Berkeley on the first Valentine’s Day since we won back marriage equality. “This is a chance to celebrate the love of the committed couples who choose to get married, and what better place than in the heart of Berkeley?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf and her husband, Mark Berger, have decided to renew their vows at the ceremony on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couples who are interested in getting married and winning the honeymoon package must register in BART Plaza between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. on the day of the event, bring valid IDs for both parties, and bring a valid marriage license issued within the last 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the weather forecast is calling for clouds and temperatures in the mid-60s. 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They can also try out for sports teams and take part in extracurricular activities without any gender restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many California school districts, Manteca Unified was now faced with trying to implement this very controversial new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'I had been struggling with not feeling right in my body my whole life.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of conversations about how to deal with this,” says Clara Schmiedt, Manteca Unified’s director of secondary education, who was picked to develop a new district policy after Ashton came forward. “Controversy on either side of this is something that a school district does not want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmiedt did her own research, calling other districts and meeting with attorneys. She says it became clear to her that Ashton was entitled to certain rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manteca Unified now joins other school districts that are granting accommodations on a case-by-case basis. In Ashton’s case, his teachers have to address him by his new name and use all the corresponding male pronouns. And he is free to use the boys’ restroom and the boys’ locker rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really boiled down to the fact that (Ashton) really just wanted to be treated like a male student,” says Schmiedt. “I think our staff was really good, too, about helping parents to understand that it wasn’t our choice. It really was about following the law.” \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fears About Kids' Privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents in Manteca who spoke off the record say they’re concerned about their children’s privacy. They also fear male students could abuse the law to access girl’s restrooms and locker rooms. That sentiment is echoed by Miguel Mendoza, a parent in the Chino Hills Valley Unified School District in Southern California. That district recently adopted a resolution opposing the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in high school, I know of so many boys who would have loved to have switched their identities for a day to walk into a girl’s locker room or a girl’s restroom,” Mendoza says. “My prediction is an increase of sexual assaults in the public school system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza is throwing his support behind a referendum movement to overturn the law. Opponents have gathered enough signatures to qualify an initiative on the November ballot. California’s secretary of State is in the process of validating those signatures. Mendoza feels confident the initiative will move forward. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The district also offers teacher training to make educators feel comfortable, too.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The way this law is written, it seems like it was passed without thinking,” Mendoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the recall push, school districts are still required to follow the rule. Many are turning to the San Francisco Unified School District. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-92876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nA three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that prospective jurors may not be excluded from juries solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/01/20/11-17357.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The unanimous ruling\u003c/a> (embedded below) comes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/us/court-weighs-exclusion-of-jurors-because-theyre-gay.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a 2011 lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by SmithKline Beecham against Abbott Laboratories that related to a licensing agreement and pricing of HIV medications. During jury selection, attorneys for Abbott used their first peremptory challenge to strike a self-identified gay member from the jury pool. SmithKline Beecham lost the case and appealed, citing in part the exclusion of the gay juror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gay-jurors-ruling-20140121,0,2253573.story#axzz2r4Osg7so\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times gives\u003c/a> a concise history of the main issue here -- whether the jury-service rights extended to certain minority groups and women ought to apply to prospective LGBT jurors as well:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Supreme Court barred removing jurors based on race in 1986 and later extended the prohibition to gender. In California, a law signed in 2000 prevents juror strikes based on sexual orientation in state courts. Attorneys can generally get around the prohibitions by simply giving a nondiscriminatory reason.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And, from its ruling today, here's the court's brief recounting of government discrimination against gay and lesbian Americans:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Gays and lesbians have been systematically excluded from most institutions of self-governance. Even our prior cases that rejected heightened scrutiny to classifications on the basis of sexual orientation have acknowledged that gay and lesbian individuals have experienced significant discrimination. In the first half of the twentieth century, public attention was preoccupied with homosexual “infiltration” of the federal government. Gays and lesbians were dismissed from civilian employment in the federal government at a rate of sixty per month. Discrimination in employment was not limited to the federal government; local and state governments also excluded homosexuals, and professional licensing boards often revoked licenses on account of homosexuality. In 1985, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case in which a woman had been fired from her job as a guidance counselor in a public school because of her sexuality. Indeed, gays and lesbians were thought to be so contrary to our conception of citizenship that they were made inadmissible under a provision of our immigration laws that required the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to exclude individuals “afflicted with psychopathic personality.” It was not until 1990 that the INS ceased to interpret that category as including gays and lesbians. It is only recently that gay men and women gained the right to be open about their sexuality in the course of their military service. 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They deprive individuals of the opportunity to participate in perfecting democracy and guarding our ideals of justice on account of a characteristic that has nothing to do with their fitness to serve.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest write-through on the story from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lisa Leff\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal appeals court in San Francisco\u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/01/20/11-17357.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> ruled Tuesday\u003c/a> that potential jurors may not be removed from a trial during jury selection solely because of sexual orientation, extending to gays and lesbians a civil right that the U.S. Supreme Court has previously promised only women and racial minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that striking someone from a jury pool because he or she is gay constitutes unlawful discrimination. Its 39-page decision came in an antitrust and contract dispute between two rival drug companies over the price of a popular AIDS drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Abbott Laboratories used one of his allotted peremptory challenges to remove a potential juror who had referred to a male partner and having friends with AIDS during questioning. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 313px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/bishop-otis-charles-gay-rights-advocate/charlesotis628x471-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122596\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-122596 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/charlesotis628x471-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Otis Charles.\" width=\"313\" height=\"471\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Otis Charles.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Otis Charles struggled for years to fit in with what was expected of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was bishop of Utah for 15 years before becoming president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. He was married for 42 years and raised five children with his wife Elvira. He told Elvira he was gay in 1976, but he didn't go public until 1993 — becoming the first Christian bishop to come out as gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview in the 2012 documentary \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovefreeordiemovie.com/\">Love Free or Die\u003c/a>,\" about Gene Robinson, the first openly gay priest in a committed same-sex relationship to be ordained a bishop, Charles regrets not coming out sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like trying to put on a suit that doesn't fit,\" he says of being closeted. Though he didn't come out until he had retired from the church, separated from and divorced his wife, and moved to San Francisco, he spent the rest of his years speaking out in support of fully including gay and lesbian worshippers and ministers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles died on Dec. 26, at age 87, in his San Francisco home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In earlier interviews, he says he remained in the closet for so long because he thought the truth would be too hard on the diocese, his family, and his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came debates in the Episcopal Church over homosexuality. \"I sat quietly during all of that rhetoric while bishops were speaking out of no knowledge and great prejudice,\" Charles told \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R910091630/c\">KQED's Scott Shafer\u003c/a> in 2009. \"And their whole attitude was, this was a great illness and you just had to go to the bottom, and finally you get saved and everything would be fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the catalyst that moved him. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BATTLE-OVER-SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE-Gay-bishop-2785812.php\">told\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I was ashamed of myself for remaining silent when the church was involved in an acrimonious debate about the whole question of gay people in the life of the church. I couldn't live with that any longer,\" he said. \"I came to realize that I was only going to wither and die and it would be a destructive relationship for my wife and myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to fellow bishops, Charles wrote, \"I will not remain silent, invisible, unknown.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, Charles, who retained his bishop's rank after his retirement and membership in the church's 300-delegate House of Bishops, was politically active. He was arrested in 1999 at the national Episcopal convention in Denver in a protest over the church's treatment of gays and lesbians. In 2003, he was a delegate to the Episcopal convention that approved the election of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire. He also participated in antiwar causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Jay Johnson, an Episcopal priest and lecturer in theology and culture at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, knew Charles for more than 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s important for people to realize who did not know him personally what a simply wonderful man that he was,\" Johnson said, \"friendly, charming, insightful, always keen to be learning, always keen to be pushing both church and society further toward that image that he believed was the essence of Christian faith and of the gospel, and that is everyone is welcome at the table, and he certainly lived that way himself. That will be greatly missed, by many.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At age 76, Charles met his partner. He and Felipe Sanchez-Paris, a retired professor and political organizer, married in a church ceremony in 2004, and were legally married in 2008, during the pre-Prop. 8 window in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When he met and his relationship with Felipe Paris developed, he became even more concerned and involved in immigration rights and all sorts of areas around economic and social justice,\" Johnson said. Sanchez-Paris died in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Susan Russell, an Episcopal priest in Pasadena, wrote in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-susan-russell/bishop-otis-charles-and-the-bridge-to-somewhere_b_4509082.html\">Huffington Post\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Otis Charles was part of the bridge generation — those who dared to reach across the chasm of what was to what could be — building a bridge to somewhere. Those who had no examples of how to live authentically as LGBT people and so became examples for those who came after them. Examples of how to tell the truth about their lives — even after decades of denial to themselves and to others. Examples of how to claim the blessing of God's presence in their life and in their love as a witness to a work of healing, of hope, of wholeness.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 11 at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 DeHaro St., in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In earlier interviews, he says he remained in the closet for so long because he thought the truth would be too hard on the diocese, his family, and his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came debates in the Episcopal Church over homosexuality. \"I sat quietly during all of that rhetoric while bishops were speaking out of no knowledge and great prejudice,\" Charles told \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R910091630/c\">KQED's Scott Shafer\u003c/a> in 2009. \"And their whole attitude was, this was a great illness and you just had to go to the bottom, and finally you get saved and everything would be fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the catalyst that moved him. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BATTLE-OVER-SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE-Gay-bishop-2785812.php\">told\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I was ashamed of myself for remaining silent when the church was involved in an acrimonious debate about the whole question of gay people in the life of the church. I couldn't live with that any longer,\" he said. \"I came to realize that I was only going to wither and die and it would be a destructive relationship for my wife and myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to fellow bishops, Charles wrote, \"I will not remain silent, invisible, unknown.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, Charles, who retained his bishop's rank after his retirement and membership in the church's 300-delegate House of Bishops, was politically active. He was arrested in 1999 at the national Episcopal convention in Denver in a protest over the church's treatment of gays and lesbians. In 2003, he was a delegate to the Episcopal convention that approved the election of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire. He also participated in antiwar causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Jay Johnson, an Episcopal priest and lecturer in theology and culture at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, knew Charles for more than 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s important for people to realize who did not know him personally what a simply wonderful man that he was,\" Johnson said, \"friendly, charming, insightful, always keen to be learning, always keen to be pushing both church and society further toward that image that he believed was the essence of Christian faith and of the gospel, and that is everyone is welcome at the table, and he certainly lived that way himself. That will be greatly missed, by many.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At age 76, Charles met his partner. He and Felipe Sanchez-Paris, a retired professor and political organizer, married in a church ceremony in 2004, and were legally married in 2008, during the pre-Prop. 8 window in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When he met and his relationship with Felipe Paris developed, he became even more concerned and involved in immigration rights and all sorts of areas around economic and social justice,\" Johnson said. Sanchez-Paris died in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Susan Russell, an Episcopal priest in Pasadena, wrote in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-susan-russell/bishop-otis-charles-and-the-bridge-to-somewhere_b_4509082.html\">Huffington Post\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Otis Charles was part of the bridge generation — those who dared to reach across the chasm of what was to what could be — building a bridge to somewhere. Those who had no examples of how to live authentically as LGBT people and so became examples for those who came after them. Examples of how to tell the truth about their lives — even after decades of denial to themselves and to others. Examples of how to claim the blessing of God's presence in their life and in their love as a witness to a work of healing, of hope, of wholeness.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 11 at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 DeHaro St., in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Jenny Oh/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/CCSF-rally.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121341\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/CCSF-rally-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"In March, hundreds of students from several campuses of the City College of San Francisco arrived at City Hall as part of an ongoing protest against a plan to revoke the college's accreditation. That battle continues, with CCSF supporters now suing to block an accreditation agency from proceeding with its plan. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>In March, hundreds of students from several campuses of the City College of San Francisco arrived at City Hall as part of an ongoing protest against a plan to revoke the college's accreditation. That battle continues, with CCSF supporters now suing to block an accreditation agency from proceeding with its plan. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/immigration-reform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121363\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/immigration-reform-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"As part of a July protest against border militarization, faith leaders, workers, and community groups gathered in San Francisco and dramatized the the fate of those who have died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The action took place at the offices of SAIC, one of the contractors building the U.S. border wall and surveillance system. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> As part of a July protest against border militarization, faith leaders, workers, and community groups gathered in San Francisco and dramatized the the fate of those who have died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The action took place at the offices of SAIC, one of the contractors building the U.S. border wall and surveillance system. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/PhotoWeek130517OccupyFarm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/PhotoWeek130517OccupyFarm.jpg\" alt=\"In May, Pancho Ramos-Stierle, part of an urban farming group that repeatedly occupied a UC Berkeley agricultural research plot in Albany, held plant starts that survived a UC plow and were ready to be replanted. The university is proceeding with plans for developing part of the site, but it's also sponsoring a collaboration between researchers and urban farm activists on another part of the plot. (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)PhotoWeek130517OccupyFarm\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> In May, Pancho Ramos-Stierle, part of an urban farming group that repeatedly occupied a UC Berkeley agricultural research plot in Albany, held plant starts that survived a UC plow and were ready to be replanted. The university is proceeding with plans for developing part of the site, but it's also sponsoring a collaboration between researchers and urban farm activists on another part of the plot. 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It was the third-largest wildfire in California’s history, burning 400 square miles in and around Yosemite National Park and threatening the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Estimates of total losses in the fire, including damage to the forest's carbon-storing function, range up to nearly $1 billion. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"On June 26 the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that struck down Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California. Two of the the people who sued to overturn Prop. 8, Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, face each other and prepare to seal their marriage with a kiss at San Francisco City Hall on June 28. They were married by California Attorney General Kamala Harris. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>On June 26 the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that struck down Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California. Two of the the people who sued to overturn Prop. 8, Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, face each other and prepare to seal their marriage with a kiss at San Francisco City Hall on June 28. They were married by California Attorney General Kamala Harris. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/BART-strike.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/BART-strike-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"BART strikes in July and October sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for commute alternatives. Streets and freeways were jammed, ferry lines stretched out of sight, AC Transit provided extra buses and at least one intrepid commuter decided to kayak across the Bay. Here, ferry-borne commuters are reflected in a window as they disembark at San Francisco's Ferry Building on Oct. 18. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/bart-strike/\">BART strikes\u003c/a> in July and October sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for commute alternatives. Streets and freeways were jammed, ferry lines stretched out of sight, AC Transit provided extra buses and at least one intrepid commuter decided to kayak across the Bay. Here, ferry-borne commuters are reflected in a window as they disembark at San Francisco's Ferry Building on Oct. 18. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Last-car.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Last-car-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"One final car crosses the old eastern section of the Bay Bridge on Aug. 28 as Caltrans shut down the span to put the finishing touches on the bridge's long-delayed $6.4 billion self-anchored suspension span. The new bridge opened late the night of Labor Day, Sept. 2. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> One final car crosses the old eastern section of the Bay Bridge on Aug. 28 as Caltrans shut down the span to put the finishing touches on the bridge's long-delayed $6.4 billion self-anchored suspension span. The new bridge opened late the night of Labor Day, Sept. 2. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/PhotoWeek130906bikepath.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121462\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/PhotoWeek130906bikepath.jpg\" alt=\"The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is not just for vehicles. There's a bicycle and pedestrian path, too. People came out in droves when it first opened to check it out and get a different view of the bay. (Nancy Rubin/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is not just for vehicles. There's a bicycle and pedestrian path, too. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/09/04/new-bay-bridge-span-its-for-bikes-and-pedestrians-too/\">People came out in droves\u003c/a> when it first opened to check it out and get a different view of the bay. (Nancy Rubin / \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> Early this summer, construction continued on the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert. Ivanpah, the largest solar thermal power plant in the world, opened this year, putting the state a step closer to its ambitious renewable energy goal. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/devils-slide-tunnel.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-121479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/devils-slide-tunnel-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"The Devil's Slide Tunnels south of Pacifica and north of Half Moon Bay opened in March after decades of environmental battles and years of construction. The new tunnel consists of two bores, each about 4,200 feet long, with one lane and a wide shoulder. The tunnels are meant to solve the safety and erosion problems that have plagued that notorious stretch of Highway 1 since it was built. Here, a Caltrans construction crew works on one of the twin 30-foot wide tunnels. (Jenny Oh / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> The Devil's Slide Tunnels south of Pacifica and north of Half Moon Bay \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/03/22/historic-devils-slide-tunnels-finally-about-to-open/\" target=\"_blank\">opened in March after decades of environmental battles and years of construction\u003c/a>. The new tunnel consists of two bores, each about 4,200 feet long, with one lane and a wide shoulder. The tunnels are meant to solve the safety and erosion problems that have plagued that notorious stretch of Highway 1 since it was built. Here, a Caltrans construction crew works on one of the twin 30-foot wide tunnels. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a> As part of a July protest against border militarization, faith leaders, workers, and community groups gathered in San Francisco and dramatized the the fate of those who have died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The action took place at the offices of SAIC, one of the contractors building the U.S. border wall and surveillance system. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/PhotoWeek130517OccupyFarm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/PhotoWeek130517OccupyFarm.jpg\" alt=\"In May, Pancho Ramos-Stierle, part of an urban farming group that repeatedly occupied a UC Berkeley agricultural research plot in Albany, held plant starts that survived a UC plow and were ready to be replanted. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/_mg_1258/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113667\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113667\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/MG_1258-e1380834965940.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. (Myleen Hollero/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Oviatt was forced to live in his car for more than eight months. (Myleen Hollero/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 28 years, Peter Greene lived in a rent-controlled Victorian flat above a travel agency he co-founded in San Francisco’s Castro District. Originally from New York City, he hitchhiked here in the mid-’70s from Colorado, where he went to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe when I walked down Castro Street there was just freedom,” Greene recalled. “I just never felt like I could be harmed again in any way. It was a sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the 1980s the AIDS crisis hit “and the Castro became a sad place for many years.” Greene helped run\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nowvoyager.com/\">Now, Voyager\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, the gay and lesbian travel service, for a decade until he found out he had AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? You’re just essentially being told to get out of town. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of his life since then, he said, has been spent fighting illness. One thing he didn’t have to worry about, until recently, was his apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been under rent control, which has made so much possible for me to live in the city and I just never really considered what it would be like without this apartment,” said Greene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, the owner decided to sell and the new owner opted to move in. After months of what Greene calls “lawyering,” he agreed to a buyout and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing with these buyouts is where to do you go? People say well, you got ‘blah, blah, blah amount of dollars,’ but it doesn’t create a new life here in San Francisco. You’re just essentially just being told to get out of town, and here’s a few bucks to try and figure it out.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/img_0112/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113671\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/IMG_0112-e1380906845136.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Greene was evicted from his home in the Castro. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Greene was forced to leave his home above the travel shop earlier this year. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No place like San Francisco for those with AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greene said for people living with HIV and AIDS, leaving San Francisco is a daunting prospect, because it has been at the forefront of research and care. Greene has participated in more than 20 clinical trials. He has been rooted in his beloved Castro neighborhood, even though it’s changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re scared because you feel like you’ve been kept alive by this thing that you’ve set in place that has taken many, many years,” said Greene. “By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have been especially hard since April when Jonathan Klein, the longtime owner of Now, Voyager, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68685\">committed suicide\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> six months after he took a buyout and was forced to leave his apartment. Klein had been staying with Greene, and when the building’s owner decided to sell, Klein’s travel shop was in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were told to leave, it was another blow. It was just a trifecta when one day he got up and went out to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped,” said Greene. “I’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and lost a lot of friends, but there’s something about suicide. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Greene, who’s almost 60, said he’s been lucky because he’s been able to couch-surf with friends. He plans to move to Palm Springs to help care for a friend with cancer. “I still have the opportunity to make something of myself. It just gets harder as you get older and wake up with more of this and that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> By destroying one life, by displacing one person, you displace so much of the good that they’ve done, the people they’re connected to. \u003c/aside>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>LGBT seniors at risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and tenant rights advocates say evictions are happening all over the city at an alarming rate, and driving some LGBT people into homelessness. The city’s most recent homeless count found that 29 percent are LGBT, and 9.2 percent said they were homeless because of an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at a 12-year high for evictions in San Francisco, fueled by real estate speculation,” said Brian Basinger, the executive director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ahasf.org/\">AIDS Housing Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent report by the city’s budget analyst found that the highest rates of no-fault evictions in the city were in the Castro and Bernal Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the historically gay male and lesbian women communities,” he said. “We are the most disproportionate community targeted for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basinger said disabled LGBT seniors are among the most vulnerable. A recent \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-hrc.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2363\">report\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by the city’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force found that 40 percent of LGBT seniors surveyed did not have the minimum income to meet their basic needs. Fifteen percent have contemplated suicide in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113672\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/113651/evictions-displace-gay-men-with-aids/now-voyager-window/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113672\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Now-Voyager-Window--e1380907671564.jpg\" alt=\"A tribute to Jonathan Klein, the late owner of Now Voyager. It opened as the first gay travel agency in the Castro in 1984. 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When I interviewed him, he took me to the store’s parking lot, where he was living in his Chrysler convertible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have blankets and pillows in the trunk and just put the seat down as low as it’ll go and just cocoon up in there. It doesn’t make for a great night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 26 years, Oviatt, who moved to San Francisco in the 1970s from Detroit, owned a boutique store in the heart of the Castro known as All American Boy. When the recession hit, a string of calamitous events began. He lost his shop, made some bad business decisions, couldn’t pay his mortgage and his partner died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street because you have no place to cook. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oviatt, also living with AIDS, said his feet swell up when he sleeps in the car, and it’s been broken into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It truly has worn me down. I mean, I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street, because you have no place to cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oviatt said his co-workers were supportive for the eight months he was forced to live in his car. Since our interview in July, he’s found housing, thanks to the AIDS Housing Alliance, which in recent years has helped more than 1,000 LGBT people avoid becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t have a good safety net in this society,” said Oviatt. “I don’t know what the solution is but there has to be a better way then there is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More elected officials are paying attention to the problem, according to Basinger, and he’s urging the city to direct more money into preventing and getting LGBT people out of homelessness. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevan Dufty, the former Castro District supervisor who is Mayor Ed Lee’s point person on homelessness, said he was alarmed to find out that 29 percent of homeless are LGBT, and he would like to see the number reduced by 50 percent within three or four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in discussions with some of the key city departments such as the Human Services Agency and our public health department to really look at strategies we can collaborate on that really focus in on LGBT homelessness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> We’ve been going out to a lot of different locations recognizing that LGBT homeless individuals are in our shelter system, they are sleeping in Golden Gate Park, they are on Castro Street. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those strategies would include addressing “the insecurity and the lack of housing stability that people can feel in this very changing and heated rental market in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LGBTQ Connect \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way city officials and housing and tenant advocates are collaborating to address LGBT homelessness is bringing together organizations that serve the LGBT community with organizations that have typically served the general homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the LGBT Community Center will host a first-of-its-kind event for those LGBT people who are homeless or at risk. 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It was just a trifecta when one day he got up and went out to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped,” said Greene. “I’ve lived through the AIDS crisis and lost a lot of friends, but there’s something about suicide. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Greene, who’s almost 60, said he’s been lucky because he’s been able to couch-surf with friends. He plans to move to Palm Springs to help care for a friend with cancer. “I still have the opportunity to make something of myself. 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He lost his shop, made some bad business decisions, couldn’t pay his mortgage and his partner died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street because you have no place to cook. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oviatt, also living with AIDS, said his feet swell up when he sleeps in the car, and it’s been broken into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It truly has worn me down. I mean, I’m pretty strong, but this takes the hell out of you and it’s expensive, believe it or not, living on the street, because you have no place to cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oviatt said his co-workers were supportive for the eight months he was forced to live in his car. 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