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She was backed up by a count-down clock hanging on the wall, reminding the volunteers that only three days and 20 hours remained until parade time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11528136,11528135,11528132,11528129\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of putting on floral sheeting and trim and things like that,” said artist Yulia Rashkovskaya as she prepped an enchanted forest-themed float. “There’s a lot of fabrication: making these giant flowers, making the lips, making this tree out of styrofoam and wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay pride parades have always been a combination of fun, pride and politics. In 1978, gay activist Harvey Milk led parade protests against Proposition 6, the so-called Briggs Initiative that would have banned openly gay school teachers in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>South Bay Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a28.asmdc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Low\u003c/a>, D-Campbell, and Los Angeles Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://sd33.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ricardo Lara\u003c/a>, D-Bell Gardens, were in a mischievous mood when they stopped by KQED's Sacramento bureau recently to talk about their paths to the State Legislature as openly gay men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/329042602\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low is chair of the Legislature's LGBT caucus and Lara is vice chair. Both men arrived wearing appropriately lavender ties, and Low playfully sat on Lara's lap to pose for a photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't always so easy to be public about their sexual orientation. Low remembers his first campaign for local office more than a decade ago. At the time, many of his friends knew he was gay -- but his parents did \u003cem>not\u003c/em>. That changed after a local reporter covering the race found out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then on the front page of the paper it said 'Evan Low, 21 years old, Chinese American and openly gay runs for city council.' I had to tell them before they read that local paper,\" Low recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Low says, it was hard finding the words to tell his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even in the Chinese culture, the word -- they always said openly gay -- but the translation they would use is 'admits.' 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Ricardo Lara (left) and Assemblyman Evan Low were in a festive mood for LGBT Pride Month. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Low is a fourth-generation Californian, but when he was growing up \"no one talked about LGBT, there was no one on TV so I found myself stumbling through Barnes & Noble getting lost in the gay and lesbian books section.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 34 years old and serving his second term in the Assembly, Low says he’s been shaped by those early experiences in his work as a legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, \u003ca href=\"http://sd33.senate.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Lara\u003c/a>, 42, is unabashedly liberal. He's one of the lead supporters of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 562\u003c/a>, legislation that would help create a single payer (or \"Medicare-for-all\") health care system in California. Lara says as a gay man he feels an obligation to tackle big issues, even when they’re controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand on the shoulders of giants that have come before us in the LGBT caucus that have pushed these big issues,\" Lara said. \"As legislators we need to have those discussions but we also have to figure out how to get this [single payer] right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Low, Lara describes his coming out as overcoming isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Growing up in East L.A., I really didn't see any role models in West Hollywood,\" Lara says. \"All I would see were white men.\" It was only when he went to college that he met other out Latinos, \"with our own gay Latin icons with telenovela stars and singers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara says his coming out was made easier because his youngest brother Vinny came out first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He came out with guns ablazing,\" Lara jokes. \"He was like, 'I don't care; I want to go fashion school.'\" It was a long process, but Lara says his relationship with his father is on firm footing today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As legislators, Low and Lara see part of their job as being open to questions from colleagues about their personal stories and how they relate to their thinking on issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lara puts it, \"I’ve had my Republican colleagues come to me sometimes after a heated debate on something that’s passionate for me and say ‘I get it, I understand.’ Because they understand my story, my upbringing and what I care about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being openly gay also gives their colleagues in the Legislature a safe place to share family stories -- a sounding board for how to support their LGBT children and other family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LGBT caucus was created 15 years ago by former Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://supervisorkuehl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheila Kuehl\u003c/a> and others. Today, the caucus has eight members, including Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes from Riverside County and Assemblymembers Susan Eggman and Sen. Cathleen Galgiani -- both from Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the earliest days of the gay and lesbian rights movement, the leadership was sometimes criticized for being mostly male and white. As Asian and Latino Americans, Low and Lara hope to broaden the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're really showing mainstream gay culture that there's a place for us to integrate all our communities into our LGBT caucus movement,\" Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Low says, it was hard finding the words to tell his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even in the Chinese culture, the word -- they always said openly gay -- but the translation they would use is 'admits.' Like an admission of guilt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11520582\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11520582 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/FullSizeRender-8.jpg 1721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ricardo Lara (left) and Assemblyman Evan Low were in a festive mood for LGBT Pride Month. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Low is a fourth-generation Californian, but when he was growing up \"no one talked about LGBT, there was no one on TV so I found myself stumbling through Barnes & Noble getting lost in the gay and lesbian books section.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 34 years old and serving his second term in the Assembly, Low says he’s been shaped by those early experiences in his work as a legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, \u003ca href=\"http://sd33.senate.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Lara\u003c/a>, 42, is unabashedly liberal. 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Lara says as a gay man he feels an obligation to tackle big issues, even when they’re controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand on the shoulders of giants that have come before us in the LGBT caucus that have pushed these big issues,\" Lara said. \"As legislators we need to have those discussions but we also have to figure out how to get this [single payer] right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Low, Lara describes his coming out as overcoming isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Growing up in East L.A., I really didn't see any role models in West Hollywood,\" Lara says. \"All I would see were white men.\" It was only when he went to college that he met other out Latinos, \"with our own gay Latin icons with telenovela stars and singers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara says his coming out was made easier because his youngest brother Vinny came out first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He came out with guns ablazing,\" Lara jokes. \"He was like, 'I don't care; I want to go fashion school.'\" It was a long process, but Lara says his relationship with his father is on firm footing today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As legislators, Low and Lara see part of their job as being open to questions from colleagues about their personal stories and how they relate to their thinking on issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lara puts it, \"I’ve had my Republican colleagues come to me sometimes after a heated debate on something that’s passionate for me and say ‘I get it, I understand.’ Because they understand my story, my upbringing and what I care about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being openly gay also gives their colleagues in the Legislature a safe place to share family stories -- a sounding board for how to support their LGBT children and other family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LGBT caucus was created 15 years ago by former Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://supervisorkuehl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheila Kuehl\u003c/a> and others. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of “\u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/news/students/usc-annenberg-student-journalists-kqeds-california-report-publish-joint-investigation\">At Risk in the Trump Era\u003c/a>,” a four-month investigation by USC Annenberg advanced radio students, exploring how vulnerable communities across Southern California react to the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The series profiles individuals burdened by new worries — looking for work, signing up for school, or even deciding whether to publicly express their sexual orientation or religious affiliation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Renee Gross brings us the story of Olive, a transgender 20-something in Los Angeles who says her home life with her parents has gotten more hostile since Trump took office. Olive and her parents have asked only to use their first names. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is parked in front of a grocery store miles away from her home. She pushes back her seat, undoes her pants, and pulls them down over her hairy legs. Then she slips on a skirt, top and jean jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaah, freedom!” she exhales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive calls herself “vampire trans” because she dresses as male during the day, but at night puts on makeup and wears women’s clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-960x709.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive performing stand-up at the Comedy Store. She jokes about her family and her love life, among other things. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She chose the name Olive partly because she used to imagine herself go-go dancing in olive-colored clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home, she goes by her old name: Richard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives with her parents, immigrants in their mid-60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transgender. That is ridiculous for me,” says her mother, Tatiana, who’s from Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive and her mom often fight about Olive’s identity. But there are days they’ll spend time together, even making Olive’s favorite comfort food for breakfast, a Romanian dish of sweet meatballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love him, you know,” Tatiana says while they mix the meat. “But we don’t like what he’s doing, what direction he chooses in life. So we are very worried about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatiana turns to Olive. “What’s your response on this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like you just don’t, you don’t see what my life is like,” says Olive. “I don’t think you will ever really see much of it because we don’t agree on how I should live my own life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something [like] the end of the world, you know, [that] even the president is against and everybody’s against,” says Tatiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-520x404.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive hugs her mother. \u003ccite>(Olive )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive’s parents are big Trump supporters. Olive vehemently opposes the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Olive says that conversation left her feeling depressed. She and her parents are always getting into dramatic fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is trying to save up money to leave her parents’ house. She has a degree in film and she eventually wants to be a cinematographer. For now, she works as a production assistant on a TV show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-800x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1920x1648.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1180x1013.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-960x824.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-240x206.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-375x322.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-520x446.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on nail polish in the car. She says she doesn’t feel like she she’s good at applying it yet, and often feels she ‘overpaints’ her nails. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive says during one recent fight, Tatiana told her she wanted to commit suicide. She just couldn’t deal with her child’s gender identity anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking about her killing herself,” Olive tells me. “And then I was thinking about just me killing myself. Like, who’s going first?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says around the time Trump got elected, she seriously considered killing herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The energy in the house was just kind of upsetting.” Olive recalls. “Right as he got elected, both my parents were screaming and shouting, “Woo-hoo! Go Trump!’ They were just pointing at me like, ‘Haha we won.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the weeks went by after the election, Olive says she just felt alienated. “And then I was in a lot of pain. I decided I didn’t want to deal with it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew of a bridge that she used to go to with her dad. It’s on the L.A. River near a bike path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just left my house one night when it was too much,” she says. “I drove there. I got there. And then my friend called me. And I was like OK, I’ll do this later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive practices her jokes at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months after Olive planned to kill herself, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/22/trump-administration-lifts-transgender-bathroom-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolled back protections\u003c/a> for transgender students in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive talks about it with her dad, Harry, a hefty man with black hair and a receding hairline. At one point in the conversation, Olive brings up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/16/transgender-individuals-face-high-rates--suicide-attempts/31626633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high suicide rate\u003c/a> for transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t like hearing that, right?” she asks her dad. “That trans kids kill themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I always believed that trans is a mental problem,” says Harry. “I don’t get it. For me it is disgusting. Disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says she’s heard comments like this from her parents many times. She just tries to let the words run right through her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not trying to hurt me,” she says. “I don’t need to feel hurt by them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this fight with her father is a little easier than the ones before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting less these days. It’s not as bad now. It’s, like, calmer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s calmer, in part, because the fighting takes so much of out of them. They feel spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1920x1474.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1180x906.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-960x737.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-375x288.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-520x399.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on lipstick in her car. She says she loves the name of it: Rage. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even though both parents thoroughly reject Olive’s gender identity, she wants to take care of them. She can’t remember a time when they weren’t struggling with depression. Olive is an only child, and even as a teenager she worried about her parents’ health and their ability to navigate old age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was responsible for them, like they’re my kids,” she says. “Sometimes it still feels like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, taking care of them still means hiding her identity. At least while she still lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot where she changes into her skirt and blouse, Olive puts on her makeup. She dodges her stubble as she outlines her lips in red. She says she loves the name of her lipstick: Rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intensity of it is nice,” she says. “More than a mask, it’s like armor on my lips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I just feel a little stronger for some reason.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of “\u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/news/students/usc-annenberg-student-journalists-kqeds-california-report-publish-joint-investigation\">At Risk in the Trump Era\u003c/a>,” a four-month investigation by USC Annenberg advanced radio students, exploring how vulnerable communities across Southern California react to the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The series profiles individuals burdened by new worries — looking for work, signing up for school, or even deciding whether to publicly express their sexual orientation or religious affiliation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Renee Gross brings us the story of Olive, a transgender 20-something in Los Angeles who says her home life with her parents has gotten more hostile since Trump took office. Olive and her parents have asked only to use their first names. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is parked in front of a grocery store miles away from her home. She pushes back her seat, undoes her pants, and pulls them down over her hairy legs. Then she slips on a skirt, top and jean jacket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaah, freedom!” she exhales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive calls herself “vampire trans” because she dresses as male during the day, but at night puts on makeup and wears women’s clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-960x709.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive4.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive performing stand-up at the Comedy Store. She jokes about her family and her love life, among other things. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She chose the name Olive partly because she used to imagine herself go-go dancing in olive-colored clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at home, she goes by her old name: Richard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lives with her parents, immigrants in their mid-60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transgender. That is ridiculous for me,” says her mother, Tatiana, who’s from Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive and her mom often fight about Olive’s identity. But there are days they’ll spend time together, even making Olive’s favorite comfort food for breakfast, a Romanian dish of sweet meatballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love him, you know,” Tatiana says while they mix the meat. “But we don’t like what he’s doing, what direction he chooses in life. So we are very worried about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatiana turns to Olive. “What’s your response on this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like you just don’t, you don’t see what my life is like,” says Olive. “I don’t think you will ever really see much of it because we don’t agree on how I should live my own life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something [like] the end of the world, you know, [that] even the president is against and everybody’s against,” says Tatiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11438992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11438992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-800x621.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3-520x404.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive3.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive hugs her mother. \u003ccite>(Olive )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive’s parents are big Trump supporters. Olive vehemently opposes the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Olive says that conversation left her feeling depressed. She and her parents are always getting into dramatic fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive is trying to save up money to leave her parents’ house. She has a degree in film and she eventually wants to be a cinematographer. For now, she works as a production assistant on a TV show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-800x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1920x1648.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-1180x1013.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-960x824.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-240x206.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-375x322.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1-520x446.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on nail polish in the car. She says she doesn’t feel like she she’s good at applying it yet, and often feels she ‘overpaints’ her nails. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olive says during one recent fight, Tatiana told her she wanted to commit suicide. She just couldn’t deal with her child’s gender identity anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking about her killing herself,” Olive tells me. “And then I was thinking about just me killing myself. Like, who’s going first?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says around the time Trump got elected, she seriously considered killing herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The energy in the house was just kind of upsetting.” Olive recalls. “Right as he got elected, both my parents were screaming and shouting, “Woo-hoo! Go Trump!’ They were just pointing at me like, ‘Haha we won.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the weeks went by after the election, Olive says she just felt alienated. “And then I was in a lot of pain. I decided I didn’t want to deal with it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knew of a bridge that she used to go to with her dad. It’s on the L.A. River near a bike path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just left my house one night when it was too much,” she says. “I drove there. I got there. And then my friend called me. And I was like OK, I’ll do this later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive practices her jokes at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months after Olive planned to kill herself, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/22/trump-administration-lifts-transgender-bathroom-guidance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolled back protections\u003c/a> for transgender students in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive talks about it with her dad, Harry, a hefty man with black hair and a receding hairline. At one point in the conversation, Olive brings up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/16/transgender-individuals-face-high-rates--suicide-attempts/31626633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high suicide rate\u003c/a> for transgender youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t like hearing that, right?” she asks her dad. “That trans kids kill themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I always believed that trans is a mental problem,” says Harry. “I don’t get it. For me it is disgusting. Disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olive says she’s heard comments like this from her parents many times. She just tries to let the words run right through her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not trying to hurt me,” she says. “I don’t need to feel hurt by them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this fight with her father is a little easier than the ones before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting less these days. It’s not as bad now. It’s, like, calmer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s calmer, in part, because the fighting takes so much of out of them. They feel spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1920x1474.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-1180x906.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-960x737.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-375x288.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6-520x399.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Olive6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olive puts on lipstick in her car. She says she loves the name of it: Rage. \u003ccite>(Renee Gross)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even though both parents thoroughly reject Olive’s gender identity, she wants to take care of them. She can’t remember a time when they weren’t struggling with depression. Olive is an only child, and even as a teenager she worried about her parents’ health and their ability to navigate old age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was responsible for them, like they’re my kids,” she says. “Sometimes it still feels like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, taking care of them still means hiding her identity. At least while she still lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot where she changes into her skirt and blouse, Olive puts on her makeup. She dodges her stubble as she outlines her lips in red. 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"content": "\u003cp>At her kitchen table in Oakland, Yahaira Carrillo leafs through an old photo album with faded pictures of a little curly-haired girl. The album is precious to her: She saw her baby pictures for the first time only a few years ago, when her aunt brought the album from Mexico. That's because when Carrillo crossed the border as a 7-year-old with her mom, they left almost everything behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up undocumented, first in California, then in Missouri, Carrillo, now 32, was taught to always be on her best behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any sort of wrong moves could result in my parents getting deported or my getting deported, or ending up in foster care,\" Carrillo said. \"[My mom] was like, 'Always be good. We have to be model citizens, model behavior. We have to be as normal, as American, as possible, instead of raising any red flags.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a big risk for undocumented immigrants to admit they don’t have papers, especially now, when President Trump is targeting immigrants and vowing to deport them in record numbers. And yet, in the past decade, more and more young people who were brought to the U.S. as children have been doing just that -- especially those who are LGBTQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-14b-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/04/14/BertProtestImg.jpg\" Title=\"Queer and Undocumented: A Powerful Force in the Dreamer Movement\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Carrillo grew up, she ran into obstacles because of her immigration status. When she went to college, she didn’t qualify for financial aid, so she had to work full time to pay tuition, and it took her nine years to graduate. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1291\" target=\"_blank\">DREAM Act\u003c/a> (an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) would have given undocumented young people like her a path to a green card. But years after it was first introduced in 2001, the bill still hadn’t passed. So Carrillo decided to start lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had reached a point where we had to tell our own stories, we had to speak for ourselves,\" Carrillo said, \"because it was suffocating, you know, living in this place of fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffocating — like when you're gay and in the closet. Carrillo also knew what that felt like. She came out as bisexual when she was 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it’s about living life on your own terms,\" Carrillo said. \"[It's about] you calling the shots about how you move about the world, and facing society head on, in your full truth, in both of those areas. And there's power in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EFIDkoJ1DqthjlKMkv2c098EdOOjUzY8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the most outspoken, undocumented young activists who organized across the country for the DREAM Act are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. After the bill failed in Congress in 2007, they began taking a page from the in-your-face civil disobedience of AIDS and gay rights groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.actupny.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Act Up!\u003c/a> and adopting the practice — advocated by Harvey Milk and other LGBTQ activists — of “coming out” publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to know that queer people exist, and people need to know that undocumented people exist, and that we live next door, and that we brush our teeth, and that we floss, or don’t floss, just like everybody else,\" Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, as four \"Dreamers\" (young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without papers as children) walked from Florida to Washington, D.C., to push for the DREAM Act, a group of undocumented youth in Chicago declared \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.iyjl.org/national-coming-out-of-the-shadows-day/\" target=\"_blank\">National Coming Out of the Shadows\u003c/a>\" month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2010, Carrillo and four other young people decided to put their bodies on the line, in the place they felt was most dangerous for undocumented immigrants: Arizona. Just weeks before, the state had passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1070\u003c/a>, which made it a crime to be undocumented in the state and required police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained, if police suspected they did not have government permission to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11408716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11408716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-800x1008.jpg\" alt=\"Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo, and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-160x202.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-240x302.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-375x473.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-520x655.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yahaira Carrillo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carrillo and the others walked into Sen. John McCain’s office, wearing blue graduation caps and gowns. They sat on the floor, and said they would not leave until the senator agreed to co-sponsor the DREAM Act. Carrillo remembers a police officer tried to talk them out of it. He said he had a son, too, and asked them to think of their future: How would they get a job if they were arrested?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I remember one of us saying, 'But you don’t understand. That’s the problem: that we can’t. We can't get a job,' \" Carrillo recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were risking everything. Four of the young people were arrested that day. Carrillo and two others were turned over to immigration authorities. They were later released but faced possible deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, more protests were happening around the country. A queer immigrant organizer named Prerna Lal, one of the founders of a group called \u003ca href=\"http://dreamactivist.org/\" target=\"_blank\">DreamActivist\u003c/a>, helped shut down Wilshire Boulevard outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what I did because I didn’t feel like there was an alternative for me, or for my friends,\" said Lal, 32. \"For far too long, we had been cast aside, marginalized. Our stories were not seen as important, our lives not important. And I was tired of living that way and I couldn’t live that way. I felt like coming out and organizing was better. If it meant being deported, so be it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it's about living life on your own terms.'\u003ccite>Yahaira Carrillo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lal and her parents came from Fiji and overstayed their visas. By the time her parents got green cards, she was over 21 and couldn't legalize her status with them. Friends suggested she could get a green card another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told many times, 'Get married! Just find a boy!' And I was like, 'Well that’s not me, that’s not who I am,\" Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage wasn't legal at the time, but Lal says many mainstream immigrant rights organizations didn't want to address that obstacle as part of the fight for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We felt like we were being told, 'While your immigrant stories are great, we don’t want to hear about your sexual orientation, that’s something you do in private,' \" said Lal. \"It's kind of funny talking about that now because we have come so far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DREAM Act didn't pass, but the Dreamers started something. After the arrest in McCain's office, more and more people began declaring themselves \"Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic!\" a refrain that has echoes of the chant \"We're here, we're queer, get used to it!\" of radical gay rights organizations. That summer, 21 young undocumented people were arrested while holding sit-ins on Capitol Hill. Almost half of them also identified as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal says the Dreamers risking arrest and deportation caught the attention of the country … and the president. In 2012, President Barack Obama issued temporary protection from deportation for undocumented youth, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca\" target=\"_blank\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a>, known by its initials as DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DACA’s only in place because people fought for it to be in place,\" Lal said. \"Obama didn’t wake up one day and just decide to do it on his own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZLCyTWBblPnSPt0oCqQ2sTyoQroBFeCw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, in the months before Obama's announcement, undocumented youth held sit-ins in his campaign offices, calling for an executive order to stop deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia Escobar worked in the White House as special assistant to President Obama on immigration policy, and she helped craft DACA. She says the administration had been working on the directive for months before its announcement, and was not directly affected by the sit-ins that summer. She acknowledges, however, that the president and others in his administration had been meeting with undocumented youth from the beginning of his first term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that Dreamers have been, you know, unafraid to come out and share their story has had a tremendous impact on the entire immigrant rights movement,\" said Escobar. \"They’re able to humanize the issue, they’re articulate, you see them, you hear them. They moved the ball forward in a really impactful way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 750,000 DACA applications have been approved since the policy began in 2012. During his campaign, Donald Trump vowed to end DACA. But as president, he has backed off somewhat, saying he would deal with people who have DACA with \"great heart,\" and leave it in place, at least for now. At the same time, he's promised to increase deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As of now it seems like DACA youth are safe,\" said Escobar, \"but they don’t live in a vacuum. They’re worried about their parents. They're worried about their siblings, who may not have qualified for DACA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"daScyNAOZZnxuNvGVawHaO8vPl1IyjGA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal and Carrillo now see that fear and uncertainty every day at the East Bay Community Law Center where they both work. Lal is an attorney serving undocumented students at UC Berkeley. After Trump's inauguration, Lal says the number of students seeking legal help went up by 50 percent. She says she has even had clients who have refused needed medical care because they are worried that if their family members come to see them in the hospital, they could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my greatest fears when Trump was elected was not that he would take DACA away, but that he would keep it and use it as a bargaining chip. And that's precisely what I see is happening,\" said Lal. \"A bargaining chip, saying, 'We'll deport everyone else, except for these young, amazing, quote-unquote children.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal fought her own deportation all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, but that same court ended up granting her a path to permanent residency when it ruled that same-sex marriage is legal. That allowed her to obtain a green card through her marriage to her U.S. citizen wife. Carrillo has a visa to live and work here now, too. Both of them say they know some people wonder if, under Trump, “coming out” as undocumented is too great a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s real,\" said Carrillo. \"But at the end of the day we don’t want to go back to the same place we were before. Because that’s basically the same thing we were told in 2010: 'We do this for your safety. We speak for you so you can be safe.' I have no desire to go back to that. I also have no desire to tell people they’re going to be safe. If you are not undocumented, it’s not your place to tell people. It’s just like coming out as queer. You choose when you come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11407603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Blanca Vazquez invites undocumented immigrants to \"come out of the shadows\" at a rally in Oakland in April 2017.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Vazquez, of the East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition, invites undocumented immigrants to 'come out of the shadows' at a rally in Oakland in April 2017. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some undocumented youth and adults are still choosing to come out, and they're still using the chant \"Undocumented! Unafraid!\" at rallies and protests. Sometimes they end by shouting \"Queer, Trans, and Unashamed!\" At a recent rally outside the Alameda County Sheriff's Office in Oakland, people lined up for a turn at a microphone to \"come out of the shadows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Vazquez, 28, helped organize the event. She said she arrived in the U.S. when she was 6 months old and applied for DACA last year, but she's still waiting for approval. Even with all the uncertainty under the Trump administration, she says she'll keep speaking out about her status. She still remembers the first time she saw someone share publicly that they were undocumented. After being told her entire life not to share her immigration status, she was shocked and remembers thinking, \"Does he know what he’s about to do? You just don’t do that. You don’t talk about this kind of thing with strangers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she burst into tears. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had reached a point where we had to tell our own stories, we had to speak for ourselves,\" Carrillo said, \"because it was suffocating, you know, living in this place of fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffocating — like when you're gay and in the closet. Carrillo also knew what that felt like. She came out as bisexual when she was 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it’s about living life on your own terms,\" Carrillo said. \"[It's about] you calling the shots about how you move about the world, and facing society head on, in your full truth, in both of those areas. And there's power in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the most outspoken, undocumented young activists who organized across the country for the DREAM Act are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. After the bill failed in Congress in 2007, they began taking a page from the in-your-face civil disobedience of AIDS and gay rights groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.actupny.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Act Up!\u003c/a> and adopting the practice — advocated by Harvey Milk and other LGBTQ activists — of “coming out” publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to know that queer people exist, and people need to know that undocumented people exist, and that we live next door, and that we brush our teeth, and that we floss, or don’t floss, just like everybody else,\" Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, as four \"Dreamers\" (young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without papers as children) walked from Florida to Washington, D.C., to push for the DREAM Act, a group of undocumented youth in Chicago declared \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.iyjl.org/national-coming-out-of-the-shadows-day/\" target=\"_blank\">National Coming Out of the Shadows\u003c/a>\" month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2010, Carrillo and four other young people decided to put their bodies on the line, in the place they felt was most dangerous for undocumented immigrants: Arizona. Just weeks before, the state had passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1070\u003c/a>, which made it a crime to be undocumented in the state and required police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained, if police suspected they did not have government permission to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11408716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11408716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-800x1008.jpg\" alt=\"Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo, and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-160x202.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-240x302.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-375x473.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-520x655.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yahaira Carrillo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carrillo and the others walked into Sen. John McCain’s office, wearing blue graduation caps and gowns. They sat on the floor, and said they would not leave until the senator agreed to co-sponsor the DREAM Act. Carrillo remembers a police officer tried to talk them out of it. He said he had a son, too, and asked them to think of their future: How would they get a job if they were arrested?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I remember one of us saying, 'But you don’t understand. That’s the problem: that we can’t. We can't get a job,' \" Carrillo recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were risking everything. Four of the young people were arrested that day. Carrillo and two others were turned over to immigration authorities. They were later released but faced possible deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, more protests were happening around the country. A queer immigrant organizer named Prerna Lal, one of the founders of a group called \u003ca href=\"http://dreamactivist.org/\" target=\"_blank\">DreamActivist\u003c/a>, helped shut down Wilshire Boulevard outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what I did because I didn’t feel like there was an alternative for me, or for my friends,\" said Lal, 32. \"For far too long, we had been cast aside, marginalized. Our stories were not seen as important, our lives not important. And I was tired of living that way and I couldn’t live that way. I felt like coming out and organizing was better. If it meant being deported, so be it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it's about living life on your own terms.'\u003ccite>Yahaira Carrillo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lal and her parents came from Fiji and overstayed their visas. By the time her parents got green cards, she was over 21 and couldn't legalize her status with them. Friends suggested she could get a green card another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told many times, 'Get married! Just find a boy!' And I was like, 'Well that’s not me, that’s not who I am,\" Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage wasn't legal at the time, but Lal says many mainstream immigrant rights organizations didn't want to address that obstacle as part of the fight for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We felt like we were being told, 'While your immigrant stories are great, we don’t want to hear about your sexual orientation, that’s something you do in private,' \" said Lal. \"It's kind of funny talking about that now because we have come so far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DREAM Act didn't pass, but the Dreamers started something. After the arrest in McCain's office, more and more people began declaring themselves \"Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic!\" a refrain that has echoes of the chant \"We're here, we're queer, get used to it!\" of radical gay rights organizations. That summer, 21 young undocumented people were arrested while holding sit-ins on Capitol Hill. Almost half of them also identified as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal says the Dreamers risking arrest and deportation caught the attention of the country … and the president. In 2012, President Barack Obama issued temporary protection from deportation for undocumented youth, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca\" target=\"_blank\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a>, known by its initials as DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DACA’s only in place because people fought for it to be in place,\" Lal said. \"Obama didn’t wake up one day and just decide to do it on his own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, in the months before Obama's announcement, undocumented youth held sit-ins in his campaign offices, calling for an executive order to stop deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia Escobar worked in the White House as special assistant to President Obama on immigration policy, and she helped craft DACA. She says the administration had been working on the directive for months before its announcement, and was not directly affected by the sit-ins that summer. She acknowledges, however, that the president and others in his administration had been meeting with undocumented youth from the beginning of his first term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that Dreamers have been, you know, unafraid to come out and share their story has had a tremendous impact on the entire immigrant rights movement,\" said Escobar. \"They’re able to humanize the issue, they’re articulate, you see them, you hear them. They moved the ball forward in a really impactful way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 750,000 DACA applications have been approved since the policy began in 2012. During his campaign, Donald Trump vowed to end DACA. But as president, he has backed off somewhat, saying he would deal with people who have DACA with \"great heart,\" and leave it in place, at least for now. At the same time, he's promised to increase deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As of now it seems like DACA youth are safe,\" said Escobar, \"but they don’t live in a vacuum. They’re worried about their parents. They're worried about their siblings, who may not have qualified for DACA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal and Carrillo now see that fear and uncertainty every day at the East Bay Community Law Center where they both work. Lal is an attorney serving undocumented students at UC Berkeley. After Trump's inauguration, Lal says the number of students seeking legal help went up by 50 percent. She says she has even had clients who have refused needed medical care because they are worried that if their family members come to see them in the hospital, they could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my greatest fears when Trump was elected was not that he would take DACA away, but that he would keep it and use it as a bargaining chip. And that's precisely what I see is happening,\" said Lal. \"A bargaining chip, saying, 'We'll deport everyone else, except for these young, amazing, quote-unquote children.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal fought her own deportation all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, but that same court ended up granting her a path to permanent residency when it ruled that same-sex marriage is legal. That allowed her to obtain a green card through her marriage to her U.S. citizen wife. Carrillo has a visa to live and work here now, too. Both of them say they know some people wonder if, under Trump, “coming out” as undocumented is too great a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s real,\" said Carrillo. \"But at the end of the day we don’t want to go back to the same place we were before. Because that’s basically the same thing we were told in 2010: 'We do this for your safety. We speak for you so you can be safe.' I have no desire to go back to that. I also have no desire to tell people they’re going to be safe. If you are not undocumented, it’s not your place to tell people. It’s just like coming out as queer. You choose when you come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11407603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Blanca Vazquez invites undocumented immigrants to \"come out of the shadows\" at a rally in Oakland in April 2017.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Vazquez, of the East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition, invites undocumented immigrants to 'come out of the shadows' at a rally in Oakland in April 2017. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some undocumented youth and adults are still choosing to come out, and they're still using the chant \"Undocumented! Unafraid!\" at rallies and protests. Sometimes they end by shouting \"Queer, Trans, and Unashamed!\" At a recent rally outside the Alameda County Sheriff's Office in Oakland, people lined up for a turn at a microphone to \"come out of the shadows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Vazquez, 28, helped organize the event. She said she arrived in the U.S. when she was 6 months old and applied for DACA last year, but she's still waiting for approval. Even with all the uncertainty under the Trump administration, she says she'll keep speaking out about her status. She still remembers the first time she saw someone share publicly that they were undocumented. After being told her entire life not to share her immigration status, she was shocked and remembers thinking, \"Does he know what he’s about to do? You just don’t do that. You don’t talk about this kind of thing with strangers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Leading up the inauguration, The California Report magazine is airing letters from California teenagers to the incoming president. They’re some of the more than 12,000 letters collected as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/18/letters-to-our-next-president-from-americas-youth/\">part of a collaboration \u003c/a>between KQED and the National Writing Project. You can search all the letters by topic \u003ca href=\"https://letters2president.org/letters\">here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This one comes from Skyelar, a 10th-grader at Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts in Yuba County.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302599596″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear Future President,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that transgender people don’t have enough policies that help protect their rights. There are no policies that stop a school from suspending or even expelling a child because of their gender expressions. They can also refuse to let them use their preferred bathroom (or) call them by their preferred name. These issues can cause for social harm for the person as well as internal conflict and it may cause emotional struggles such as depression, anxiety or make gender or body dysphoria worse for some who already suffer from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have made a lot of progression towards sexuality and helping to diminish discrimination as much as possible against the gay/lesbian/bisexual community by legalizing marriage and many other steps. But still nothing protects transgender people from the hate of the people in society. Schools, businesses, the regular citizen are all ways transgender people get hate towards them and there is nothing to stop this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not having anything to protect transgender people affects more than a few people. It affects about 1.4 million adults in the us. Young children are being kicked out of schools, their homes and adults are being refused jobs or service in public areas. As a transgender youth I do find my life very hindered by the discrimination I get from my family, school faculty and even other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My home life is very affected by the views my family has and how uncomfortable I make them with the way I am. I get in trouble and stopped when I try to speak to them about it. I also have issues at school, for an entire year one of my teachers refused to call me my preferred name and when he finally told me he couldn’t until it was legally changed or put on roster I asked the staff to change it, they agreed as long as I had my mother’s consent. They changed it and I got my name. A few days after that my teacher saw me go into the boys bathroom and I was called into the principles. We talked and he asked how my mother felt about me, my name, and my pronouns. After going over it he said the teachers could call me my preferred name but not a male. This upset me a lot but I didn’t say anything because I didn’t know what I could do to help the situation, I wasn’t allowed to be referred to as a male until my mother accepted me regardless of my wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was lucky enough to get my name but what would happen if my mother didn’t let me have that either. I would be stuck being seen as a female with my birth name for who knows how long. When this first happened I was greatly affected and fell into a deep depression. One of the things I absolutely want most is to be seen as a male and be comfortable with myself as I already have bad body and gender dysphoria. This issue got me to look into if there were any policies that could protect or help me in my school so I would freely be myself as just another one of the males in the school. I was disappointed to find nothing for me. I am completely positive there are many other teenagers facing problems just as bad and worse than I am and I believe that there should be way more policies helping protect me and so many other transgender people like me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constantly thinking about these issues I have come up with some solutions or steps we could take to a society where transgenders are just looked as normal people. One of these solutions has to do with schools (as most are) I believe we shouldn’t regulate how much acceptance and the treatment that the kids based on what their parents believe. School should be place that the students can freely express who they are and be treated with respect to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately that isn’t the case if schools aren’t thinking about the student and only thinking of what their parents would be okay with. Another idea I have that isn’t for schools is a simple solution that should have been applied from the start. The idea is to make sure that people can not refuse to serve someone based solely on the fact that they are transgender as that wouldn’t be a decent option and argumentatively can be seen in a way such as refusing service to someone just because of their color of their skin. As a part of this it would be important to make sure that transgenders would have all the basic rights that a normal cis-gendered person would. These are only two ideas of so many simple and easy ways to help the transgendered people on their path to equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conclusion we should have more policies protecting transgender people and there are many ways to make that possible from schools, to workplaces to other businesses the lives of so many trans people can be affected in a very positive way without that much change for the rest of society and simple things that could really make a difference in the overall quality of our lives, because we all want to live in a world where everyone is happy and living a life that will be a reflection of the societies strengths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all want that perfect society with no judgment somewhere deep down, and we headed on the road towards that. First with equal rights towards women and people of different skin colors, and more recently the lgb part of the lgbt community. Our next step is to give trangenders the rights they deserve and so desperately want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skyelar\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three thousand miles away from her wife and kids, alone in a Miami hotel room, Kate Kendell is processing Donald Trump’s presidential win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m feeling a sense of foreboding, a feeling much bigger and large spread than anything I’ve ever seen in my 20 to 25-plus years of fighting for equality,” says Kendell, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nclrights.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Center for Lesbian Rights\u003c/a>, headquartered in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after the election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2USTE3L98\">President Barack Obama said\u003c/a> that the nature of democracy is not a straight path. He said that there are zigs and zags. On the heels of Donald Trump’s presidential win, some people will perceive the next steps America takes as steps backward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendell worries it will be more than a step backward, and more like a continuing rollback on progress made by LGBTQ rights groups that could start on day one of Trump’s presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days\">Trump’s 100-day plan, \u003c/a>released by his campaign in October, he will “FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Trump could immediately repeal \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/lgbt.html\">Executive Order 13672\u003c/a>, which explicitly prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminatory hiring practices based on gender or sexual identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A dangerous and enduring threat is what happens if he appoints one and perhaps even two justices to the Supreme Court,” Kendell says. During his campaign, Trump vowed to nominate a ninth Supreme Court justice whose views aligned with deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, a staunch opponent of marriage equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mentioned them [LGBTQ folks] at the Republican National Convention, and everybody said that was so great. I’ve been a supporter,” Trump said in a\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-45th-president-letters-on-the-pot-vote/\"> “60 Minutes” interview Sunday.\u003c/a> When asked if he supports gay marriage, he responded, “These cases have gone to the Supreme Court. It’s settled. I’m fine with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in an interview with \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/01/31/ted-cruz-attacks-donald-trump-financial-record-trump-responds/\">Chris Wallace in January\u003c/a>, Trump said: “[Same-sex marriage] has been ruled upon. It has been there. If I’m a, you know, if I’m elected, I would be very strong on putting certain judges on the bench that I think maybe could change things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the second debate, he reiterated his commitment to appoint a judge who is in line with deceased Justice Scalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s administration could also rescind comprehensive guidance for public schools to treat transgender students in accordance with their gender identity under Title IX. That includes using whatever bathrooms they prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservative anti-LGBTQ group National Organization for Marriage \u003ca href=\"http://www.nomblog.com/41186/\">released an outline of its plan \u003c/a>to help Trump overturn much of the progress LGBTQ rights groups have made in the past eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to taking full advantage of the opportunity we have,” NOM says in the outline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.translifeline.org/\">Trans Lifeline,\u003c/a> a nonprofit that runs a 24-hour hotline for trans people, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Translifeline/status/796851226835120128\">tweeted that its call volume \u003c/a>on the night of the election surpassed the volume for all of November 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year has already been a year when we’ve seen so many trans women of color being murdered in this country,” says Kris Hayashi, executive director of Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://transgenderlawcenter.org\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>. “This vote … is further emboldening the violence and harassment that our community has already been facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-calls-increased-and-accurate-media-coverage-transgender-murders\">24 transgender people have been murdered\u003c/a> in the United States, according to GLAAD, and almost all of the victims were people of color.\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/bakersfield-s-trans-community-demands-justice/article_2ec6295c-236e-5b6c-a65c-efc48ddbcc7a.html\"> Jasmine Sierra, 22,\u003c/a> of Bakersfield, was one of those victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the most important policies that we have achieved won’t be affected [by Trump’s presidency] because the legal basis for our work and other LGBT organizations are very strong,” Hayashi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi says strength in the community comes from many years of surviving hatred and violence. He says the reality is that trans and gender-nonconforming people know how to take care of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going anywhere. We’re still here. We’re going to stay here and do our best to work with our communities,” Hayashi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcenter.org/resources/trans\">Here is a list of resources \u003c/a>for transgender folks put together by the SF LGBT Center.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From comic books to video games, nearly every character you can imagine turned up in Santa Clara over the weekend for the \u003ca href=\"http://gaymerx.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GaymerX GX4\u003c/a> convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LGBTQ-focused event is in its fourth year, and drew about 2,400 people who came for the series of panels, tabletop games, vendors and live shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GaymerX is unique among gaming conventions, because it focuses on creating a safe and inclusive environment for gamers of all identities. LGBTQ gamers say they often experience harassment and discrimination within online chat rooms and at physical gaming spaces like conventions and tournaments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113874 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chakka Corn and her back up dancers perform “Final Fantasy 7.5” during the GX4 Drag Show\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chakka Corn and her backup dancers perform “Final Fantasy 7.5” during the GX4 Drag Show \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New this year was the option for attendees to choose from more than just two genders during registration or when picking up their passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really helping increase dialogue between all of us,” says Victor Phang, who came to GaymerX for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phang, along with two of his friends, all \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosplayed\u003c/a> as gender-bent versions of “Final Fantasy” characters: Nguyen as Rinoa Heartily from “Final Fantasy VIII,” Phang as Beatrix from “Final Fantasy IX,” and Yu as Fang from “Final Fantasy XIII.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113765\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Tuan Nguyen (left), Victor Phang and Sherman Yu all attended GX4 together for the first time this year. All three of them cosplayed as gender-bent version of Final Fantasy characters; Nguyen as Rinoa Heartily from Final Fantasy 8, Phang as Beatrix from Final Fantasy 9, and Yu as Fang from Final Fantasy 13. \" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-1180x813.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-960x662.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuan Nguyen (left), Victor Phang and Sherman Yu all attended GX4 together for the first time this year. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel that there are a lot more new people this year. It’s good to see the community coming out and having more safe spaces to be themselves,” says Michael Todd, who has been to the convention once before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113766\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Todd, cosplaying as Electabuzz, poses for a photo at GX4\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Todd, cosplaying as Electabuzz, poses for a photo at GX4. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113817\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Goldstein (right), Nikki Allamanno and Starla Zamora pose for a photo in their cosplay costumes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-400x291.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-960x699.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Goldstein (right), Nikki Allamanno and Starla Zamora pose for a photo in their cosplay costumes. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gil Goldstein (right), Nikki Allamanno and Starla Zamora all attended GX4 in full cosplay attire. Goldstein dressed as Link from “Legend of Zelda” while Allamanno and Zamora are dressed as Fenris and Isavela from “Dragon Age 2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the best Con that we go to,” says Allamanno. “It’s so inclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113815 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Body painting artist Brandon McGill paints the hand of model Ty Monzingo at GaymerX’s GX4 convention.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Body-painting artist Brandon McGill paints the hand of model Ty Monzingo at GaymerX’s GX4 convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the many attractions at GX4 was the expo hall and indie space where larger gaming companies such as Microsoft and Ubisoft sat alongside up-and-coming indie designers and game developers. Many artists were there as well, including body-painting artist Brandon McGill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon McGill begins painting the hand of model Ty Monzingo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-400x263.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon McGill begins painting the hand of model Ty Monzingo. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video games like “Super Mario Smash Brothers” and “Legend of Zelda” were available to play in the Magfest Arcade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113818\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Unkle (left) and Colin Dettmar play Mario Kart Double Dash in the Magfest Arcade at the GX4 convention.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Unkle (left) and Colin Dettmar play Mario Kart Double Dash in the Magfest Arcade at the GX4 convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sam (center) watches as two of her friends play video games in the Magfest Arcade. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam (center) watches as two of her friends play video games in the Magfest Arcade. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For those gamers who preferred analog to digital, a giant Jenga tower was a delightful throwback to childhood. There was also a tabletop gaming room featuring multiple role-playing and board games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113820\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Gadwood (right) plays a game of Giant Jenga with Alex Meza at the GaymerX GX4 Convention.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Gadwood (right) plays a game of Giant Jenga with Alex Meza at the GaymerX GX4 Convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the physical gaming, however, GaymerX offered panel discussions on a wide variety of topics. Several discussed the best practices for developing new indie games and how to use current video programming software. A few also took a deep look at how games can help build a sense of self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one panel, game critic Katherine Cross and game designer Crystal Frasier discussed how people can discover their identity through the use of games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113821 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Widely published game critic Katherine Cross and writer, game developer, and graphic designer Crystal Frasier speak at a panel on finding identity through gaming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Widely published game critic \u003ca href=\"https://quinnae.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katherine Cross\u003c/a> and writer, game developer and graphic designer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/amazonchique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crystal Frasier\u003c/a> speak at a panel on finding identity through gaming. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Cross and Frasier spoke about the idea that by playing games as children, players are allowed to investigate and experiment with things they may not have a term for or understanding of yet. When it comes to gender and how they perceive themselves in the world, being able to act ideas out in a video game can allow players to “try on” different personas as they develop in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113822 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two cosplayers costumed as Janey Spring (left) and Athena the Gladiator (right) from Borderlands the Presequel hold hands and kiss on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant at the GaymerX Convention. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two cosplayers costumed as Janey Spring (left) and Athena the Gladiator (right) from “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel” hold hands and kiss on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant at the GaymerX Convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two biggest events of the convention were the Cosplay Pageant and the Kitty Powers Drag Show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queens and kings graced the stage during the Kitty Powers Drag Show Saturday night, offering renditions of Lady Gaga’s “Applause” and many popular video game theme songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cap off the weekend’s convention, over 30 contestants danced, catwalked and crawled across the stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113823\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"Mettaton, from the indie role playing video game Undertale, cosplayed on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-400x292.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-1180x862.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-960x701.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mettaton, from the indie role playing video game “Undertale,” cosplayed on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A wide variety of cosplay characters and costumes competed for prizes during the pageant. From sewing, gluing and taping costumes to shading, highlighting and outlining makeup, each one of the cosplayers brought their own personal style to their characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113824 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cosplay character Handsome Jack, from the video game Borderlands: The Presequel, winks and waves on stage during the GX 4 Cosplay Pageant\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosplay character Handsome Jack, from the video game “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel,” winks and waves on stage during the GX 4 Cosplay Pageant \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil Goldstein says, “It’s nice that they have a place that people can come and be themselves — or someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From comic books to video games, nearly every character you can imagine turned up in Santa Clara over the weekend for the \u003ca href=\"http://gaymerx.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GaymerX GX4\u003c/a> convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LGBTQ-focused event is in its fourth year, and drew about 2,400 people who came for the series of panels, tabletop games, vendors and live shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GaymerX is unique among gaming conventions, because it focuses on creating a safe and inclusive environment for gamers of all identities. LGBTQ gamers say they often experience harassment and discrimination within online chat rooms and at physical gaming spaces like conventions and tournaments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113874 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chakka Corn and her back up dancers perform “Final Fantasy 7.5” during the GX4 Drag Show\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs18-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chakka Corn and her backup dancers perform “Final Fantasy 7.5” during the GX4 Drag Show \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New this year was the option for attendees to choose from more than just two genders during registration or when picking up their passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really helping increase dialogue between all of us,” says Victor Phang, who came to GaymerX for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phang, along with two of his friends, all \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosplayed\u003c/a> as gender-bent versions of “Final Fantasy” characters: Nguyen as Rinoa Heartily from “Final Fantasy VIII,” Phang as Beatrix from “Final Fantasy IX,” and Yu as Fang from “Final Fantasy XIII.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113765\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Tuan Nguyen (left), Victor Phang and Sherman Yu all attended GX4 together for the first time this year. All three of them cosplayed as gender-bent version of Final Fantasy characters; Nguyen as Rinoa Heartily from Final Fantasy 8, Phang as Beatrix from Final Fantasy 9, and Yu as Fang from Final Fantasy 13. \" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-400x276.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-1180x813.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs11-960x662.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuan Nguyen (left), Victor Phang and Sherman Yu all attended GX4 together for the first time this year. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel that there are a lot more new people this year. It’s good to see the community coming out and having more safe spaces to be themselves,” says Michael Todd, who has been to the convention once before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113766\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Todd, cosplaying as Electabuzz, poses for a photo at GX4\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs10.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Todd, cosplaying as Electabuzz, poses for a photo at GX4. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113817\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Goldstein (right), Nikki Allamanno and Starla Zamora pose for a photo in their cosplay costumes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-400x291.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs13-960x699.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Goldstein (right), Nikki Allamanno and Starla Zamora pose for a photo in their cosplay costumes. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gil Goldstein (right), Nikki Allamanno and Starla Zamora all attended GX4 in full cosplay attire. Goldstein dressed as Link from “Legend of Zelda” while Allamanno and Zamora are dressed as Fenris and Isavela from “Dragon Age 2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the best Con that we go to,” says Allamanno. “It’s so inclusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113815 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Body painting artist Brandon McGill paints the hand of model Ty Monzingo at GaymerX’s GX4 convention.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs08-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Body-painting artist Brandon McGill paints the hand of model Ty Monzingo at GaymerX’s GX4 convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the many attractions at GX4 was the expo hall and indie space where larger gaming companies such as Microsoft and Ubisoft sat alongside up-and-coming indie designers and game developers. Many artists were there as well, including body-painting artist Brandon McGill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon McGill begins painting the hand of model Ty Monzingo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-400x263.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs07-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon McGill begins painting the hand of model Ty Monzingo. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video games like “Super Mario Smash Brothers” and “Legend of Zelda” were available to play in the Magfest Arcade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113818\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Unkle (left) and Colin Dettmar play Mario Kart Double Dash in the Magfest Arcade at the GX4 convention.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs09-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Unkle (left) and Colin Dettmar play Mario Kart Double Dash in the Magfest Arcade at the GX4 convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sam (center) watches as two of her friends play video games in the Magfest Arcade. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs12-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam (center) watches as two of her friends play video games in the Magfest Arcade. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For those gamers who preferred analog to digital, a giant Jenga tower was a delightful throwback to childhood. There was also a tabletop gaming room featuring multiple role-playing and board games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113820\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Gadwood (right) plays a game of Giant Jenga with Alex Meza at the GaymerX GX4 Convention.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Gadwood (right) plays a game of Giant Jenga with Alex Meza at the GaymerX GX4 Convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the physical gaming, however, GaymerX offered panel discussions on a wide variety of topics. Several discussed the best practices for developing new indie games and how to use current video programming software. A few also took a deep look at how games can help build a sense of self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one panel, game critic Katherine Cross and game designer Crystal Frasier discussed how people can discover their identity through the use of games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113821 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Widely published game critic Katherine Cross and writer, game developer, and graphic designer Crystal Frasier speak at a panel on finding identity through gaming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs14-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Widely published game critic \u003ca href=\"https://quinnae.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katherine Cross\u003c/a> and writer, game developer and graphic designer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/amazonchique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crystal Frasier\u003c/a> speak at a panel on finding identity through gaming. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Cross and Frasier spoke about the idea that by playing games as children, players are allowed to investigate and experiment with things they may not have a term for or understanding of yet. When it comes to gender and how they perceive themselves in the world, being able to act ideas out in a video game can allow players to “try on” different personas as they develop in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113822 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two cosplayers costumed as Janey Spring (left) and Athena the Gladiator (right) from Borderlands the Presequel hold hands and kiss on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant at the GaymerX Convention. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two cosplayers costumed as Janey Spring (left) and Athena the Gladiator (right) from “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel” hold hands and kiss on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant at the GaymerX Convention. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two biggest events of the convention were the Cosplay Pageant and the Kitty Powers Drag Show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queens and kings graced the stage during the Kitty Powers Drag Show Saturday night, offering renditions of Lady Gaga’s “Applause” and many popular video game theme songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cap off the weekend’s convention, over 30 contestants danced, catwalked and crawled across the stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11113823\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"Mettaton, from the indie role playing video game Undertale, cosplayed on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-400x292.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-1180x862.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs03-960x701.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mettaton, from the indie role playing video game “Undertale,” cosplayed on stage during the GX4 Cosplay Pageant. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A wide variety of cosplay characters and costumes competed for prizes during the pageant. From sewing, gluing and taping costumes to shading, highlighting and outlining makeup, each one of the cosplayers brought their own personal style to their characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11113824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11113824 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cosplay character Handsome Jack, from the video game Borderlands: The Presequel, winks and waves on stage during the GX 4 Cosplay Pageant\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/161002_GaymerX_bhs04-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosplay character Handsome Jack, from the video game “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel,” winks and waves on stage during the GX 4 Cosplay Pageant \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil Goldstein says, “It’s nice that they have a place that people can come and be themselves — or someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 518px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/10262_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134989 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/10262_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Neal Gottlieb climbed the tallest mountain in Uganda and planted a rainbow flag in discrimination of newly established anti-gay laws. \" width=\"518\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neal Gottlieb climbed the tallest mountain in Uganda and planted a rainbow flag to protest new anti-gay laws. (Photo courtesy of Neal Gottlieb)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Neal Gottlieb, founder of the Petaluma-based ice cream company Three Twins, is getting international attention after planting a rainbow flag on the tallest mountain in Uganda, protesting the country’s new law that makes homosexual acts punishable by life imprisonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 23, Gottlieb \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152016693936244&set=a.439849436243.224911.556251243&type=1&theater\">posted a picture on his personal Facebook page\u003c/a> of himself, smiling on the snowy 16,763-foot peak next to the flag, along with a letter he penned to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, criticizing the law and daring him to take the flag down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could think of no better way to really stand up and make this issue known,” he says, during an interview with Mina Kim of KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because he feared the ramifications, both for himself and the LGBT community in Uganda, Gottlieb did not share his plans with anyone before the six-day hike to the top, which he reached on April 16. The reaction has been largely positive, he says, but he has also received some unexpected criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of people have said that this doesn’t fit within the guidelines. And as an inexperienced activist, I wasn’t necessarily aware that there was a set of guidelines,” Gottlieb says. “But as I am learning more and more about the activism surrounding this issue, it’s very much a divided group of passionate, caring people that want to see this go away but see different ways to make this go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/147646062&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he has stepped into the world of activism, he feels a responsibility to continue fighting for gay rights in Uganda. Gottlieb is urging people to call their local representatives to pressure Uganda to change the law, and he is supporting other activists’ efforts, including Melanie Nathan’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lgbt-africa-rescue-fund-2#home\">Indiegogo campaign\u003c/a>, which would provide money, allowing persecuted Ugandans to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margherita Peak is not the highest mountain Gottlieb has climbed, but it might be the hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It rained on us every day. We were soaking wet. We were cold,” he says. “It was really an ordeal, but it made getting to the top all the more worthwhile.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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