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"content": "\u003cp>Soni Wolf, a founding member of the iconic \u003ca href=\"https://www.dykesonbikes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dykes on Bikes\u003c/a> whose motorcycle contingent has led the LGBT Pride Parade for four decades, has died at the age of 69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said Wolf died in Daly City last week, surrounded by friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolf, a native of Rhode Island who served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam era, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s. Her first ride with Dykes on Bikes occurred in San Francisco’s Pride Parade in 1976. It was not an especially hospitable time for LGBT rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the term dyke — are you kidding me? –- people wouldn’t say it,” recalls Tom Ammiano. “It was so affirming to have it used and also disarming. 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In addition to U.S. cities like Chicago, Minneapolis and Monterey, there are now Dykes on Bikes chapters in Iceland, Australia and England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Leno, who is seeking to become San Francisco’s first openly gay mayor, said Wolf was tenacious in her advocacy of queer rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soni was a force of nature and a powerful leader who led by example,” Leno said. “We will miss her dearly. But we will continue to honor her by picking up where she left off — fighting for equality and unconditionally giving to our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Leno suggests, Dykes on Bikes was much more than a once-a-year contingent in the Pride Parade. The group also did philanthropic work for LGBT causes and organizations around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She blazed the trail for the rest of us in courage and LGBTQ pride,” said Kate Brown, a former president of the group. “Like the roads we ride, our lives take many twists and turns. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This story has been updated with the school board vote early Thursday and to add comments\u003cem> from U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/em>. You can listen to a version of this story on The Bay podcast. \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http://bit.ly/thebaykqed\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teaching of sex ed in fourth through sixth grades has been eliminated in the city of Fremont after months of controversy over a proposed new curriculum to comply with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted early Thursday to scrap the sex ed program for fourth through sixth graders. Controversial content included addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity; the possibility that as adults, people may have more than one sexual partner; and inclusive LGBTQ lessons, like on transgender individuals and gender fluidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the vote, sex ed had been taught in Fremont schools to fifth and sixth graders since the 1980s, and to fourth graders since 2011. The board approved the update to sex ed in seventh through ninth grades — which they were essentially required to do to comply with the California Healthy Youth Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people here wanted to have sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grade,” said school board member Larry Sweeney, who voted against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/fremont/Board.nsf/public\">new sex ed instruction\u003c/a>. “We just couldn’t agree on the content so the consequence is now there’s no sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of parents, along with some teachers and current and former students, have flooded four Fremont Unified school board meetings in the past two months, deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. Amid the dispute, some opponents and supporters have lodged accusations of racism, homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This curriculum strives to combat and confront things like sexual assault and bigotry,” said a supporter, parent Pallavi Somusetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” countered Sunitha Devi Gopalan, a parent opposing the new instruction. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Yin, a Fremont schools graduate who teaches sexual health in the East Bay, had presented to the board a petition with more than 1,000 signatures from students who supported the new sex ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that what is best for the students and what the students are asking for was ignored is the most frustrating part of this whole process,” Yin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy\">Following the vote\u003c/a>, the school board said it would convene a panel of parents and experts to try to reach a consensus on a sex ed curriculum that respects the beliefs of parents and adheres to state standards for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. congressman for the area, Rep. Ro Khanna, decried the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repercussions of this are drastic: the board not only voted to reject CHYA compliant education but eliminated any sexual education for children at all,” he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoKhannaUSA/posts/1725648827481420\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. “Sex education is critical for the safety of individuals of all ages, and this policy will silence voices, put students in danger, and increase overall risk in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaching Compliance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolled out in 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/span>\u003c/a> set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country: The curriculum includes instruction on same-sex relationships and different gender identities, with additional lessons on consent and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law makes sexual education a requirement starting in seventh grade. When sex ed is taught at earlier ages, the law requires those lessons follow state guidelines. That’s what Fremont Unified did when they drafted the new lesson plans for fourth through sixth grade, said Denise Herrmann, associate superintendent of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we used is the document that’s published by the state of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements,” Herrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members had appeared divided over the issue, too, with some seeming to lean toward supporting parental control and others stressing the need for comprehensive sex ed. Many of the board members expressed hope they could find a viable compromise, but as tensions had flared, that had seemed less and less likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are elected by us, the parents in this room, not by social justice warriors, who aggressively promote their ideological agendas,” one parent, Tony Szu, told the school board at its April meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area school districts have had challenges implementing the new law, too: Last year, the nearby Cupertino Union School District backed off of making a \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar update\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to its curriculum after a debate like the one in Fremont erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Very Inappropriate’? 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His son, who is in fifth grade, was too young for these explicit details, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” Hsu said. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse then the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though parents could opt their kids out of the course, students can find out what is being taught, said Sylvia Wong, whose daughter is in sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, ‘Mom, I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence,’” Wong said. “When I heard that I was really angry. Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love-making positions,” she added. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it. I’m 45 years old, I don’t want my 10-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new sex ed curriculum said talking about sex early can decrease sexual activity among young people. Pallavi Somusetty, who grew up attending Fremont public schools, said she wishes she had sex ed instruction earlier and she wants it for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sex ed happened two years too late for me” — two years, she said, after she got her period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lessons about consent, included in the new curriculum, came far too late for her best friend, who she said was sexually abused by a South Asian Fremont man in the 1990s. Somusetty said lessons about good touch and bad touch, far from stealing her friend’s innocence, might have protected it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t turn a blind eye to these things, just because a minority of parents, some from my own South Asian community, want to pretend that they don’t exist,” Somusetty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has Racism Entered the Debate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large majority of parents protesting the new sex ed curriculum were South Asian-American or Chinese-American. About 70 percent of students in the Fremont Unified School District are of Asian descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the debate has grown more heated, parent Annie He said she was “starting to fear (for) my family’s safety.” She said a post on a public forum about the sex ed instruction attacked “third world style people” for creating taboos about sex ed. As a Chinese immigrant, she said she felt it was a direct attack against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am highly educated,” Annie He said. She thinks racism has taken over the debate, and singled out South Asian-American and Chinese-American parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Annie He said they weren’t opposed to sex education. But they fear this curriculum teaches kids too much, too soon. “We just want to protect our children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Wish Sex Ed Was Made Available to the Parents Here’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School District Board meeting \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another key part of the debate has been including topics about the LGBTQ community — like diverse sexual and gender identities — in the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sameer Jha\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, 16, joined the board meetings with his mom to back inclusive sex ed instruction. Jha said he was bullied constantly in elementary and middle school in Fremont for being feminine and for acting and looking different. It wasn’t until after he left Fremont Unified, and started to commute to a private high school in Oakland, that he could come out to his parents and friends as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, his mother said she had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases,” Charmaine Hussain said. “There’s so much stigma in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is her son’s biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. Before her son came out, she said, “I didn’t even know that word existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because they’re so fearful of diversity and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha said one of the reasons the inclusive sex ed curriculum is so important is to have kids talk about sexuality — queer and otherwise. He said lessons like this may have prevented his being bullied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents opposed to the new curriculum said they didn’t want their kids to be taught about sexual and gender identity, while others said they didn’t want to exclude these topics but felt it was too early for their kids to learn about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Taft Ding said he worried about language in the curriculum telling fourth graders they get to decide who they are — echoing the concerns some parents had about lessons on transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell a girl, an innocent girl, that she is a boy, is evil,” Ding said. “It’s more than wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said his objections had nothing to do with excluding the LGBTQ community — it’s the content matter that concerns him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this objection to the curriculum, Anthony Prickett, a former Fremont student who has returned to support the sex ed update said, “That is how queer people have sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Hate Group Involved?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (PJI), which has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a> for its anti-gay rhetoric and support of gay conversion therapy, has joined some of the school board meetings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PJI President Brad Dacus said his group got involved when a parent reached out to them with concerns over the new curriculum. Dacus, who said PJI isn’t a hate group, told KQED that they are concerned with parental rights and freedom of speech and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dacus said his group was monitoring the discussion and awaiting the school board’s decision. PJI has previously weighed in on various school debates in the Bay Area: It took credit for convincing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cupertino Union School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to hold off on their sex ed curriculum update last year. And, in Alameda County in 2009, PJI fought against anti-bullying lessons in school, lessons they refer to on their website as part of a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/parents-take-a-beating-from-school-district-court-in-anti-bullying-case\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro-homosexual” curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ACLU of Northern California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has been watching the sex ed debate, too, on the side supporting the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debates over acceptance of LGBTQ people aren’t new to Fremont — nor are heated school board meetings. In 2010, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/05/14/fremont-school-board-draws-ire-for-postponing-harvey-milk-day-recognition/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">parents protested\u003c/span>\u003c/a> over the creation of a Harvey Milk Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Jones Larisch, an 18 year old who identifies as a non-binary transgender person, has been coming to Fremont school board meetings since they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been booed when I’ve gone up and talked about my identity, and I’ve been bullied in school because of my identity,” Jones Larisch said. “It is really devastating going through high school in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Harvey Milk controversy flared, they remember a sign someone held up reading: “Milk was a pervert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are getting better, Jones Larisch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board meetings used to be more hostile than they are right now,” Jones Larisch said. “Though it’s not perfect, the climate in that room has changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘These Are Very Curious Minds’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she liked the current curriculum but is worried that the new one would teach kids about more than puberty: It would teach them to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms, and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is precisely because kids have curious minds that they should be taught about sex by trained professionals, said Yasi Safinya-Davies, executive director of Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments, or \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAVE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a Google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kids now live in the age of the internet, which doesn’t teach consent, but is just a click away from porn, said Safinya-Davies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group works with a lot of young people who tell her, “We don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest, open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality,” she said. “We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent, she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” she said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story has been updated with the school board vote early Thursday and to add comments\u003cem> from U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/em>. You can listen to a version of this story on The Bay podcast. \u003c/i>\u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http://bit.ly/thebaykqed\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teaching of sex ed in fourth through sixth grades has been eliminated in the city of Fremont after months of controversy over a proposed new curriculum to comply with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School District Board of Education voted early Thursday to scrap the sex ed program for fourth through sixth graders. Controversial content included addressing the emotional aspects of sex and sexual activity; the possibility that as adults, people may have more than one sexual partner; and inclusive LGBTQ lessons, like on transgender individuals and gender fluidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the vote, sex ed had been taught in Fremont schools to fifth and sixth graders since the 1980s, and to fourth graders since 2011. The board approved the update to sex ed in seventh through ninth grades — which they were essentially required to do to comply with the California Healthy Youth Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people here wanted to have sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grade,” said school board member Larry Sweeney, who voted against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boarddocs.com/ca/fremont/Board.nsf/public\">new sex ed instruction\u003c/a>. “We just couldn’t agree on the content so the consequence is now there’s no sex education for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of parents, along with some teachers and current and former students, have flooded four Fremont Unified school board meetings in the past two months, deeply divided over how to teach students as young as fourth grade about sex and sexuality. Amid the dispute, some opponents and supporters have lodged accusations of racism, homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This curriculum strives to combat and confront things like sexual assault and bigotry,” said a supporter, parent Pallavi Somusetty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” countered Sunitha Devi Gopalan, a parent opposing the new instruction. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Yin, a Fremont schools graduate who teaches sexual health in the East Bay, had presented to the board a petition with more than 1,000 signatures from students who supported the new sex ed curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that what is best for the students and what the students are asking for was ignored is the most frustrating part of this whole process,” Yin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666223/fremont-ends-sex-ed-for-fourth-through-six-graders-after-curriculum-controversy\">Following the vote\u003c/a>, the school board said it would convene a panel of parents and experts to try to reach a consensus on a sex ed curriculum that respects the beliefs of parents and adheres to state standards for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. congressman for the area, Rep. Ro Khanna, decried the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repercussions of this are drastic: the board not only voted to reject CHYA compliant education but eliminated any sexual education for children at all,” he said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoKhannaUSA/posts/1725648827481420\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. “Sex education is critical for the safety of individuals of all ages, and this policy will silence voices, put students in danger, and increase overall risk in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reaching Compliance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolled out in 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/span>\u003c/a> set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country: The curriculum includes instruction on same-sex relationships and different gender identities, with additional lessons on consent and sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law makes sexual education a requirement starting in seventh grade. When sex ed is taught at earlier ages, the law requires those lessons follow state guidelines. That’s what Fremont Unified did when they drafted the new lesson plans for fourth through sixth grade, said Denise Herrmann, associate superintendent of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we used is the document that’s published by the state of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements,” Herrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members had appeared divided over the issue, too, with some seeming to lean toward supporting parental control and others stressing the need for comprehensive sex ed. Many of the board members expressed hope they could find a viable compromise, but as tensions had flared, that had seemed less and less likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are elected by us, the parents in this room, not by social justice warriors, who aggressively promote their ideological agendas,” one parent, Tony Szu, told the school board at its April meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area school districts have had challenges implementing the new law, too: Last year, the nearby Cupertino Union School District backed off of making a \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">similar update\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to its curriculum after a debate like the one in Fremont erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Very Inappropriate’? Or, ‘We Shouldn’t Turn a Blind Eye’?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11666259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11666259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30657_Fremont_SD-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and students at a Fremont school board meeting debating sex ed on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents like Danny Hsu said Fremont schools had crossed a line with the new sex ed proposal. His son, who is in fifth grade, was too young for these explicit details, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” Hsu said. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse then the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though parents could opt their kids out of the course, students can find out what is being taught, said Sylvia Wong, whose daughter is in sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, ‘Mom, I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence,’” Wong said. “When I heard that I was really angry. Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love-making positions,” she added. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it. I’m 45 years old, I don’t want my 10-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new sex ed curriculum said talking about sex early can decrease sexual activity among young people. Pallavi Somusetty, who grew up attending Fremont public schools, said she wishes she had sex ed instruction earlier and she wants it for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sex ed happened two years too late for me” — two years, she said, after she got her period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lessons about consent, included in the new curriculum, came far too late for her best friend, who she said was sexually abused by a South Asian Fremont man in the 1990s. Somusetty said lessons about good touch and bad touch, far from stealing her friend’s innocence, might have protected it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t turn a blind eye to these things, just because a minority of parents, some from my own South Asian community, want to pretend that they don’t exist,” Somusetty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has Racism Entered the Debate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large majority of parents protesting the new sex ed curriculum were South Asian-American or Chinese-American. About 70 percent of students in the Fremont Unified School District are of Asian descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the debate has grown more heated, parent Annie He said she was “starting to fear (for) my family’s safety.” She said a post on a public forum about the sex ed instruction attacked “third world style people” for creating taboos about sex ed. As a Chinese immigrant, she said she felt it was a direct attack against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am highly educated,” Annie He said. She thinks racism has taken over the debate, and singled out South Asian-American and Chinese-American parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Annie He said they weren’t opposed to sex education. But they fear this curriculum teaches kids too much, too soon. “We just want to protect our children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Wish Sex Ed Was Made Available to the Parents Here’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School District Board meeting \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another key part of the debate has been including topics about the LGBTQ community — like diverse sexual and gender identities — in the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sameer Jha\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, 16, joined the board meetings with his mom to back inclusive sex ed instruction. Jha said he was bullied constantly in elementary and middle school in Fremont for being feminine and for acting and looking different. It wasn’t until after he left Fremont Unified, and started to commute to a private high school in Oakland, that he could come out to his parents and friends as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, his mother said she had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases,” Charmaine Hussain said. “There’s so much stigma in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is her son’s biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. Before her son came out, she said, “I didn’t even know that word existed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because they’re so fearful of diversity and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha said one of the reasons the inclusive sex ed curriculum is so important is to have kids talk about sexuality — queer and otherwise. He said lessons like this may have prevented his being bullied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents opposed to the new curriculum said they didn’t want their kids to be taught about sexual and gender identity, while others said they didn’t want to exclude these topics but felt it was too early for their kids to learn about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Taft Ding said he worried about language in the curriculum telling fourth graders they get to decide who they are — echoing the concerns some parents had about lessons on transgender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell a girl, an innocent girl, that she is a boy, is evil,” Ding said. “It’s more than wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said his objections had nothing to do with excluding the LGBTQ community — it’s the content matter that concerns him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about this objection to the curriculum, Anthony Prickett, a former Fremont student who has returned to support the sex ed update said, “That is how queer people have sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Hate Group Involved?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (PJI), which has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a> for its anti-gay rhetoric and support of gay conversion therapy, has joined some of the school board meetings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PJI President Brad Dacus said his group got involved when a parent reached out to them with concerns over the new curriculum. Dacus, who said PJI isn’t a hate group, told KQED that they are concerned with parental rights and freedom of speech and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dacus said his group was monitoring the discussion and awaiting the school board’s decision. PJI has previously weighed in on various school debates in the Bay Area: It took credit for convincing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cupertino Union School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to hold off on their sex ed curriculum update last year. And, in Alameda County in 2009, PJI fought against anti-bullying lessons in school, lessons they refer to on their website as part of a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/parents-take-a-beating-from-school-district-court-in-anti-bullying-case\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro-homosexual” curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ACLU of Northern California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> has been watching the sex ed debate, too, on the side supporting the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debates over acceptance of LGBTQ people aren’t new to Fremont — nor are heated school board meetings. In 2010, some \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/05/14/fremont-school-board-draws-ire-for-postponing-harvey-milk-day-recognition/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">parents protested\u003c/span>\u003c/a> over the creation of a Harvey Milk Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Jones Larisch, an 18 year old who identifies as a non-binary transgender person, has been coming to Fremont school board meetings since they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been booed when I’ve gone up and talked about my identity, and I’ve been bullied in school because of my identity,” Jones Larisch said. “It is really devastating going through high school in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Harvey Milk controversy flared, they remember a sign someone held up reading: “Milk was a pervert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are getting better, Jones Larisch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board meetings used to be more hostile than they are right now,” Jones Larisch said. “Though it’s not perfect, the climate in that room has changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘These Are Very Curious Minds’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she liked the current curriculum but is worried that the new one would teach kids about more than puberty: It would teach them to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms, and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is precisely because kids have curious minds that they should be taught about sex by trained professionals, said Yasi Safinya-Davies, executive director of Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments, or \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAVE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a Google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kids now live in the age of the internet, which doesn’t teach consent, but is just a click away from porn, said Safinya-Davies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group works with a lot of young people who tell her, “We don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest, open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality,” she said. “We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent, she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>These days, Sean Hannity is an influential conservative commentator, known for his aggressive style, wild conspiracy claims and lately, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/18/603471930/besides-cohen-other-trump-connected-attorneys-linked-to-sean-hannity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being a secret client\u003c/a> of embattled Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1989, the 27-year-old Hannity was living in Santa Barbara, working as a house painter and learning the ropes as a rookie broadcaster, with his first on-air gig as an unpaid host at UC Santa Barbara’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcsb-radio.dreamhosters.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCSB radio station\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t end well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Station veteran Elizabeth Robinson said Hannity was given a one-hour weekly morning slot as a “shock jock,” part of a push for a more commercial sound for the station’s morning shows, at a time when loudmouth DJs like Morton Downey and Howard Stern were tearing up the airwaves in larger markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to be angry and aggressive and insulting,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that, Hannity excelled. But Santa Barbara wasn’t impressed. According to Robinson, at the time a host of KCSB’s “Third World News Review,” listeners quickly started to complain that Hannity’s call-in talk show, “The Pursuit of Happiness,” was racist, sexist and homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In excerpts of one broadcast from April 4, 1989, Hannity and an anti-gay activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/15/flashback-the-repulsive-anti-gay-comments-that/197597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trade inflammatory smears about gay men and homosexual sex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannity calls homosexuals “disgusting people” full of “hatred and bigotry and anti-sexual heterophobia.” When Jody May (now Jody May-Chang), the lesbian host of another KCSB show, called in to comment, Hannity and his guest insulted her — and her newborn son — with a vulgar crack about artificial insemination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson said that, for the station’s governing board, the attack on a fellow host was the last straw. KCSB fired Hannity that June, just weeks before the start of the next academic quarter, when he would have had to apply for renewal under the student-run station’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hannity wasn’t going to go without a fight. Robinson recalled Hannity trying to physically force his way into the studio when she and other hosts were on air countering his claims. He was repelled by students who held him back with a strategically placed cabinet, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.com/news/2017/apr/27/sean-hannity/\">From Isla Vista to Trump’s Ear: How Santa Barbara Propelled Sean Hannity to Fame and Fortune\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.com/news/2017/apr/27/sean-hannity/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://independent.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2017/04/27/19890622_Indy_Sean_Hannity_KCSB_t958.jpg?fef15e12b784e9bbb22bf3f2924819218cda3d1a\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Hannity contacted the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), asking for help defending his right to free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to thrash it out,” said Stewart Holden, a Santa Barbara attorney on the ACLU’s local chapter board. “But … even those who were most passionate and most focused on gay rights, we all agreed that this was a First Amendment issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Barbara is a public institution, and so sacking Hannity for his views amounted to suppression of free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Holden said, UCSB could have avoided a First Amendment case entirely had they fired Hannity for his behavior, rather than for his show’s content. But in the event, Holden took the case for the ACLU, and went back to the university, demanding Hannity’s show be reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannity could have gone back on the Santa Barbara airwaves — but he had other plans. He turned down the offer of a new show, and riding on the publicity from the controversy, soon landed a paid gig at Alabama’s conservative WVNN radio. The rest is history. Hired by Fox News in 1996, Hannity has become one of U.S. media’s most influential and controversial pundits, with an average 3.2 million viewers a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I wish he weren’t there? Probably,” Robinson said. “Am I amused, however, when I’m covering a convention when I hear Sean shouting at me saying ‘Hey, hey, how are you?’ Although he never remembers my name, which is OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she sees Hannity’s tip of the hat to KCSB for launching his career as a “left-handed compliment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He credits us for that – or discredits us, as the case may be,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holden is no Hannity fan, but he describes himself as a “free speech purist” and said he’s proud of his work on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it’s very easy to be principled when your principles are aligned with your preferences and where the speech that you’re defending is something you agree with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot harder when it’s speech that you don’t agree with. I’m proud of our chapter for supporting Mr. Hannity, despite the fact that nobody on the chapter board liked what he had to say in this show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Hannity, he doesn’t deny or defend the statements that got him fired from KCSB in 1989. But he now says they do not reflect his views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement distributed by Fox News, Hannity recalled the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 30 years ago when I was starting out in radio in my 20’s, I interviewed a controversial guest who made several incendiary comments. I was young and stupid with no clue how to do a show. I’m actually very libertarian on social issues and people’s personal lives … and yes I freely admit the comments in my 20s were ignorant and embarrassing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that, Hannity excelled. But Santa Barbara wasn’t impressed. According to Robinson, at the time a host of KCSB’s “Third World News Review,” listeners quickly started to complain that Hannity’s call-in talk show, “The Pursuit of Happiness,” was racist, sexist and homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In excerpts of one broadcast from April 4, 1989, Hannity and an anti-gay activist \u003ca href=\"https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/15/flashback-the-repulsive-anti-gay-comments-that/197597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trade inflammatory smears about gay men and homosexual sex\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannity calls homosexuals “disgusting people” full of “hatred and bigotry and anti-sexual heterophobia.” When Jody May (now Jody May-Chang), the lesbian host of another KCSB show, called in to comment, Hannity and his guest insulted her — and her newborn son — with a vulgar crack about artificial insemination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson said that, for the station’s governing board, the attack on a fellow host was the last straw. KCSB fired Hannity that June, just weeks before the start of the next academic quarter, when he would have had to apply for renewal under the student-run station’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hannity wasn’t going to go without a fight. Robinson recalled Hannity trying to physically force his way into the studio when she and other hosts were on air countering his claims. He was repelled by students who held him back with a strategically placed cabinet, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.com/news/2017/apr/27/sean-hannity/\">From Isla Vista to Trump’s Ear: How Santa Barbara Propelled Sean Hannity to Fame and Fortune\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.com/news/2017/apr/27/sean-hannity/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://independent.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2017/04/27/19890622_Indy_Sean_Hannity_KCSB_t958.jpg?fef15e12b784e9bbb22bf3f2924819218cda3d1a\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Hannity contacted the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), asking for help defending his right to free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to thrash it out,” said Stewart Holden, a Santa Barbara attorney on the ACLU’s local chapter board. “But … even those who were most passionate and most focused on gay rights, we all agreed that this was a First Amendment issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Barbara is a public institution, and so sacking Hannity for his views amounted to suppression of free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Holden said, UCSB could have avoided a First Amendment case entirely had they fired Hannity for his behavior, rather than for his show’s content. But in the event, Holden took the case for the ACLU, and went back to the university, demanding Hannity’s show be reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannity could have gone back on the Santa Barbara airwaves — but he had other plans. He turned down the offer of a new show, and riding on the publicity from the controversy, soon landed a paid gig at Alabama’s conservative WVNN radio. The rest is history. Hired by Fox News in 1996, Hannity has become one of U.S. media’s most influential and controversial pundits, with an average 3.2 million viewers a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do I wish he weren’t there? Probably,” Robinson said. “Am I amused, however, when I’m covering a convention when I hear Sean shouting at me saying ‘Hey, hey, how are you?’ Although he never remembers my name, which is OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she sees Hannity’s tip of the hat to KCSB for launching his career as a “left-handed compliment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He credits us for that – or discredits us, as the case may be,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holden is no Hannity fan, but he describes himself as a “free speech purist” and said he’s proud of his work on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it’s very easy to be principled when your principles are aligned with your preferences and where the speech that you’re defending is something you agree with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot harder when it’s speech that you don’t agree with. 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"content": "\u003cp>The parents who opposed the sex education curriculum were all dressed in white, the color associated with virginal brides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connotations of their clothing may have been unintentional, but parents were definitely sending a message. They wanted the Fremont Unified School District Board members to see a wave of white standing in clear opposition to the school district’s proposal for comprehensive sex education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On two Wednesdays in March, hundreds of parents showed up to the school board meetings to oppose a curriculum they fear is more titillating than educational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board voted to approve updating their sex education policy, but they have yet to decide whether to approve the proposed curriculum as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff that they talk about is, in my opinion, very, very inappropriate,” said parent Danny Hsu. “In fourth grade, they are going to start talking about erections, they are going to talk about wet dreams. In fifth grade, they actually talk about if the male and female have sexual intercourse than the penis is inserted into the vagina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu said his son, who is in fifth grade, is too young for these explicit details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School Board said it is updating its sex education curriculum in order to come into compliance with a California State law that was rolled out in 2016. That policy, called the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a>, set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not require that sex education be taught before seventh grade, but Fremont has traditionally taught a version of it to fourth through sixth graders, said Denise Herrmann, the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Instruction. She said for Fremont to be in compliance with state law, no matter the grade sex ed is taught in, you must comply with state set guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no decision on our part to say we believe this content should be at fourth grade,” said Herrmann. “What we used is the document that’s published by the State of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some parents think the information is extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really terribly shocked, like why should my fourth grade daughter know about spontaneous erections and then wet dreams?” asked parent Sunitha Devi Gopalan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” Devi Gopalan said. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Hsu and Devi Gopalan are, like the overwhelming majority of parents who showed up in force to voice their concerns, Asian-Americans. Fremont, like other Silicon Valley suburbs, is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OF-RACE-AND-PLACE-Little-Asia-Fremont-2834791.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnoburb\u003c/a>. More than half of the city’s residents have Asian ancestry, the majority from China or South Asia. Even more significant, Asian-Americans make up 70 percent of the student population in the Fremont Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural differences, many parents said, play a role in their opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parent Sylvia Wong the lesson plans taught to elementary students before the proposed updates were already too much. There is an option to opt out of all sex ed classes, but Wong said it didn’t work and her daughter found out what was being taught anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, ‘Mom I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence’,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that I was really angry,” she said. “Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising her child with traditional cultural beliefs is important to Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the new lesson plans will further impact her ability to teach her child about sex in a way consistent with cultural beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love making positions,” Wong said. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it, I’m 45-years-old, I don’t want my ten-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she actually liked the old curriculum for her kids, but she is worried the new one is just teaching kids to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leena Yin, who graduated from Fremont’s Mission San Jose High School a few years ago and is now a sexual health educator, said these fears are unfounded. She said teaching kids about sex can actually prevent sexual activity, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that when folks hear these words, their alarm bells go off,” she said. “What I think they don’t understand is that sex education is really about children understanding their own bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin says her own sex education in Fremont’s schools was inadequate. That is what brought her to these school board meetings to advocate for the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin sat with a cluster of sex education advocates. The color they wore to flag their support for the curriculum was green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also dressed in green was Yasi Safinya-Davies, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE,\u003c/a> a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence. She said her organization works with a lot of young people who tell her, “we don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality. We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent herself, she said she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” Safinya-Davies said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safinya-Davies pauses, “Is the assumption that people who are for sex ed are interested in sexualizing our children?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not about sexualizing kids, Safinya-Davies said, it is about being realistic about what is happening within their own bodies, and what information is out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter your cultural heritage, all kids now live in the age of the internet, just a click away from porn. The internet, Safinya-Davies said, does not teach consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another argument pro-sex education advocates like Safinya-Davies make about teaching fourth through sixth graders about erections and nocturnal emissions, or wet dreams, is that those are the grades in which young people are experiencing puberty, if not before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Purabi Ghosh is concerned by the fourth through sixth graders being taught all this in co-ed classes. “Girls are more comfortable with girls, and boys are more comfortable learning about this with boys,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was one point on which the school board changed course. Now those classes will be same-sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh said she understands how complex this is, and she approves of parts of the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telling them about puberty, teaching them about respect, accepting others, not bullying, that’s absolutely on the go,” she said. But pictures that depict sex acts go to far, “this is like exposing them to an inappropriate toy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh also understands that there is a generational divide. She asked her older son, a junior in high school, if he would like to speak out against the sex education lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said would you like to be speaker, he said, ‘I’d like to speak from the opposing side’,” she shakes her head and smiles. “And I completely get where he’s coming from. He’s having a lot of his friends come out now, who are accepting their diverse sexuality not, not a polar sexuality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a subtler part of this controversy. Sex education advocates say, lurking beneath the fears some parents have is homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sameer Jha\u003c/a> is a 16-year-old who is now at a private high school in Oakland. He lives in Fremont and attended elementary and middle school there. He is also the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theempathyalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Empathy Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School Board meeting. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jha said he was bullied constantly for being “feminine.” Jha came out as queer to his family and friends, which he describes as a hard thing to do in his Desi community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first his mother had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases. There’s so much stigma in our community,” said Hussain, Jha’s mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is a huge supporter of her son, and his biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. “I didn’t even know that word existed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because there are so fearful of diversity, and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha is not the only person who spoke about the difficulties of navigating Fremont schools with a queer identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was younger, I felt there was nothing good about being queer in school spaces,” said Anthony Prickett, a 22-year-old who attended Fremont public schools. “I oftentimes felt very lonely when I was younger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Prickett addressed the school board, he declared himself to be a proud, “gay Chinese-American Christian.” In response, someone in the crowd of white clad parents yelled out “No!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quite often we pit Chinese-Americans and Christians against gay people,” Prickett said. “When in reality there have always been, and will always be, Chinese Christian gay people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said he respects the need to keep cultural traditions alive, but not at the expense of inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes we think as Chinese-American’s that we have to sustain our culture,” he said. “Instead of seeing culture as something that’s ever transforming, ever moving forward, ever growing more loving and caring as a community, we see it as the endless sustaining and reiteration of traditional values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional values, he said, are “understood as values of purity and the ostracization of those who do not conform to a very particular idea of what it means to be Chinese-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said there are more ways than one to be Chinese-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said the battle over sex education in Fremont is not about exclusion of the LGBTQ community in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about LGBTQ,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he supports diversity and the LGBTQ community. What he is against is lessons he thinks are too sexually explicit for his ten-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still believe that a ten-year-old is innocent,” he said. “I still believe that as a parent it is my duty to preserve that innocence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshi worries about more than just the fourth through sixth grade lessons. “At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ and sex education advocates argue that in order for the lessons to be inclusive for all kids, sex and sexuality needs to be discussed and destigmatized, including sex that may be practiced by those with diverse sexualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they said one reason to believe homophobia and transphobia are lurking behind the pushback against sex ed is the involvement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pacific-justice-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/a> has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/a>, for, among other things, their support of gay conversion therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s ACLU is involved\u003c/a> on the pro-comprehensive sex education side of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">Similar controversies\u003c/a> have played out in other local school districts with large Asian-American populations. In Cupertino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parents successfully blocked a new sex education curriculum. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, the Fremont Unified School District Board will decide what exactly the curriculum will include.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the larger meanings behind flash points like these sex ed debates, may take longer to unpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that the political power bloc of Asian-Americans is growing in cities like Fremont. In the meeting, parents threatened school board members who spoke positively about the sex ed curriculum with recall campaigns and promises to vote them out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also emerging is a subtle intergenerational divide between immigrant Asian-American parents and their children. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu said his son, who is in fifth grade, is too young for these explicit details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fremont Unified School Board said it is updating its sex education curriculum in order to come into compliance with a California State law that was rolled out in 2016. That policy, called the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2015/sex-ed-to-become-mandatory-in-grades-7-12-in-california/88248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Healthy Youth Act\u003c/a>, set some of the most progressive sex ed requirements in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not require that sex education be taught before seventh grade, but Fremont has traditionally taught a version of it to fourth through sixth graders, said Denise Herrmann, the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Instruction. She said for Fremont to be in compliance with state law, no matter the grade sex ed is taught in, you must comply with state set guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no decision on our part to say we believe this content should be at fourth grade,” said Herrmann. “What we used is the document that’s published by the State of California, that’s endorsed by pediatricians and by experts on puberty health and development, to help us make those grade level placements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some parents think the information is extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really terribly shocked, like why should my fourth grade daughter know about spontaneous erections and then wet dreams?” asked parent Sunitha Devi Gopalan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much details for them to digest,” Devi Gopalan said. “It’s actually going to kill their innocence, that’s what I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Hsu and Devi Gopalan are, like the overwhelming majority of parents who showed up in force to voice their concerns, Asian-Americans. Fremont, like other Silicon Valley suburbs, is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OF-RACE-AND-PLACE-Little-Asia-Fremont-2834791.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnoburb\u003c/a>. More than half of the city’s residents have Asian ancestry, the majority from China or South Asia. Even more significant, Asian-Americans make up 70 percent of the student population in the Fremont Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural differences, many parents said, play a role in their opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parent Sylvia Wong the lesson plans taught to elementary students before the proposed updates were already too much. There is an option to opt out of all sex ed classes, but Wong said it didn’t work and her daughter found out what was being taught anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me one day, ‘Mom I know all these things already. Because kids who attended the class talk about things like, it’s so gross, that just took away my innocence’,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that I was really angry,” she said. “Because you think that you can opt out and protect your child, and raise her up in a more traditional and conservative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising her child with traditional cultural beliefs is important to Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes the new lesson plans will further impact her ability to teach her child about sex in a way consistent with cultural beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even talk about love making positions,” Wong said. “They talk about sexual intercourse, anal sex. These things, I’m even ashamed to talk about it, I’m 45-years-old, I don’t want my ten-year-old girl to be involved in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Mina Naveed said she actually liked the old curriculum for her kids, but she is worried the new one is just teaching kids to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are very curious minds,” she said. She described her daughter as always wanting to try the experiments she learns in science class at home. “So imagine they are learning about oral sex and anal sex in classrooms and then they are going out to experiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leena Yin, who graduated from Fremont’s Mission San Jose High School a few years ago and is now a sexual health educator, said these fears are unfounded. She said teaching kids about sex can actually prevent sexual activity, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that when folks hear these words, their alarm bells go off,” she said. “What I think they don’t understand is that sex education is really about children understanding their own bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin says her own sex education in Fremont’s schools was inadequate. That is what brought her to these school board meetings to advocate for the new curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yin sat with a cluster of sex education advocates. The color they wore to flag their support for the curriculum was green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also dressed in green was Yasi Safinya-Davies, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://save-dv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAVE,\u003c/a> a Fremont-based nonprofit that provides support to victims of domestic violence. She said her organization works with a lot of young people who tell her, “we don’t have adults in our lives who are having earnest open conversations about our relationships, about our sexuality. We didn’t even know what consent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a parent herself, she said she is sympathetic with the opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely understand the concern that parents have around this curriculum,” Safinya-Davies said. “Because if you didn’t grow up learning about your sexuality, and certainly not in a comprehensive way, this is all new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safinya-Davies pauses, “Is the assumption that people who are for sex ed are interested in sexualizing our children?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not about sexualizing kids, Safinya-Davies said, it is about being realistic about what is happening within their own bodies, and what information is out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single parent in this room who knows what it’s like to grow up and have a curiosity about your body and type that into a google search,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter your cultural heritage, all kids now live in the age of the internet, just a click away from porn. The internet, Safinya-Davies said, does not teach consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another argument pro-sex education advocates like Safinya-Davies make about teaching fourth through sixth graders about erections and nocturnal emissions, or wet dreams, is that those are the grades in which young people are experiencing puberty, if not before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Purabi Ghosh is concerned by the fourth through sixth graders being taught all this in co-ed classes. “Girls are more comfortable with girls, and boys are more comfortable learning about this with boys,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was one point on which the school board changed course. Now those classes will be same-sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh said she understands how complex this is, and she approves of parts of the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telling them about puberty, teaching them about respect, accepting others, not bullying, that’s absolutely on the go,” she said. But pictures that depict sex acts go to far, “this is like exposing them to an inappropriate toy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghosh also understands that there is a generational divide. She asked her older son, a junior in high school, if he would like to speak out against the sex education lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said would you like to be speaker, he said, ‘I’d like to speak from the opposing side’,” she shakes her head and smiles. “And I completely get where he’s coming from. He’s having a lot of his friends come out now, who are accepting their diverse sexuality not, not a polar sexuality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a subtler part of this controversy. Sex education advocates say, lurking beneath the fears some parents have is homophobia and transphobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cadiversityconference.com/2018/norcal/bio-sameer-jha.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sameer Jha\u003c/a> is a 16-year-old who is now at a private high school in Oakland. He lives in Fremont and attended elementary and middle school there. He is also the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theempathyalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Empathy Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_4465-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sameer Jha and his mother, Charmaine Hussain, at the Fremont Unified School Board meeting. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jha said he was bullied constantly for being “feminine.” Jha came out as queer to his family and friends, which he describes as a hard thing to do in his Desi community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very scary,” he said. “Being LGBTQ plus was seen as taboo and I was the first person to come out in my local South Asian community here in Fremont.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first his mother had a hard time with his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had so many fears, so many biases. There’s so much stigma in our community,” said Hussain, Jha’s mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Hussain is a huge supporter of her son, and his biggest cheerleader. As a Pakistani immigrant, she said she had to learn what it meant to be queer. “I didn’t even know that word existed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish sex ed was made available to the parents here,” she said. “I look at the sea of parents who are here in opposition because there are so fearful of diversity, and it makes me really realize how important what my son is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jha is not the only person who spoke about the difficulties of navigating Fremont schools with a queer identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was younger, I felt there was nothing good about being queer in school spaces,” said Anthony Prickett, a 22-year-old who attended Fremont public schools. “I oftentimes felt very lonely when I was younger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Prickett addressed the school board, he declared himself to be a proud, “gay Chinese-American Christian.” In response, someone in the crowd of white clad parents yelled out “No!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quite often we pit Chinese-Americans and Christians against gay people,” Prickett said. “When in reality there have always been, and will always be, Chinese Christian gay people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said he respects the need to keep cultural traditions alive, but not at the expense of inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes we think as Chinese-American’s that we have to sustain our culture,” he said. “Instead of seeing culture as something that’s ever transforming, ever moving forward, ever growing more loving and caring as a community, we see it as the endless sustaining and reiteration of traditional values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional values, he said, are “understood as values of purity and the ostracization of those who do not conform to a very particular idea of what it means to be Chinese-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prickett said there are more ways than one to be Chinese-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Salil Joshi said the battle over sex education in Fremont is not about exclusion of the LGBTQ community in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about LGBTQ,” Joshi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he supports diversity and the LGBTQ community. What he is against is lessons he thinks are too sexually explicit for his ten-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still believe that a ten-year-old is innocent,” he said. “I still believe that as a parent it is my duty to preserve that innocence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshi worries about more than just the fourth through sixth grade lessons. “At the seventh grade there is a possibility that oral and anal sex may be discussed in class, I don’t understand why that is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ and sex education advocates argue that in order for the lessons to be inclusive for all kids, sex and sexuality needs to be discussed and destigmatized, including sex that may be practiced by those with diverse sexualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they said one reason to believe homophobia and transphobia are lurking behind the pushback against sex ed is the involvement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pacific-justice-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pacific Justice Institute\u003c/a> has been labeled a hate group by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center\u003c/a>, for, among other things, their support of gay conversion therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhealthcenters.org/healthlearning/reproductivehealth/sexual-health-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s ACLU is involved\u003c/a> on the pro-comprehensive sex education side of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/pji-convinces-school-district-to-wait-with-regard-to-sex-ed-curriculum\">Similar controversies\u003c/a> have played out in other local school districts with large Asian-American populations. In Cupertino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/2017/04/148151/cupertino-school-district-sex-ed-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parents successfully blocked a new sex education curriculum. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks, the Fremont Unified School District Board will decide what exactly the curriculum will include.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the larger meanings behind flash points like these sex ed debates, may take longer to unpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that the political power bloc of Asian-Americans is growing in cities like Fremont. In the meeting, parents threatened school board members who spoke positively about the sex ed curriculum with recall campaigns and promises to vote them out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also emerging is a subtle intergenerational divide between immigrant Asian-American parents and their children. Some of whom are growing up with diverse ideas of what it means to be Asian-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in Oakland, Jeffrey Cheung felt like he lived in two different worlds: in one, he was gay, and in the other, he was a skateboarder. It was clear to him that the two didn’t mix. Nobody else knew he was gay, but when he went to the skatepark, other skaters threw around the word ‘gay’ as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would get called like ‘faggot’ a lot, or like ‘that’s so gay’ and like ‘you’re gay’,” Cheung tells me. “It’s very homophobic. And not very welcoming. And I remember feeling very ashamed about myself and sexuality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Cheung was 18, he decided to stop skating. It was just too hard to live in both worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11653059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity founder Jeffrey Cheung is also an artist. He paints skateboard decks with inclusive images of genders and sexualities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Ramirez grew up in Southern California, but he also lived in those two worlds. In high school he \u003ci>wanted\u003c/i> to try skateboarding, but says he was “too afraid to experience what would happen” if anyone found out he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez remembers the day he met Cheung at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!” Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made ‘zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity’s queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The first one was just amazing, so many people came,” Cheung recalls. “And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity’s queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I’ve never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like ‘here’s water’, and…it’s unbelievable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people — skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight — who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BWqPkXYDwUp/?taken-by=unityskateboarding\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards’ new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: “I’m a skateboarder and I’m a queer, and then I’m also female and… I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom like hated it,” she says. “She thought girls shouldn’t be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like ‘I’m going to skate anyway.’ So I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn’t think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. He wouldn’t have felt so alone and ashamed of being gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Unity Skateboards, Cheung says he hopes he’s making it a little easier for the next generation of young people to find acceptance — at school, at home, and at the skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>On March 4, 2017 Jeffrey Cheung and Unity Press will be hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/riso-printing-unity-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zine making workshop\u003c/a> at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!” Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made ‘zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity’s queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The first one was just amazing, so many people came,” Cheung recalls. “And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity’s queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I’ve never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like ‘here’s water’, and…it’s unbelievable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people — skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight — who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: “I’m a skateboarder and I’m a queer, and then I’m also female and… I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom like hated it,” she says. “She thought girls shouldn’t be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like ‘I’m going to skate anyway.’ So I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn’t think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. 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Why was it important to tell her story, too?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: It felt incredibly important to tell her story because nobody cared. She would frequently be referred to as \"the transient who was bludgeoned to death in Oakley Park.\" That's her legacy, and it became glaringly disgusting to me when the Michael Jackson trial was occurring. His trial happened in Santa Maria at the same courthouse where Tommy Martinez was brought to trial for murdering Sophia Torres and attacking a number of local women, including myself. There was minimal concern for her death. The Jackson case drew international attention and it made me incredibly sad that this woman had such a difficult life from birth. And then [she] endured such a degrading, humiliating death, and that even in death, she was still nobody. In some ways I wanted to make her somebody, at least in death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you see writing about your assault as a way to take back power or be able to tell your side of the story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: Not necessarily. I don't treat writing as something that's particularly cathartic. In fact, it was really painful and really difficult and I think I actually retraumatized myself at times, because I had to visit certain legal documents that detailed the murder of Sophia Torres. There were details that I did not know about her murder that now live in my memory, that I now have to reconcile and reckon with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk about the title of the book, \"Mean.\" The word can translate into vicious or aggressive. Why did you decide to call the book \"Mean\"?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I like really biting short direct titles. And the book is, in some senses, a celebration of feminine meanness and girlish pettiness and malice. Quite frequently there are anecdotes in the book where girls are engaging in recreational meanness to bond. But in addition to referring to that sort of meanness, I'm also using the word \"mean\" as a shorthand for cruelty. Because the book is also largely a meditation on the nature of cruelty. And on the impact of cruelty. The book is also a meditation on meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The structure of the book is so interesting, because some of the chapters are just a few words or sentences long. Also the arc of \"Mean\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>doesn't follow a literal timeline.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: The structure is meant to give just enough chronology to the reader so that they can trace the vestiges of a linear narrative. But the linear narrative has been disrupted by something: violence. In particular, [this is evident] by beginning the book with such a violent story. I don't inform the reader what my connection to this story is and that's intended to reflect the symptoms of PTSD, particularly the intrusive symptoms where one feels as if they're being ambushed by flashbacks and memories. And so that story is intended to sort of serve as a haunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your book is coming out right at the time when this #MeToo movement is gaining steam. How do you feel about the fact that some people are connecting your book with that movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I have very mixed feelings about those connections. On the one hand, I understand why those connections would be drawn because my book focuses largely on misogny and it focuses quite a bit on sexual abuse and sexual violence. However, much of the violence that I describe in the book stands apart from #MeToo's interests, in the sense that much of #MeToo is concerned with how to reform existing relationships. For example, workplace relationships between men and women or relationships that occur within the framework of dating. Whereas the violence that I describe in \"Mean\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>is violence that is largely perpetrated by a stranger. And so that sort of stranger violence doesn't necessarily fit into those frameworks. So I think that a different framework is necessary for discussing that particular kind of violence because the quality and the impact of it are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What are you working on now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I'm working right now on essays about California that focus on regions that haven't necessarily gotten the spotlight. I'm interested in writing about Lampo or Santa Ynez, Santa Maria or Fresno. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aiden and Ethan Dvash-Banks share pretty much everything. The 16-month-old twins were born four minutes apart, from the same womb, to the same fathers, and now they share the same toys in the living room of their Southern California home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is one thing they don't share — Aiden was granted U.S. citizenship and Ethan is living in California on an expired tourist visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? The State Department says only one is the child of an American. One of the kids has the genetic material of his U.S. citizen father; the other, the genetic material from his other father, an Israeli citizen with a green card. Both boys were born in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is now suing the State Department with the help of Immigration Equality, \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationequality.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an LGBTQ immigrant rights organization\u003c/a>. 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The Dvash-Bankses had their marriage license and the kids' birth certificates. Everything was in order. They heard their number called; they walked up to the window and greeted the consular officer, who looked a little surprised, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She started off with, 'Obviously the two of you had to use assisted reproduction in order to have your family,' \" Andrew said. \" 'Tell me more about that. Tell me about who is genetically related to who.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions were invasive, probing, embarrassing, he said. He cried. Elad got quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn't expect this. As the children of an American citizen, the twins should both inherit citizenship. But the couple used a surrogate abroad. Each child has genes from one of his fathers. And while Andrew and Elad never planned to tell anyone which child had Andrew's DNA and which child had Elad's, the State Department asked for DNA tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Andrew says, letters came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One addressed to Aiden, with a U.S. passport saying congratulations, here is your U.S. passport,\" he said. \"And one addressed to my son Ethan, saying we regret to inform you that your application for citizenship has been rejected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite both men being listed on the boys' birth certificates, Elad says, the government made a distinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally black and white, on paper, your kids are different,\" he said. \"That was something that any parent would have a hard time seeing, that the government is discriminating against their kids and treating them differently. It's terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department wouldn't comment for this story because of the pending litigation. But in the department's \u003ca href=\"https://fam.state.gov/FAM/07FAM/07FAM1130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Affairs Manual\u003c/a>, consular officers are instructed to ask for evidence if they suspect a child doesn't have a biological relationship with the U.S. citizen parent, specifically in cases of surrogacy or \"other cases of assisted reproduction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrimination happens in the application, said Aaron Morris, executive director of Immigration Equality. Under the manual's guidance, every single same-sex couple with children would be flagged at a U.S. Embassy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Treating same-sex couples differently in this way is illegal and unconstitutional,\" Morris said. \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>It is possible that an opposite-sex couple, if they disclose that they had used surrogacy, might have the same problem. But the difference is, in every same-sex couple's case the government is asking deeply invasive questions about the makeup and the creation of the children of same-sex couples. To create a blanket rule in this way that targets only one small population of people and every single member of that class of people is discrimination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how it feels to Allison Blixt and her Italian wife, Stefania Zaccari, parents of two boys, one American and one not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It opened old wounds for Allison, who left her life in New York to move to London, where she and her wife could be married before 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was angry for a long time at the United States, she says, feeling like she was kicked out of her own country because she wanted to be with the person she loved. They built their life, had their first child. Stefania gave birth to Lucas using her own egg. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I first moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2016, I was blown away by the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a queer guy who grew up in the Midwest, I had never seen anything like it. Rainbow flags. Rainbow crosswalks. Gay couples everywhere holding hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never seen a gayer place.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But our question asker Bob Girard had a different experience the last time he was in the Castro. He lives in Ventura County with his partner and has visited the Castro a lot over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time we were there it just really seemed to have changed a lot,” Girard said. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what has changed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it just didn’t seem to be as gay as it used to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: \u003cstrong>Is the Castro getting less gay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Castro might look as gay as ever, the rainbow explosion on the streets covers up a changing neighborhood that’s home to fewer and fewer gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634607\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood’s gay residents have been priced out in recent years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s gone from being a gay village to being a tourist destination for people around the world who want to come here and experience a little bit of the gay,” says Don Romesburg, an LGBTQ historian who moved to the Castro in the 1990s after college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long had neighborhoods where LGBTQ people concentrated — North Beach, the Tenderloin, the Polk. But Romesburg says the rise of the Castro in the 1970s was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro and the gay liberation movement gained speed together, creating a more fully realized neighborhood than any of its predecessors. There weren’t just gay bars and bathhouses in the Castro. There were gay barbers and gay doctors and opportunities to do gay activism with gay nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a place in San Francisco, in the world, where gay people can come together as a community and feel like they truly belong and that there’s no real sense of stigma, that’s what made the Castro very special for me as a young guy in my 20s,” Romesburg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a country where gay marriage is legal and acceptance of LGBTQ people is greater than ever, some argue that “gayborhoods” aren’t necessary anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg\" alt='LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. \"There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,\" Romesburg said.' width=\"800\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1180x1558.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-960x1268.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-240x317.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-375x495.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-520x687.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. “There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,” Romesburg said. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Romesburg agrees that this “post-gay thesis” is part of the reason why there are fewer gay people living in the Castro today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a little too optimistic,” he says. “I think it’s too shiny and progress-y.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Romesburg points the finger at a more familiar culprit: gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Romesburg, the mostly gay white men who moved into the Castro in the 1970s transformed the working-class neighborhood. They rebuilt old Victorian homes that lined the streets and opened popular restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-to-late 1990s, the Castro had become an attractive place to live for queer and straight people alike. Romesburg says this led to a second wave of gentrification that pushed older LGBTQ people — including many older gay men with HIV and AIDS — out of the neighborhood. It also raised costs to the point where young LGBTQ people couldn’t afford to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It costs more than $3,800 a month \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on average to rent\u003c/a> an apartment in the Castro, according to one company that tracks rents. The \u003ca href=\"http://sfar.stats.10kresearch.com/infoserv/s-v1/bGWu-SAz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price of a house\u003c/a> in the neighborhood is close to $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romesburg was renting an apartment in the Castro with his partner and their young daughter when they were forced out a few years ago and couldn’t afford to rent anywhere else in the neighborhood. They stayed in San Francisco, moving to the city’s west side, but Romesburg knows of men who have left the Bay Area, moving to Southern California and even out of state after being priced out of the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A community is woven together like a tapestry, and as you pull out the threads of it, the community becomes much more frayed,” Romesburg says. “I think of the Castro in that way. I feel like, as it becomes more of a global tourist destination and less of a community, it loses some of its heart and some of its soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So where is everyone moving?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If fewer LGBTQ people are living in the Castro, where are they living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Girard and his partner are looking at moving to the Bay Area, but they don’t want to live in San Francisco. They do, however, want to make sure they end up somewhere where they’re not the only gay couple around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not necessary that it needs to be a high percentage,” Girard says of where they’d like to move. “I’d just like to see other gay people out in public once in a while and to have more social opportunities than exist where we live now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agents say they’ve seen an exodus of LGBTQ people out of San Francisco and into Oakland. Taylor Sublett, an agent who works with a lot of gay clients, says they’re moving to Oakland for the same reason that everyone else is moving to Oakland: affordability, proximity to San Francisco and more space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike the Castro, there’s no one neighborhood in Oakland where gay people are concentrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same places you see people concentrating from San Francisco period,” Sublett says. “They want to be able to walk to a coffee or be somewhere with that neighborhood-y feel that they’ve been priced out of in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myles Downes is one of those people. He’s a therapist who has been trying to get out of San Francisco for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on October 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on Oct. 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says many of his gay friends have moved out of the city, and it’s become harder to maintain those relationships. He’d love to find a place in Oakland where he’s surrounded by other gay people, but like a lot of people making that move, it’s not his top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when we needed ghettoization because it was safer,” Downes says. “Now we don’t really need that as much. We can go and live in the middle of a predominantly straight community, and people are pretty cool with it and it’s no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other places in the Bay Area with growing queer communities are trying to be a little more purposeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Alameda counties have the highest proportion of same-sex couples in the Bay Area (and in the state, along with Riverside and Santa Cruz) after San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_5YR_S1101&prodType=table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 American Community Survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]“Sonoma County is so spread out. I think if we all got together in one place, it would really show how many folks are here,” says Alisse Cottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage was legal in 2015, Cottle and her partner, Jess Borrayo, put a rainbow flag outside Brew Coffee and Beer House, the cafe they run in downtown Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They opened the restaurant at the beginning of the year without any political agenda. But with the flag now waving proudly outside, Brew started becoming a hub for the area’s growing queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. Brew's owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa's growing queer community.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. Brew’s owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa’s growing queer community. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It just started fitting a need that clearly people wanted it,” Cottle said. “And we didn’t really have to do much of anything but just be open to it and be willing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://letterpeople.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter People\u003c/a>, Sonoma County’s queer professionals group, started holding its meetings at Brew. \u003ca href=\"http://posimages.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positive Images\u003c/a>, the county’s LGBTQ youth group, started doing the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender people are a big part of Santa Rosa’s LGBTQ community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what has changed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it just didn’t seem to be as gay as it used to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: \u003cstrong>Is the Castro getting less gay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Castro might look as gay as ever, the rainbow explosion on the streets covers up a changing neighborhood that’s home to fewer and fewer gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634607\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood’s gay residents have been priced out in recent years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s gone from being a gay village to being a tourist destination for people around the world who want to come here and experience a little bit of the gay,” says Don Romesburg, an LGBTQ historian who moved to the Castro in the 1990s after college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long had neighborhoods where LGBTQ people concentrated — North Beach, the Tenderloin, the Polk. But Romesburg says the rise of the Castro in the 1970s was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro and the gay liberation movement gained speed together, creating a more fully realized neighborhood than any of its predecessors. There weren’t just gay bars and bathhouses in the Castro. There were gay barbers and gay doctors and opportunities to do gay activism with gay nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a place in San Francisco, in the world, where gay people can come together as a community and feel like they truly belong and that there’s no real sense of stigma, that’s what made the Castro very special for me as a young guy in my 20s,” Romesburg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a country where gay marriage is legal and acceptance of LGBTQ people is greater than ever, some argue that “gayborhoods” aren’t necessary anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg\" alt='LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. \"There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,\" Romesburg said.' width=\"800\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1180x1558.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-960x1268.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-240x317.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-375x495.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-520x687.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. “There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,” Romesburg said. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Romesburg agrees that this “post-gay thesis” is part of the reason why there are fewer gay people living in the Castro today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a little too optimistic,” he says. “I think it’s too shiny and progress-y.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Romesburg points the finger at a more familiar culprit: gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Romesburg, the mostly gay white men who moved into the Castro in the 1970s transformed the working-class neighborhood. They rebuilt old Victorian homes that lined the streets and opened popular restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-to-late 1990s, the Castro had become an attractive place to live for queer and straight people alike. Romesburg says this led to a second wave of gentrification that pushed older LGBTQ people — including many older gay men with HIV and AIDS — out of the neighborhood. It also raised costs to the point where young LGBTQ people couldn’t afford to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It costs more than $3,800 a month \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on average to rent\u003c/a> an apartment in the Castro, according to one company that tracks rents. The \u003ca href=\"http://sfar.stats.10kresearch.com/infoserv/s-v1/bGWu-SAz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price of a house\u003c/a> in the neighborhood is close to $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romesburg was renting an apartment in the Castro with his partner and their young daughter when they were forced out a few years ago and couldn’t afford to rent anywhere else in the neighborhood. They stayed in San Francisco, moving to the city’s west side, but Romesburg knows of men who have left the Bay Area, moving to Southern California and even out of state after being priced out of the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A community is woven together like a tapestry, and as you pull out the threads of it, the community becomes much more frayed,” Romesburg says. “I think of the Castro in that way. I feel like, as it becomes more of a global tourist destination and less of a community, it loses some of its heart and some of its soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So where is everyone moving?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If fewer LGBTQ people are living in the Castro, where are they living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Girard and his partner are looking at moving to the Bay Area, but they don’t want to live in San Francisco. They do, however, want to make sure they end up somewhere where they’re not the only gay couple around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not necessary that it needs to be a high percentage,” Girard says of where they’d like to move. “I’d just like to see other gay people out in public once in a while and to have more social opportunities than exist where we live now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agents say they’ve seen an exodus of LGBTQ people out of San Francisco and into Oakland. Taylor Sublett, an agent who works with a lot of gay clients, says they’re moving to Oakland for the same reason that everyone else is moving to Oakland: affordability, proximity to San Francisco and more space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike the Castro, there’s no one neighborhood in Oakland where gay people are concentrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same places you see people concentrating from San Francisco period,” Sublett says. “They want to be able to walk to a coffee or be somewhere with that neighborhood-y feel that they’ve been priced out of in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myles Downes is one of those people. 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Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on Oct. 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says many of his gay friends have moved out of the city, and it’s become harder to maintain those relationships. He’d love to find a place in Oakland where he’s surrounded by other gay people, but like a lot of people making that move, it’s not his top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when we needed ghettoization because it was safer,” Downes says. “Now we don’t really need that as much. We can go and live in the middle of a predominantly straight community, and people are pretty cool with it and it’s no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other places in the Bay Area with growing queer communities are trying to be a little more purposeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Alameda counties have the highest proportion of same-sex couples in the Bay Area (and in the state, along with Riverside and Santa Cruz) after San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_5YR_S1101&prodType=table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 American Community Survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“Sonoma County is so spread out. 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Brew's owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa's growing queer community.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. 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